The Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center director is doing her part to dispense with fear.
Mary Pols
Mary Pols writes primarily about sustainability for Source. She came to the Press Herald in late 2013 to work on Source after a long career writing about movies. She has almost, but not quite, broken the habit of waking pre-dawn on Oscar nomination day. Mary was born in Portland and raised in Brunswick, but was away for 25 years so it’s been a thrill for her to learn about her state in the 21st century. She studied art history at Duke and her masters in journalism is from UC Berkeley. She’s happiest reporting a story in Maine’s great outdoors, whether she’s watching seaweed farmers plant a crop or eating fresh caught perch with an ice fisherman while a hungry eagle hovers nearby. History really floats her boat as well (once she wrote an entire story about the life of a very old and rare apple tree in Freeport). She lives in Brunswick with her hockey-obsessed son and their dog, a foster-fail kitten and an elderly Maine Coon.
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How a Van Buren-based vegetable processor went from triumph to shutdown
Northern Girl found success with organic vegetables and fiddleheads but the company’s for sale after a tumultuous year and a lost Whole Foods contract.
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Dan Devereaux watches over the waters in Brunswick
An innate curiosity about nature has made the marine warden an advocate for aquaculture.
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Food & Dining
‘Alimentari’ specializes in creative and elaborate salads
But are they worth the trouble?
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Maine farmers worry about workers’ future under Trump immigration policy
Farmers and the foreign-born workers they hire – legally – to bring in the harvest are unsure what their future holds.
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Chebeague Island native’s the driving force behind new aquaculture festival
Science educator Julia Maine wants to show community members the bounty that can come from sea farms.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Northern Girl food processing company ceases operations
The innovative Aroostook County-based vegetable packaging operation hopes to find a buyer.
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Movies + sustainability: The birds and bees star in 8 movies we think you should see
On Oscar weekend, Source staffers give their picks for the best films about climate change, Greenpeace and vanishing species.
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Julie Rosenbach runs South Portland’s 1-woman sustainability office
Rosenbach says she doesn’t feel like an activist. “I feel quite practical,” she says.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Officer in fatal Portland shooting had used deadly force before
Sgt. Nicholas Goodman, the police veteran who killed a young man Saturday, was dragged by an SUV in 2008 before mortally wounding the driver.