The cold snap and seasonable temperatures may finally allow ice to form on area lakes and ponds.
Tux Turkel
Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets.
When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat.
A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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‘Super Saturday’ draws shoppers
PORTLAND — With a couple of Christmas parties on her calendar for the weekend, Kim Mickiewicz was cruising the aisles Saturday morning at the Renys department store for some stocking stuffers, including decorative pencils and a dry-erase board with markers. More-exciting gifts waited in her cart, but she didn’t want to talk openly about them.
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Hannaford urges customers to return ground beef
PORTLAND — Hannaford Supermarkets urged customers Saturday to return all ground beef for a refund, if they’re worried about its being part of the recall of contaminated meat.
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Workers recall how spiders broke loose from shipment to BIW
Barry Moore and John Crocker, machinists at Bath Iron Works, were unloading missile-launch assemblies into a guided-missile destroyer when they spotted it.
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Black widow spiders surprise BIW workers
Barry Moore and John Crocker, machinists at Bath Iron Works, were unloading missile-launch assemblies into a guided-missile destroyer when they spotted it.
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Coast may see wind turbines by 2016
SOUTH PORTLAND — The Maine coast could become home to a pilot project to create the country’s first deepwater, floating wind farm.
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Coast considered for floating wind farm
SOUTH PORTLAND — The Maine coast could become home to a pilot project to create the country’s first deepwater, floating wind farm.
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Thorndike stove collection a window into winters past
THORNDIKE — Trimmed in shiny nickel for looks, faced with clear, mica windows for viewing the fire, the Riverside coal stove is a beauty. It’s relatively efficient, too, with a “base burner” design featuring a hopper that can gravity-feed 100 pounds of fuel into the firebox.
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Antique heaters still draw followers
THORNDIKE — Trimmed in shiny nickel for looks, faced with clear, mica windows for viewing the fire, the Riverside coal stove is a beauty. It’s relatively efficient, too, with a “base burner” design featuring a hopper that can gravity-feed 100 pounds of fuel into the firebox.
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Numerous variables impact availability of natural gas to Mainers
BRUNSWICK — Homeowners in the Meadowbrook subdivision here have Botany Place envy. No, they don’t like the Botany Place condominium community any better than their woodsy neighborhood of custom homes, across the road on outer Maine Street.