By Steve Wight Sun Journal op-ed Traveling around Maine, I work with people who are concerned about how to bring jobs and economic prosperity to the rural villages of western Maine and the Katahdin region to the north. For 38 years, I owned and operated, with my wife, Peggy, the Sunday River Inn and Cross Read More
Winter: Moosehead Lake, Final Day
For our final day, we journeyed up the west side of the lake. Though The Birches Resort was our final destination, we made multiple pit-stops to explore the shoreline on the way there and back. First stop: Rockwood’s public boat launch facing Mount Kineo. In the summertime, this area on the water is alive with Read More
Legislators Question Viability of Fiberight Waste Proposal
Eight members of a legislative committee are calling on the Department of Environmental Protection to withhold a permit for the controversial waste-to-energy project until concerns over state law and funding are addressed. By Madeline St. Amour, Staff Writer Central Maine newspapers news story A controversial proposal to build a waste-to-energy plant in Hampden that would handle Read More
Peaks Island Students Change Habits Beyond an Island in Maine
Students at Peaks Island Elementary School recently engaged in an endeavor created to align with their new, project-based learning program, RRR-Evolution. The idea is to help the youngsters understand the impacts of their decisions with hands-on (quite literally in this case) examples of how those decisions effect the world around us. Students spent one week Read More
Midcoast Towns Struggle with Trash Tug-of-War
by Andy O’Brien Free Press news story In the coming weeks, Camden, Rockport, Hope and Lincolnville will hold special town meetings to decide where to send their 6,000 tons of annual household trash after March 31, 2018. That date marks the expiration of a lucrative electricity contract between the utility Emera Maine and the Penobscot Read More
Celebrate Acadia’s Centennial with a New Monument in Maine
By The BDN Editorial Board Bangor Daily News editorial Friday, July 8, is the official centennial of the preservation of Acadia National Park. One hundred years ago, President Woodrow Wilson accepted a gift of 5,000 acres along the Maine coast to create Sieur de Monts National Monument. It was the first federal preserve made up Read More
My Maine This Week: Tom Tietenberg
“Twilight at Prospect Harbor,” by NRCM member Tom Tietenberg of Waterville, Maine To see past My Maine This Week photos, or to submit a photo of your own to be featured on our website, please visit www.nrcm.org/our-maine/my-maine-this-week.
Protecting the Environment is Not a Partisan Issue, Natural Resources Council Leader Says
by Lisa Pohlmann Portland Press Herald opinion piece AUGUSTA — Summer is here, and Mainers and visitors are enjoying the splendor of our rivers, lakes, parks, coasts, mountains, forests and wildlife. Meanwhile, Gov. LePage is attacking Maine’s environment. The governor has publicly declared war on the Natural Resources Council of Maine, but there should be Read More
Advocates: Pollution Rules Necessary to Protect Acadia’s Air
by A.J. Higgins MPBN news story Millions of Americans visit Maine’s Acadia National Park each year expecting a quality outdoor experience featuring some of the state’s most iconic landscapes. But unhealthy air quality in the region is forcing some hikers to change their plans. Rich MacDonald, a registered Maine guide and co-owner of the Natural Read More
