Quahog Bay Conservancy staff Alec Bolinger

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Sea to soil: invasive crabs turn fields green

KELLI PARK Sarah Matel, left, a fruit and vegetable farming intern, and Tom Prohl, fruit and vegetable production manager at Wolfe's Neck Center, empty crates of green crabs into the manure spreader. Story and Photos by Kelli Park It sounds like the elements of a macabre ritual—green crabs, a wood chipper,… SEE MORE

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Remembering Kristin Rohrbach-Westra

Editor’s note: Kristin Rohrbach-Westra, who had taught at the Chebeague Island School, died Oct. 1. Police reported it was a suicide. The following remembrance was written by Ruth Kermish-Allen, executive director of the Maine Math and Science Alliance and a former education director at the Island Institute, publisher of The Working… SEE MORE
Tom Moore

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Tom Moore and the Midcoast school of wheelbarrow poetry

By Dana Wilde Every Tuesday morning, Belfast’s poet laureate makes his way to the Belfast Free Library, where he holds “office hours.” He doesn’t like the phrase “office hours.” Sounds suspiciously like lectures might be involved. He’s stuck with it, though.  Anyway, a group of poets, of all shapes, sizes,… SEE MORE