Organizers of the state’s other agricultural fairs consider whether to hold the multi-day events in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.
Deirdre Fleming
Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.
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Electricity restored to more than 3,300 CMP customers in Kennebec County
The interruption of power Saturday afternoon apparently was caused by a raccoon that entered the Monmouth substation, the utility says.
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Tri For a Cure will be a virtual event this summer
The all-women’s triathlon, a fundraiser for the Maine Cancer Foundation, will go virtual in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Virus Diaries: No stranger to isolation in an era of deadly disease
Doris ‘Dolly’ Roach had tuberculosis in the 1950s, and was bedridden in a sanatorium for more than four years.
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As the weather warms, land trusts struggle with crowds
Land trusts in southern Maine are determined to keep trails open, but managing crowds during the pandemic has been a struggle.
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Maine moose-turd artist’s TV series debuts on May 5
Somerville’s Mary Winchenbach will appear in a 30-minute reality show running for 10 consecutive weeks on truTV.
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Hunters will not need to tag turkeys during Maine spring hunt this year
The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife also announced that the wild turkey season will start early for both youth and adult hunters.
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With traffic down in Maine, wildlife hospitals seeing decline in injured animals
But a wildlife biologist cautions that it’s difficult to draw conclusions from one month’s worth of data.
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Maine moose lottery in June will he held online only
The popular event, slated for June 13, will be a virtual drawing this year because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Baxter State Park shuts down camping and traffic
The park’s two gates are closed and only walk-in day hikes will be allowed – likely until at least July 1.