I was just thinking a few days ago that it had been a long time since I had seen a moose. So, of course it caught my attention when the newsman on the tv in the other room announced that a moose was stranded on an island in the Androscoggin River between Brunswick and Topsham. This […]
Nothing says “Fourth of July is right around the corner” like Maine strawberries. The sweet gems are one of summer’s many delights in Maine. If you have the time, pack the kids in the car and harvest your own. The Get Real Maine website of the Department of Agriculture is chock full of information on […]
That sound you heard coming out of Brunswick earlier this week was a collective groan over the news that record-setting Bowdoin womens’ basketball coach Stefanie Pemper is leaving Maine. The talented coach has been selected as womens’ basketball coach at the U.S. Naval Academy. In her ten years on the Brunswick campus Stefanie has guided […]
I was fortunate to be asked to shoot a story on the Maine Fiddle Camp for Down East magazine. The story, shot last summer, appears in the April issue of the magazine, which is on the newsstands at this time. I was told before shooting the story to focus on the camp food, and having spent many […]
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m smitten with the new Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory. I’ve been to the top of the observatory at least ten times and I still smile in amazement each time I round the bend on Route 1 and catch my first glimpse of it up ahead. I can’t help but pull […]
Bowdoin College’s advance through the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament came to an end Saturday at the hands of cross-state rival University of Southern Maine. The Polar Bears were eliminated 56-53 when a last-second desperation three-point shot failed.It was the second Polar Bear loss this season against the Huskies, both on the Huskie’s home […]
The Bowdoin College women’s basketball team inched its way into the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament with a hard-fought win Friday night over the University of Mary Washington of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Polar Bear women came out on top 62-54 in a back-and-forth battle; the Polar Bears started slow and […]
Congratulations to the Bowdoin College women’s basketball team, which advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the of the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament with two wins this weekend. This will be the sixth consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearance for the Polar Bears, coached by Stefanie Pemper. Pemper, who is in her eighth year at the […]