Aroostook County
Food and Drink: Best of the Rest
snack Fox Family Potato Chips The Maine potato is such an icon, such an enduring and delicious epitome of starchy goodness, and the Fox family, of Aroostook County, has been growing potatoes for so long (since the 1800s), that you begin to wonder why they waited to get into the chip business. No matter.
Coastal Living
This daybook is a true companion - and excellent teacher - for life on the Maine coast.
Musing from Maine
Down East's editors discuss an odd township, the County's harvest break, pesky pigeons, and more.
GrowSmart Looks to October Summit
Submitted by Christian McNeil on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 5:28am.
As I alluded to in our inaugural post , GrowSmart Maine is contemplating two “sequel” reports to “Charting Maine’s Future,” our 2006 collaboration with the Brookings Institution.
One, "Governing Maine in the 21st Century," aims to craft a long-term plan for modernizing Maine's governments, at all levels. Instead of responding to shortfalls with meat-cleaver cuts, this report will aim to create a productive, farsighted plan that actually makes government
- Christian McNeil
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Milfoil, Mud and Muffins
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 12:08pm.There’s plenty of reasons to be annoyed at Eurasians. Their culture is older than ours. Their money is worth more than ours. They can’t make up their minds which continent they live on. And their milfoil is more invasive than ours.
On Aug. 1, Eurasian milfoil was discovered in Salmon Lake in North Belgrade.
It’s only the second time that plant, described by state officials
