AUBURN — Maine Conservation Voters is joining the Androscoggin Land Trust in organizing an Androscoggin River Cleanup and BioBlitz from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11. They will meet at Little Andy Park in New Auburn. This will be the Land Trust’s seventh annual cleanup and the first to include a BioBlitz, a […]
Clean up
Woodstock group cleaning up Buck’s Trail
WOODSTOCK — A month after firefighters fought a wildfire along the side of Moody Mountain, a Woodstock resident is organizing a cleanup effort along one of the trails in the area. Jane Chandler said the top of Buck’s Ledge, which is in the area of Moody Mountain, was damaged by a wildfire May 27. Firefighters […]
Cape Cod gear recovery takes 10 tons from sea
PORTLAND (AP) — The Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Mass., says it has removed approximately ten tons of fishing gear and other debris from the ocean floor during its second “Outer Cape Derelict Gear Assessment and Retrieval Program.” Four commercial lobstering vessels from Provincetown took part in the March campaign. A spokeswoman for the […]
Monmouth Cemetery Association upset by student help
MONMOUTH — Students from Monmouth Academy and Monmouth Middle School had no idea that when they spruced up the Monmouth Center Cemetery, they would receive a civics lesson from a disgruntled cemetery association. On Oct. 28, as part of a history lesson, social studies teacher Jocelyn Gray led a group of 15 students on a […]