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PublishedNovember 5, 2011
ALLEN AFIELD: Bicyclists find lighter traffic now
My passion for bicycling across November's brown and gray landscape grows, and in the Belgrade Lakes region, a huge plus strikes me as obvious, particularly on weekdays. Traffic proves so much lighter compared to summer and leaf-peeping time.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2011
HUNTING: Early numbers about what state expected
Brandon Zalegowski is a clerk at the Middle Road General Store in Sidney. His duties include weighing the deer that hunters bring to the store's tagging station.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2011
OUTDOORS: Skiers’ losses are hikers’ gain at closed ski areas
With the start of the 2011-2012 ski season now less than a month away, my thoughts have turned, as they always do this time of year, to the abundance of wonderful fall hikes on the mountains that once were active ski areas and have reverted to their original wooded state.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2011
WHAT’S UP IN NOVEMBER: Jupiter is at its best this month
As the Northern Hemisphere prepares for winter, the nights are getting colder and longer, even as our terrestrial landscape is getting bleaker since most of our colorful leaves have fallen. There will be several interesting highlights this month, including Jupiter at its best for the year, Venus returning to our evening sky, a comet still getting brighter, and even a little asteroid that will buzz Earth at less than the distance to the moon.
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PublishedNovember 2, 2011
HERB WILSON — FOR THE BIRDS: eBird makes it easy to share sightings
With the passing of Steve Jobs last month, we have all been thinking about the way that computers and the Internet have transformed our lives. The information highway has had profound effects on the ease and speed with which birders can communicate.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2011
Groups oppose second national park in Maine
The groups say they want to preserve a working forest that's open to the public.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2011
OUTDOORS: Managing the herd
Hunter Alex Wall had a name for an apple tree on his 100-acre property in Belgrade.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2011
OUTDOORS — JOHN CHRISTIE: Mountain Memories
Although I climbed Bigelow Mountain dozens of times when I lived in the western mountains of Maine and explored most of the terrain on the northern side of the mountain when I was involved with the group that had notions of building a mega-ski area on the broad flank above Flagstaff Lake, Columbus Day in 1984 marked a very special occasion
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PublishedOctober 20, 2011
BIKING: Two rides that are sure to thrill, even if the colors don’t
Bikers, hikers, tourists and nature lovers anxiously await the middle days of October, when their outdoor adventures are highlighted by the colors produced by the trees of Maine and New England.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2011
HIKING — JOHN CHRISTIE: 2 mountain hikes in 1 fine day
A day hike I always save for the fall, after the traffic has thinned out on coastal Route 1, involves not one, but two special mountains, easy enough to climb and close enough together that they're great fun to knock off in the same day.
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