CORONAVIRUS Spring is truly here! The national CDC is now recommending that all fully vaccinated individuals can go maskless – indoors or out (with a few exceptions like public transportation). Everyone is eager to have restrictions lifted, and the CDC is responding daily with their latest research. Keep up with the very latest in Maine […]

Northeast Wilderness Trust is a non-profit organization that protects wilderness throughout the New England and the Adirondacks. The unique aspect of Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT) is that it is the only organization working across the Northeast focused exclusively on forever-wild conservation. This group currently cares for more than 41,000 acres of wildlands across the six […]

Joseph A. Conforti has been helping us understand Maine for quite some time. He arrived in 1987 to establish an American and New England Studies Program at USM that trained educators and historians. Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity, did what the subtitle says. Conforti edited the best book on our metropolis, Creating Portland, […]