MARS HILL (AP) – In its initial year of operation, Maine’s first commercial wind farm generated enough electricity to power 19,000 homes.

That’s according to UPC Wind, a Massachusetts-based company that commemorated Mars Hill Wind’s first year of operation on Tuesday.

Since beginning commercial operations last March, the 38-turbine wind farm has generated more than 133 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.

Schooner Bowdoin to return to Arctic

CASTINE (AP) – The historic schooner Bowdoin will sail from Castine to the Arctic this summer to retrace the historic routes it sailed on during exploration and research voyages decades ago.

Maine Maritime Academy says the 88-foot vessel will depart Castine no later than June first for a 60-day voyage that will take it as far north as Jakobshavn, Greenland, a small village well above the Arctic Circle.

Built in 1921 in East Boothbay, the Bowdoin made 25 scientific expeditions to the Arctic Circle under the leadership of Adm. Donald MacMillan until 1954. The ship is now owned by Marine Maritime Academy.

No more free beer at Mich. barbershop

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – The owner of Jude’s Barbershops will continue offering haircuts and shaves to his customers, but no more free beer.

The Michigan attorney general’s office says Thomas Martin’s 11 shops in the Grand Rapids area may not hand out a brew with each cut because he needs a liquor license.

Martin says he was just continuing an old-fashioned complimentary service for his customers that started years ago.

Parachute might be hijacker Cooper’s

SEATTLE (AP) – The FBI says it’s analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found by children in Washington state to see whether it was used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.

Officials said Tuesday that children playing outside their home near Amboy, in southwest Washington, found the chute sticking up from the ground this month.

Cooper hijacked a plane from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in 1971, got $200,000 and asked to be flown to Mexico. He parachuted from the plane somewhere near the Oregon border, and officials doubt he could have survived.