Cianbro Corporation is proposing to dispose of 32,000 cubic yards of Penobscot River bottom sediment in west Penobscot Bay, about 4 ½ miles off Rockland. Cianbro plans to dredge the bottom of the river as part of redevelopment of the former Eastern Fine Paper Mill in Brewer. Cianbro will raze most of the mill buildings
Sippewisset: Or, Life on a Salt Marsh
Chelsea Green, 2006 Home on the Marsh Tim Traver, a science writer, attempts the near-impossible with this first book. Consider the word “dumbstruck” and what it means: something hits us so hard that we are unable to find adequate words to describe it. Does this lead to an eventual effusion in an attempt at articulation?
Taboo Topic
To the editor: I am responding to your June 2007 article, “Breaking the Silence” regarding child sexual abuse. Thank you for bringing attention to this serious and prevalent problem. Sexual assault is a crime of violence where perpetrators are motivated out of a need to feel powerful by controlling, dominating or humiliating the victim. Far
Planning for the PenobscotAs a river flows cleaner, groups collaborate to map its future
Several related and parallel efforts are underway to address changes occurring in the Penobscot watershed. Most have come in the wake of the Penobscot River Restoration Project, which in 2003 announced plans to remove the Great Works and Veazie dams, create a natural bypass channel around the Howland Dam on the Piscataquis, and rebalance hydropower
The Last Voyage of Columbus
Little, Brown and Company, 2005 267 pages, paperback, $14.95 The High Voyage Five hundred years after the death of Christopher Columbus, one would think little new material is available. Martin Dugard, however, has given us a fresh look at “the Admiral’s” fourth and most extensive voyage. In his notes at the end of The Last
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To the editor: In the article. “Audubon study finds bird decline” [WWF Aug. 2007], Leslie Clapp, president of the Downeast chapter of the Maine Audubon Society, reported, based on observations by others, that “decks…would be full of 30 to 50 [evening grosbeaks]” and “They’ve always been so common and now they’re not around.” However, the
A New Chairman for the Island Institute
John Bird, a nationally recognized educator and organizational consultant with strong Maine coastal ties, has agreed to serve as chair of the board of trustees of the Island Institute. Bird succeeds Horace A. “Hoddy” Hildreth, Jr., chairman of the board of Diversified Communications, whose 16-year term as board chair included such landmarks as the launch
Art and Gender on Monhegan
When Monhegan Island’s renowned artistic heritage is invoked, it is more often than not an all-male roster of painters that is trotted out: Kent, Bellows, Hopper, Winter, Tam, Wyeth, et al. “On Island: Women Artists of Monhegan,” on view at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland (through Sept. 23), goes a long
Eastport celebrates Old Home Week
Eastport’s 2007 Old Home Week ended officially at eight bells on July 6 as harbor pilot Captain Bob Peacock climbed down the pilot’s ladder of the USS McFaul (DDG 74) onto the Eastport pilot boat in the Bay of Fundy. The destroyer, which arrived on July 1, was the 23rd naval vessel to serve as
Latin American visitors learn from a coastal river and the people who live near it
How do you get people to realize our natural resources are in deep trouble? The problem, said Dirk Francisco of the Belize Audubon Society, is, “they don’t think about tomorrow.” So, overfishing goes on in Belize as it does around the world, and the delicate coastal ecosystem that supports the local economy gets closer to