Maine Highlands
Maine's Best Heroes and History
Down East editors' select the history makers that best represent the values found in the people of Maine.
Harold Alfond, RIP
Submitted by Down East on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 12:09pm.
Generally speaking we don't like to give away the stories in forthcoming issues of Down East magazine, but the news of Harold Alfond's death, at age ninety-three, is a special circumstance. Alfond, for those who don't know, was the retired head of Dexter Shoe, a minority owner of the Boston Red Sox, and one of Maine's premiere philanthropists. The Associated Press lists some of his major gifts as $1.7 million for a new gym and recreation center at St. Joseph's College in Standish; $3 million for
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Editors Note
My wife wanted me to clean out some boxes from our shed the other day. I'd promised to get rid of them years ago, but being both a pack rat and a procrastinator, I'd devised ingenious ways to put her off and keep my boxes of worthless loot intact. I tried proposing other tasks to do instead ("Hey, honey,
Letters to the Editor
Where in Maine? The lake featured in your August mystery photograph is Sebago, where my family has vacationed since the 1940s when my mother's family first moved to Portland. It is the only place my immediate family ever went, and I still rent a cottage in East Sebago on the point next to Simpson's Beach.
Is a New Toll Road the Answer?
Submitted by Down East on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 9:39am.
September 13, 2007
The Maine Department of Transportation has a serious problem - too much road and not enough money, a shortfall officials estimate at $162 million a year. New construction has been postponed or canceled, and maintenance of existing roads and bridges has fallen farther behind. For instance, a truly abysmal stretch of Route 1 in Wiscasset is just now being resurfaced, after two years of broken pavement and potholes.
So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to hear Peter
The Maine Department of Transportation has a serious problem - too much road and not enough money, a shortfall officials estimate at $162 million a year. New construction has been postponed or canceled, and maintenance of existing roads and bridges has fallen farther behind. For instance, a truly abysmal stretch of Route 1 in Wiscasset is just now being resurfaced, after two years of broken pavement and potholes.
So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to hear Peter
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Fire Ants Find Maine
If you suspect the ants you see are feisty for more than a bite of lunch, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension offers lab analysis.
Forever Maine
Over twenty years, the Land for Maine's Future program has preserved more than 147 of our most beautiful and fragile places - all thanks to you.
Once a Mainer, Always a Mainer
Elizabeth Peavey, Down East contributing editor, had one goal while growing up in Maine: to get out. And she did. She traveled to Tasmania and to the top of the Isle of Skye. She lived in San Francisco and Boston. But she came home.
