In a landslide 141-4 vote, the Maine House of Representatives voted Tuesday to advance bill LD 718, which would require special labeling for seeds and foods made with genetically modified (GMO) ingredients. … Read More
Federal officials leery of ‘increasingly warm’ coastal waters near Northeast U.S.
Waters off Northeast US coast unusually warm, says NOAA (via The Christian Science Monitor) Copyright ImageClick to View A lobsterman returns an undersized lobster while checking traps in Mount Desert, Maine, in May 2012.(Robert F. Bukaty/AP/File) From North Carolina to Maine, the waters have been…
Stephen King gives ‘substantial’ donation to Maine gun-control group
Author gives five-figure sum to Coalition for a Safer Maine Stephen King, who made his views about gun control clear earlier this year in a passionate essay describing automatic and semi-automatic firearms as “weapons of mass destruction”, has made a “substantial” donation…
Multiple ‘chemical bombs’ explode at Maine middle school
Parents in Bangor, Maine received automated alerts on Friday that at least three explosive devices had gone off at Bangor Middle School. Bangor Public Schools Superintendent Ron Parker confirmed that at least two homemade devices had exploded in a locker at the middle school. Parker said that the…
Maine wilderness hermit captured after 30 years, 1,000 burglaries
You probably haven’t heard of Christopher Knight. Until this week, almost no one had. But for decades there were tales told of “the hermit of the North Pond” — a furtive figure, torn from the pages of a Jack London novel, living deep in the wilderness of central Maine, surviving on wits and what little he would pilfer from nearby campsites.On Wednesday, the Maine Morning Sentinel reported that Knight’s time in the wild had been abruptly ended with an arrest during a burglary last week. He had reportedly committed over 1,000 burglaries over his three decades living in isolation “always taking only what he needed to survive,” the Morning Sentinel noted, reporting that “the 47-year-old hermit now awaits his future at the Kennebec County Jail, where he is being held in lieu of $5,000 cash bail on charges of burglary and theft.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Maine police arrest ‘North Pond Hermit’
Police in the far north-eastern state of Maine have arrested a loner who vanished from sight in 1986 and survived by stealing supplies from area camps, local media reported Thursday. Christopher Knight, the 47 year-old man locals called the “North Pond Hermit,” was arrested last week…
35 Maine lawmakers want to regulate and tax marijuana
Legislation that would legalize and tax the recreational use of marijuana in Maine now has 35 co-sponsors in the state legislature. “Support for changing our marijuana laws is growing as more and more elected officials realize it makes no sense to maintain a system of prohibition for a substance…
