Clouds reflected in the still waters of Ingham Pond in Mount Vernon. Photo courtesy of 7 Lakes Alliance.
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Community Update
Neighbors Driving Neighbors is Back!
Neighbors Driving Neighbors is a community-based nonprofit whose volunteer drivers transport those who don’t drive. For the past two years, NDN has navigated the rough terrain of COVID, offering free rides to medical appointments and deliveries of food and medicine. More…
Call of the Loon
What Do Our Loons Eat?
Our loons feed primarily on fish and yet, will also eat a variety of other aquatic animals, such as crawfish, shrimp, as well as vegetation — and when desperate, even a mudpuppy! More…
Dams Report
Rains Rescue Water Levels
Well, we are back to more normal summertime afternoon showers. We have received two storms in just the past ten days, one producing 1.18″ and the other 1.10″ for a cumulative total for the period of 2.44″. Remember, for the previous ten days, we reported a paltry 0.32″. So this is more like it! More…
7 Lakes Alliance
Best Practices to Control Erosion Into Our Lakes
One of 7 Lakes Alliance’s major thrusts is encouraging erosion control measures to mitigate stormwater runoff and erosion into streams and lakes. Developed property is more prone to create runoff. Dirt carries phosphorus into a water body; phosphorus is feeds algae, degrading water quality. More…
Barkley On Books
The Detective in the Dooryard, by Timothy Cotton
What a different story of a young slave girl in France who ends up here in French Canada, Maine, and New York. This is another diary from the Dear America Series by Scholastic from 1763. The “peculiar institution” in France had very educated companions for their elite. Lozette Moreau, a French slave girl, learned French, English and a third language in order to mingle as a companion. More…
Barkley On Books
Look to the Hills, by Patricia C. McKissack
What a different story of a young slave girl in France who ends up here in French Canada, Maine, and New York. This is another diary from the Dear America Series by Scholastic from 1763. The “peculiar institution” in France had very educated companions for their elite. Lozette Moreau, a French slave girl, learned French, English and a third language in order to mingle as a companion. More…
Take It Outside
Underwater Rocks
Mel Croft and I set out to explore some interesting, submerged rocks we had visited a few years ago in Lower Long Pond. I had originally found the rocks while snorkeling during an Invasive Plant Patrol. The rocks came in all kinds of shapes, and sizes, with different colored layers and mineral filled dikes in cracks. More…
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