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Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Maine, News
Maine lobstermen sue sustainability group for defamation over ‘red listing’
Seafood Watch, a program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, unfairly downgraded its evaluation of the Maine lobster fishery last fall, the fishermen say.
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Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Maine, News, Uncategorized
As a Maine distillery grows, so does worry over ‘whiskey fungus’
The black blight is spreading near large distilleries and threatening home values in places such as Kentucky. Now some neighbors of Wiggly Bridge Distillery say the fungus has come to York.
Posted inOn this date
March 13, 1984: 9-year-old Fairfield boy was ‘stuck in a tree and choking’ and rescued, nine left homeless after apartment blaze at apartment house in North Vassalboro, and Winslow council backs a ‘peaceful Russian connection’
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Book review: In ‘Sugaring Off,’ a traumatized teen finds strength in family and the woods
Maine author Gillian French set the young adult novel in New Hampshire.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Recycled bourbon barrels are adding value, and savor, to the maple syrup industry
The barrels get re-used. The maple syrup gets gorgeously flavored. Win-win.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
What impact will this winter’s waffling weather have on your garden this summer?
The answer has to do in part with how well you readied the garden last fall.
Posted inOn this date
March 12, 1974: Farmer loses 18 head of cattle, six horses, 29 pigs, and more in Fayette fire, gasoline prices hit 60 cents and consumers can expect limits and lines at stations, and student tries national fad and ‘streaks’ at Cony High School
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March 11, 1992: Vagabond picks Waterville to settle after 20 years on the road, Nokomis principal says environment is key to dropout rate, and Albion outhouse business is on a $200K roll
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Oxbow Island Gang: Winter Crows’ and ‘Citizen K-9’
The third book in Peaks Island author Rae Chalmers’s series of environmental mysteries for middle-grade readers, and another excellent mystery by Damariscotta author David Rosenfelt