When it comes to hiking poles and your health and safety on the trail, quality matters. Here’s why it’s important, and some tips when buying new poles.
2022
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Ask Maine Audubon: Give those attacking blue jays what they want
Your wildlife questions are answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Mix and match chowder rules
As long as you’ve got the key components – the broth, the star, the chunk and the thickener – you can make chowder of any sort.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: My grandmother’s gift of resilience
Gram’s memoir of her less-than-easy life gives me perspective and reminds me that I am capable of more than I think.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-Eds, Opinion
The View From Here: Hotel rooms no substitute for permanent housing
What Portland is forced to spend for emergency shelter would be enough to develop hundreds of affordable apartments.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Black history essential to the American story
States that want to erase the shameful parts of our history will also erase some of our greatest achievements as a nation.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: To boost comeback hopes, Maine Republicans must campaign as party of solutions
School choice is an example of an idea with broad appeal to voters that’s gained prominence during the pandemic.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Some were saved from the Holocaust with vaccines
Among the medicines that anti-vaxxers compare to Nazi war crimes were those developed by prisoners and enemies of the Third Reich.
Posted inObituaries
Obituary: Conrad Wight
AUGUSTA – Conrad Wight, 88, passed away peacefully on Jan. 31, 2022, surrounded by his children. He was born Dec. 27, …
Posted inObituaries
Obituary: Carmen (Woodside) Stratton
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. – Carmen (Woodside) Stratton, 72, of Midlothian, Va., passed away Jan. 22, 2022 after a brief, devastating illness.
Carmen was …