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Summer’s on hold this week

After what can only be described as one of the most dramatic first few days of June in Maine, things have settled into conditions better described as raw, gloomy and soggy. We went from seeing temps in the 80s and 90s to start the first month of summer, and this week, we’ll be lucky to […]

Posted inEditorials, Opinion

View from Away: Protecting vital US wetlands must remain a federal priority

Back in the 1970s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed an enormous functioning hydraulic model of the Chesapeake Bay. Although long ago replaced by much more accurate computer simulations, there was one extremely valuable lesson passed along to the busloads of schoolchildren who would visit the 14.5-acre indoor facility on Kent Island: How shallow […]