Fireworks — the perfect end to any celebration on the Fourth of July. Photo by Michael Breault. More…
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On the Cover
A Fascination With Fireworks
When the sky lights up with bursts and trails and spirals and showers of color something special is in the air…literally. Almost everyone votes yes for a celebration with fireworks whether it’s for a sports team win, a summer fest, a community milestone, the arrival of a new season, a wedding or, especially, the birth of a nation. More…
Conservation
Youth Conservation Corps Improves Water Quality
Got an erosion problem along a shoreline in the Belgrade Lakes watershed? The 7 Lakes Alliance has a solution. The 7 Lakes’ Youth Conservation Corps executes erosion control projects that keep dirt out of the lakes — phosphorous in dirt being a necessary nutrient for algae, the organism that can turn lakes an icky green. More…
Call of the Loon
A Day in the Life of Loons
Long Pond loons photographed in the course of their daily activities. More…
Dams Report
Water Levels are Great, But What About Temperature?
A visitor wrote in this week to compliment us on the water levels so far this season, but asked if “there is something we can do about the water temperature?” As I pen this week’s discourse, upper Long Pond is a refreshing 67.8°F! Not quite wet-suit weather but not quite enjoyable either!! More…
Theater
Gaslight Theater to Present I Hate Shakespeare!
The Vienna Woods Players are preparing a comedic evening of four short, adult themed plays by David Ives, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist, called “ All In The Timing.” More…
Theater
Vienna Woods Players Present Four Short Comedies
The Vienna Woods Players are preparing a comedic evening of four short, adult themed plays by David Ives, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist, called “ All In The Timing.” More…
Barkley On Books
Travels with George, by Nathaniel Philbrick
Yep, George Washington visited, but did not sleep, in Kittery, Maine when Massachusetts was our state and Maine a province. I can’t help but think that the great roaring Piscataqua River, this tremendous phenomena of nature which separates Maine from New Hampshire, is one big reason Mainers were always quite separate from their southern neighbors. More…
Take It Outside
Moose in the Morning, Trout in the Afternoon
Last week was the first official week of summer, and I got to enjoy a broad variety of the outside activities. I went foraging for early season mushrooms and met up with a couple of moose in the woods. I took a neighbor’s grandson out fishing and to check on a newly hatched loon chick. I had an overnight visit from my youngest grandson. And I hiked French Mountain. More…
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