Canuvo, the dispensary founded by Glenn Peterson, says he was trying to be sarcastic in his response to comments made during a Bridgton Planning Board workshop.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
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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Regulators moving to ban exotic bait that could threaten lobster fishery
The board agrees to develop a bait safety resolution based on Maine’s rules that all lobstering states would enact by 2020.
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Drastic cut to herring quota puts Maine lobstermen over the bait barrel
There aren’t enough pogies to take up the slack, and Maine’s strict bait rules prohibit species that could sicken another fishery, leaving state regulators pursuing other strategies.
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Lobstermen reject claim that 2015 rule led them to use stronger lines
Maine officials challenged a conclusion in a federal report on right whale protections, noting that regulators just awarded a grant to investigate the assumption.
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Lobstermen, environmentalists battle over right whale protections
The industry is willing to switch to easier-breaking rope to lower the chance of entanglements, but whale advocates say that doesn’t go far enough.
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Seed vendors take root at annual Maine Cannabis Convention
The number of people who want to grow their own marijuana at home has been going up as Maine struggles to develop a commercial market for recreational marijuana.
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Gubernatorial candidates vow to back lobster industry in upcoming fight
Proposals to protect right whales, which will be unveiled next week, could hobble Maine’s most lucrative fishery.
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Lobster industry blasts proposed regulations intended to protect whales
Officials say scientific data doesn’t support the proposals.
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Annual Maine pot convention offers bumper crop of cannabis expertise
The more than 30 speakers scheduled to appear in Portland over two days include the cultivation editor of High Times.
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Defenders of endangered right whales pursue limits on aquaculture
The threat of entanglements extends beyond the lobster industry, say advocates, pointing to Maine’s rapidly growing farmed-fisheries sector.