We’re approaching mid-winter, and snowmobiling, ice-fishing, rabbit-hunting and self-propelled options like skiing, snowshoeing and hiking boom. A few hardcore types even backpack with a tent or fish a handful of open-water rivers or streams that have year-round fishing regs.
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CORRECTION
In a story on page B1 Wednesday, a statement by Richard Silkman of Kennebec Valley Gas Co. should have reported that according to Silkman, the company’s pipeline project could not be built without a tax increment financing agreement. It was a reporter’s error.
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CORRECTIONS
In a page B3 story Wednesday about a hearing on the nomination of District Attorney Evert Fowle to become a district court judge, the headline misstated the status of his nomination. The Legislature’s Judiciary Committee endorsed the nomination unanimously, but Fowle still is awaiting Senate confirmation. His last name was also misspelled in the headline and the story. They were editing errors.
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LA Clippers’ player buys Avril Lavigne’s home
The eight-bedroom Bel Air estate goes for a reported $8.5 million.
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BOOKS: Maine authors
Maine writer Nancy Griffin’s debut children’s book reveals to youngsters what a great place Maine is to live or visit.
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BOOKS: Publishers Weekly best sellers
Best sellers for the week of Jan. 26, 2012
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BOOKS: Behind-the-scenes view of PBS series
The wise Lord Grantham suggests that we all have “chapters we would rather keep unpublished.” So true. But what we’re happy to see published is “The World of Downton Abbey,” a fascinating companion to the hit PBS series about an aristocratic family and their army of servants.
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BOOKS: New Mysteries
Finding the dead is the impetus behind Stef Penney’s “The Invisible Ones,” a superb novel with two richly drawn narrators.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINERS: Inn by the Sea is a dream destination in Cape Elizabeth
We could live at Cape Elizabeth’s Inn by the Sea . . . in a two-story suite with amazing ocean views, taking our meals at the world-class Sea Glass Restaurant, walking daily on Crescent Beach right in front of the inn, birdwatching in the surrounding gardens, enjoying daily treatments in the luxurious spa . . .
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HIKING :Yurt let’s you get away from it all
Tucked into the forest, high on a ridgetop in the hills of Montville — about 20 miles west of Belfast — is a unique and comfortable spot to spend a winter’s night, known as Goose Ridge Yurt. Easily accessible via a five-minute hike, snowshoe or ski trek uphill from the parking area off Halldale Road, the yurt feels amazingly remote, as if it were miles deep in the woods.