Augusta- and Waterville-area arrests for Dec. 28, 2024-Jan. 3, 2025.
Moosehead Lake
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Metal mining has no place in future of Katahdin region
There is too much of a chance of something going wrong if Maine allows a mine in such an environmentally sensitive place.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Conservation can help nature weather forces of change in Maine
A plan to set aside 3,000 acres of forested land in Piscataquis County will protect wildlife, jobs, recreation and more.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Wardens make rescue during height of Tuesday nor’easter
Maine game wardens and a group of Passamaquoddy game warden trainees led a family stranded on Moosehead Lake to safety.
Posted inLocal & State, News
New zoning plan aims to protect Moosehead Lake region from sprawl
Members of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission approved a plan that will create six development zones comprising a total of 1,036 acres, or 6.1% of the 16,910 acres originally designated for development by Plum Creek.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Outdoors, Sports
Appalachian Mountain Club purchases 27,000 acres in Moosehead Lake region
Acquiring and restoring the property will conserve one of the last remaining large, unprotected forest blocks in the region, the club says.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Well-known Portland man drowns while fishing on East Outlet of Moosehead Lake
The body of Truc Huynh, 40, a Vietnamese immigrant, 2005 graduate of Bowdoin College and 2001 graduate of Portland High School, was recovered by Maine game wardens on Saturday afternoon.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly, Outdoors, Sports
Ice fishermen encouraged – even paid, in a sense – to keep the togue they catch
Biologists and derby organizers try every trick they can think of to encourage ice fishermen to remove the overabundant species from Sebago and other lakes throughout the state.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Moosehead developers yield to market forces
Ten years after Plum Creek Timber won an expensive rezoning battle, the real estate market had the final word.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Timber company dropping hotly contested Moosehead development plan
Weyerhaeuser wants to revert to more typical zoning for commercial forests because none of the housing and resort development approved in 2009 has happened.