Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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PublishedMay 19, 2019
Public has chance to weigh in on pot rules
National experts have already suggested ways to improve rules, from allowing online purchases and retail delivery to banning hazardous extraction methods and most forms of advertising.
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PublishedMay 18, 2019
Funtown icon gets a winter makeover
The Astrosphere scrambler at the Saco amusement park now sports a concrete dome – complete with air conditioning – to replace the old inflatable one.
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PublishedMay 13, 2019
Finding consensus on whale protections a tough call in Maine
Halving the number of vertical lines in a state where everyone fishes for lobster in his or her own way presents significant challenges for regulators.
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PublishedMay 6, 2019
Hearing set on recreational pot rules
The May 23 hearing in Portland will be the first opportunity for the public to provide in-person testimony on the state’s draft of adult-use cannabis regulations.
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PublishedMay 2, 2019
Maine strikes tentative marijuana-tracking deal with Florida company
This second attempt to secure a track-and-trace contract marks a major milestone in the state’s effort to roll out its adult-use market
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PublishedMay 1, 2019
First-grader on bike killed in collision with school bus in Rumford
The 6-year-old boy was hit when he fell off the bike while trying to stop in an intersection just two blocks from his school.
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PublishedApril 22, 2019
Maine releases draft rules for its recreational marijuana market. Read them here.
Proposed regulations, made public at the request of the Press Herald, cover everything from licensing, inventory tracking and enforcement to advertising, packaging and labeling.
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PublishedApril 19, 2019
Maine hires second marijuana consultant for $10,000
The LA firm BOTEC will analyze proposed rules for Maine’s recreational pot industry.
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PublishedApril 12, 2019
U.S. lobster dealers expanding into Canada to shore up their business
With an acquisition in Nova Scotia, Ready Seafood joins a growing group of dealers that want to secure access to hard shell lobster year round and hedge against unfavorable trade conditions.
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PublishedApril 10, 2019
Maine on track to launch recreational marijuana market this year, says state’s pot czar
Residents can now grow cannabis for recreational use at home, but still have no way to legally buy or sell it.
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