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  • Students on the shore during a lesson.
    March 20

    Girls embrace science in coastal setting

    The leadership class helps students examine the beliefs or ideas they have adopted or inadvertently accepted as fact.

    Isabel Reddy

    Media

  • Periwinkle
    March 20

    Periwinkles an under-heralded seafood product

    In Washington County, where 90 percent of Maine's periwinkle harvest takes place, they're called “wrinklers.”

    Dana Wilde

    Media

  • Maine shirmp
    March 20

    Shrimp future remains cloudy

    Maine shrimp from the research catches are available now and they are being snapped up by seafood wholesalers…

    Stephanie Bouchard

    Media

  • Students hold a blade of kelp
    March 20

    This teacher treats his students like research assistants

    Kelp spores are introduced to a beaker or aquarium. String is then wrapped around a section of PVC pipe and the pipe is immersed in the water with the spores. The spores attach to the twine, and when they reach a certain size...

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • Capt. Eric Jergenson
    March 16

    A school for 'that kid who just wants to work on the water'

    “The goal is to graduate kids so they’re ready for jobs.”
    —Eric Jergenson

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • Bill Hallinan, a fisherman, worries about losing access to the water.
    March 14

    Hangover or happy hour? Boothbay region sorts out change

    “Some folks think it doesn’t fit the neighborhood. Other folks think it’s beautiful and well-maintained.”

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

  • Planning this year's garden.
    March 9

    The trouble with March

    What does March offer? No national holiday and we get St. Patrick’s Day instead and green beer.

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Fishermen bring their catch to a floating buying station in Stonington.
    March 8

    Lobster catch at $533 million for 2016

    Penobscot Bay east to the Canadian border is “the sweet spot” for the fishery.

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • The Hour of the Land
    February 1

    Book review: National parks as ‘breathing places’

    Williams offers a mix of call to action, manifesto and a questioning of the status quo…

    Carl Little

    Media

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