The story that would become reporter Bob Cummings’ legacy didn’t set his world on fire when White Nichols walked into the Bath Times office in the early 1960s with a story tip. Nichols—a Wiscasset resident who had “drifted out of the habit of earning a living,” as Cummings would later describe it—worked a variety of odd jobs and covered a lot of ground doing so...
Richard Aroneau, along with his wife Kit Remsen Aroneau, launched Planet in Camden in 1991 and then opened the store in Rockland in 2004. The Rockland store is closing this fall, but not because its stock is out of vogue with children.
Sen Angus King predicted that in the next 5-10 years, and "maybe even sooner," dramatic climate changes would come. "People just can't deny it anymore," he said, and so bold moves away from carbon-based energy would have to follow.
Fall foliage and boats don't seem to go in hand in hand, but in Portland, the best way to see the season's colors is to cruise around Casco Bay's islands.
As a “small-town boy” growing up in Southwest Harbor, Phil Whitney had dreams of traveling the world. When he entered the U.S. State Department’s Office of Security, he found himself on a career path that would fulfill his dreams many times over.
Roger Pielke had come to Maine to speak at the University of Maine's Mitchell Center for Sustainability, traveling to the state from Colorado, where he is director of the University of Colorado's Center for Science. After speaking, he hoped to head to Bar Harbor to see Acadia National Park and dine at one of the seaside town's restaurants. But which restaurant?