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Like riding a bike

Going green
Last week, glimpses of spring made me eager for the days when I can hop on my bike and go for a long ride without worrying about getting hypothermia or skidding out on salty, slushy roads.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | March 18, 2009

Legislative battle takes shape

Gay marriage
The list of Maine's gay-marriage bill co-sponsors — i.e. , those legislators lending the most robust support to the measure — was released last Thursday afternoon.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | March 18, 2009

Branding our outdoor tourism

Love letters to Maine
Eventually, the folks at Maine Huts and Trails, a non-profit that operates in western Maine, hope to establish a 180-mile trail system between the Mahoosuc Range and Moosehead Lake.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | March 05, 2009

Celebrating identity on Munjoy Hill

The Femme Show
Wild costumes. Barbie dolls and hula hoops, burlesque, dancing, storytelling, acting, and film. All these things, and more, will be part of the Femme Show...

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | March 04, 2009

Saving the earth

Seeing the climate-change forest for the carbon-storing trees.
Former Green gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter's 120 acres in Lexington township will be the first-ever officially designated "carbon sequestration forest." It remains to be seen whether they will also be the only one.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 25, 2009

Hope for young homebuyers

The lousy economy — and Obama's stimulus package — has a silver lining
Good news if you're in a sufficiently stable financial situation to think of bailing from greater Portland's rental-housing morass.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 23, 2009

Growing good air

Going green
What's greener than houseplants?

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 18, 2009

A long-silent civil-rights heroine comes to Maine

Changing history
It's a writer's dream — to stumble across a story, a figure, or a moment in time, that influenced our history but remains relatively untouched by the hands of academia or pop culture.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 19, 2009

Transmission troubles

We're all about wind power — but do we have a way to harness green energy?
Late last month, Maine's second large commercial wind farm officially opened at Stetson Mountain in the eastern part of the state. But for all this potential, both in terms of the power source itself, and the brainpower behind it, Maine risks losing a lot of money.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 11, 2009

Knowing glances

Field notes
Admit it: Even if you've never posted a Missed Connection on Craigslist, or had one written about you, you've probably perused them.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 11, 2009

Hurtin' for a yurtin'

Love letters to Maine
Safe to say, we weren't exactly roughing it.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 04, 2009

Going green: Ghostbusters

Reducing phantom loads
My monthly rent payment includes heat and electricity, a luxury I'm still getting used to at the new apartment I moved into this summer.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 28, 2009

Teach a woman to fish...she'll never want to leave

Love letters to Maine
The cluster of small shacks that comprise Jim's Smelt Camp in Bowdoinham look like a tiny shantytown; were that it was so — I would move right in.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 29, 2009

Slideshow: Smelting in Maine

Ice fishing for smelt
Smelting in Maine

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 29, 2009

Are you a retrosexual?

Facebook's latest erotic application
A few months back, one of my best friends from high school slept with the guy to whom, years earlier, she had lost her virginity.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 22, 2009

Thoughts on the 36th anniversary of Roe V. Wade

Woman rights
To commemorate that anniversary, the Maine Choice Coalition, along with the Maine Civil Liberties Union, the League of Young Voters, and the Portland Phoenix, are teaming up to screen the film I Had An Abortion at SPACE Gallery on Wednesday, January 28.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | January 21, 2009

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