For years, I have considered myself to be pro-environment. Yet, I am now in strong opposition to commercial wind towers. Greenwood is a proposed CWT site, with 17 towers, each 600 feet tall. Electricity generated would be sold to Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. It is not for Maine. I oppose CWT because Western Maine […]
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Posted inBethel, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Looking ahead to Sunset Farm’s next 200 years
BETHEL — Western Maine’s early settlers built homes and barns meant to last, sturdy structures perched atop solid fieldstone foundations. But over the course of nearly 200 years, even the best-laid stones can begin to topple and shift, and that was the case for one of Bethel’s most iconic barns. Tony Shepley and his family […]
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Getting campy at ‘Camp’ Camp, western Maine
Tucked on the edge of western Maine, 45 miles from Portland, ‘Camp’ Camp bills itself as “America’s premier summer camp for LGBT adults.” Within Maine, it flies a bit under the radar. At camp itself, it’s anything but. There’s swimming. Softball. Sailing. Lip-sync battles. Drag bingo. A big Talent/No Talent Show. “This is really the […]
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Face Time: Martin Royle — from the British Army to a Maine state trooper
Martin Royle was born and raised in England and served 23-and-a-half years in the British Army. Along the way, he married a Mainer. In 2009, they bought a camp here as a seasonal retreat. “Every year we would come over in the summer, whenever we could really, it got harder and harder for me to […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley, The Franklin Journal
Western Maine candidate forum on public education Sept. 25
LEWISTON — A legislative candidates’ forum focused on K-12 education is being held Thursday, Sept. 25, in Lewiston, bringing together those running for the Maine House and Senate in Western Maine and the school boards and superintendents from the districts they serve. The forum is scheduled to run from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Mud season declared over; Roxbury ATV trail system open
ROXBURY — Despite days of rain, mud season officially ended for Roxbury all-terrain vehicle trails early Friday morning. The ATV motoring public can now drive about Roxbury trails. Michael Worthley, president of the Roxbury ATV Riders Club, said the club opened the extensive and popular trail system at 5 a.m. Friday. On May 7, Worthley […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Pothole season underway in Lewiston-Auburn, but not farther north
RUMFORD — Many westbound drivers negotiating Route 2 at the intersection with Lincoln Avenue on Tuesday couldn’t avoid a cluster of potholes. But between gaps in traffic, drivers swung into the opposite lane to avoid the mess, trying to save nasty yanks on their shock absorbers and suspensions, and scrapes on their undercarriages. Maine’s pothole […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Too risky, too young
New survey highlights troubling trends among western Maine teens, tweens One in five western Maine middle school students has seriously thought about committing suicide. The same students were more likely than peers across the state to admit to having huffed paint, smoked marijuana, had sex, gambled or driven with someone drunk or high. In Oxford […]