Rockville boasts plenty of beautiful spots. There are hidden brooks and crystal swimming holes, unexpectedly dense woodlands and vistas to take your breath…
Columns
Kristen Lindquist: Meditations
A birder friend describes it as "popcorn" — when an active flock of birds is bouncing all around you in the trees like popcorn in a hopper. That's what it was…
Opinion
Camden is widely recognized as a wonderful place to visit. One of Camden's many reasons for that is our downtown. Earlier this year, with the help of residents, business people, property owners,…
UMaine Hutchinson Center Notebook
In this first column in this newly formed PenBayPilot.com, some introductions are in order. The University of Maine Hutchinson Center opened its doors in Fall 2000…
Five Towns Communities that Care
Sexual violence: what is it and whom does it affect? Sexual violence is an act of power that violates a person’s trust and feeling of safety. This happens when someone forces or…
Eva Murray: Industrial Arts
On Thursday, we handed down our packs and bags and coolers, hugged our sweeties and climbed down the ladder from the Matinicus…
Loyal Biscuit Co. and Smokestack Grill teamed together Sept. 19 to host a fundraiser, "Pints for Paws," to benefit P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center (…
Herd on the street
When it comes to discussing documentaries, ditto politics and the most important issues of the day, I refuse to get trapped. I…
A Bird's Tale
A soft plaintive “puwee” echoed in from out over the water as a small group of swift-winged birds, a tad smaller than robins, came zipping in to land on the shore. With their mud-brown backs and…
In business
ROCKLAND – It’s the Humvee of mountain bikes and it carries names like Pugsley, Neckromancer and Moonlander. The Surly Bike Company makes it. It’s a year-round bike, it climbs with ease, and is as…
The ongoing exhibition, "William Wegman: Hello Nature" at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (July 13–…
OPINION: Mack point fuel storage debate
I WANTED TO WAIT until after Sept. 11, a day of remembering, to address one of my utmost concerns regarding the proposed 23-million gallon liquid petroleum…
Peter Ralston: Sightings
I’m about to head to Newfoundland for 10 days of cruising and exploring the southwest coast there. I just ran across this older photograph of mine and it has about it something of the…
DISPATCH FROM ROCKVILLE
THE VILLAGE OF ROCKVILLE is bustling. Kids pile into the one-room schoolhouse every morning while their parents…
The Wood Pile
I can't remember sleeping or eating because I did neither of those things. I remember at some point in the day mentioning to Jessica that my legs were sore and her telling me that I'd been pacing…
Kristen Lindquist: Meditations
On a recent hike on Fernalds Neck Preserve on Megunticook Lake, I heard a loud “peep” from amid the trees. My first thought was “Swainson’s Thrush.” While the song of this Maine breeding bird is a…
The Wood Pile
I was in the Lewiston Public Library and my heart was beating so fast that my neck hurt. I went over my talk in my head, over and over. It was the TEDxDirigo Tryouts…
When most people think of the world’s great migratory wildlife spectacles they might think of herds of zebras and…
