This is part inside story and part full disclosure, and while I’m at it, I should say that in 20 years of journalism, I have never looked to personally benefit from a story.
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HUNTING: For Ducks Unlimited, plenty of history of conservation
“It just isn’t worthwhile to go duck hunting these days — having to get up early in the morning or sit out in hard weather for a shot or two all day. I wouldn’t want my son to pursue a sport that I love so well that has sunk to such a low level after the way I have known it.”
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OUTDOORS: ‘The Baxter Line’
MILLINOCKET — It took a half dozen questions, first with the reverend, then the carpenter, next the restaurant owner. Finally, the name for this peculiar phenomenon that takes place in a parking lot in Millinocket every January came clear.
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ALLEN AFIELD: Looking forward to green season
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.