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…

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…

We are back to more normal summertime afternoon showers. We have received two storms in just the past ten days; our total rainfall for the period of 2.44″. That’s more like it. For the previous ten days, we reported a paltry 0.32″. More…

The 7 Lakes Alliance encourages you to take erosion control measures to mitigate stormwater runoff and erosion into streams and lakes. Dirt carries phosphorus into a water body; phosphorus is feeds algae, degrading water quality. More…

These funny, everyday reflections of a Bangor cop will keep you chuckling. What is even more amazing is that Down East Books published this first book in 2020. It sold so very well that a second one has already been published, and a third is on the way in this fall. More…

What an unusual story of a young slave girl from France in 1763 who ends up here in French Canada, Maine, and New York! 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…

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…