“You’ve got to be able to lay out the facts and be level-headed. But you have to do that in a respectful way.”

The goal was “to make this downtown much more user-friendly.”

Maine lost $1,642 per person in funds for just these five programs because of its undercount…

Funds will be used to construct a boat launch, breakwater, and wharf to accommodate 35 boats…

“We’ll take the risk, and then if you’re wildly successful, we get to ship all sorts of your product…”

“The ocean is the climate’s heart and circulatory system. Warming is a stress on the heart,” Aimee Bonnanno of the New England Aquarium told a crowd of 345 people, mostly scientists, who had gathered to try to understand the future of the Gulf of Maine in a hotter climate.

He’d talk about catching smelts as a child, back when the train came through Columbia Falls, and they’d pack the fish end-for-end in wooden boxes…

Eastport markets itself as “the deepest natural seaport in the continental United States.”

“Access denied is opportunity denied.”