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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PublishedJuly 6, 2016
Invasive species got your goat? So does Kennebunk woman’s new landscaping business
For $500 a week, clients can rent Heather Lombard’s Scapegoats herd to help clear off their land.
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PublishedJune 29, 2016
Only a third of Mainers feel secure financially, poll indicates
That’s half the national number, but the survey also finds residents are better prepared to pay an emergency $1,000 bill than many other Americans.
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PublishedJune 24, 2016
Thanks to ‘Dr. Shark,’ researchers can learn and let live
The UNE professor develops a method that allows fish data collection without killing the specimens, and his work will be featured during TV’s Shark Week 2016.
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PublishedJune 22, 2016
Mercury findings prompt state to widen lobster fishing ban in Penobscot River estuary
Initially closed in 2014, the area where a sampling of lobsters had elevated mercury levels has now almost doubled in size.
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PublishedJune 9, 2016
Shaw’s resumes food donation program
The supermarket chain is partnering with Feeding America to revive a program it had moved to discontinue beginning in 2013.
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PublishedMay 8, 2016
Maine lobster suppliers strategize to foil EU ban
Dealers and suppliers meet in Brussels for a seafood expo and to talk with their Canadian and New England peers about Sweden’s attempt to ban live lobster imports.
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