Seventh-grader Sam Kenney of Dixmont is heading to Pennsylvania to compete today, but not for a traveling basketball or hockey team. The 12-year-old is going to the Pennsylvania Fly Tying Championship.
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AVON — With a makeshift air gun fashioned with duct tape and a gas engine on a home-rigged backpack, the biologists with the Department of Marine Resources laughed as they blasted holes for hatchery eggs into a rocky tributary of the Sandy. But their work could be a part of a long-sought Atlantic salmon solution.
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SKIING: Peak to Peak Challenge offers incentive to explore
Now that virtually every Maine ski area is in full, or nearly full, operation, thanks to a little help from Mother Nature, the arrival of what is traditionally the coldest stretch of the winter from mid-January through mid-February, and the extraordinary work of snow making crews whenever temps have allowed, perhaps it’s time to stretch your ski legs a little by exploring the rich variety of terrain and facilities that Maine has to offer.
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HIKING: : A trek in Europe is well worth the trip
The middle of a Maine winter is a good time to start planning your next big hiking adventure. A solid week on the trail somewhere, maybe two. It takes some doing to put a trip together, so it’s best to get the process going now.
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FOR THE BIRDS: Lingering species sparse in northern counts
This column is the last of three reviewing the results of the most recent Christmas Bird Counts in Maine. We’ll jump all around the state today.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Everything’s BIG at Big G’s
At Winslow restaurant Big G’s, the G stands for great food. The Big stands for, well BIG! It’s always fun to find a unique restaurant that marches to a different food drummer. Gerry Michaud has created a deliciously fun place.
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BOOKS: ‘The Rope’: Rebuilding a life amid a stunning landscape
“The Rope” By Nevada Barr Minotaur ($25.99) Since 1993, Nevada Barr has given readers solid, intriguing tours of America’s national parks from Texas to Michigan to the Florida Keys, including an urban national park in New Orleans, via her series heroine, park ranger Anna Pigeon. In this series, readers have been swept up by the […]
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BOOKS: Murder mystery enters Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ territory
Death comes to Pemberley, one of the great houses in Derbyshire, and a most unwelcome guest it is. Not only does the loss of life come at a most inopportune time, the night before the annual Lady Anne’s ball, the highlight of the local social season, but it is a most violent and unexpected fatality into the bargain.
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MAINE AUTHORS: “Fractured Light,” “Disposable Causes”
Author Rachel McClellan has announced the release of her debut young adult novel “Fractured Light,” the first in a trilogy. The Old Orchard Beach resident’s paranormal novel is already climbing to the top of the 2012 Debut Author List on Goodreads, as stated in a news release.
McClellan will launch the book at Barnes & Noble in Augusta Saturday at 11 a.m.
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BOOKS: “Chopsticks”: Watch, listen, feel, look, discover, view, imagine
The first indication that “Chopsticks” is significantly more than just a novel is its trailer, which encourages readers to watch, listen, feel, look, discover, view and imagine. All of those activities are not only encouraged but enabled in this ambitious and hefty tome that works as a sort of interactive scrapbook. An exercise in multimedia storytelling, “Chopsticks” is a book, but it’s also an iPhone and iPad app peppered with videos, songs and instant messages that bring the story to life in a way that isn’t possible with words alone.