Lucas Fields

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A moored boat is only as safe as its line, chain, and shackle

A piece of hardware smaller than a fist is all that stands between that beautiful sailboat, perhaps costing a couple of hundred thousand dollars, and devastating damage from a collision with the rocky shore. Well, there is something else—someone else, actually—standing between that expensive boat and potential disaster. It’s Fields… SEE MORE
The map shows the approximate route the undersea electric cable will follow from hydro and wind power projects in northern Maine

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Proposed undersea cable would cross Gulf of Maine

The parent company of the electric utility Emera Maine hopes to establish an undersea cable linking electricity generators in northern Maine, Newfoundland, Labrador and Nova Scotia with users in Massachusetts. The 350-mile-long cable would cross through the Gulf of Maine from Coleson Cove, just west of Saint John, New Brunswick,… SEE MORE

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‘The real thing’ sets coastal, island agenda

American life faced a confluence of turbulent forces in 1971. The war in Vietnam was raging, with strong opposition that sometimes resorted to domestic terrorism. The women’s rights movement was emerging, while the push for equity for African-Americans was becoming militant. And a deep worry about the state of the… SEE MORE
Steve Lyons

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On the record with: Steve Lyons of the Maine Office of Tourism

Steve Lyons has been with the Maine Office of Tourism since 1998, working under three directors. With the departure of Carolann Ouellette, he is now the acting director of the small office—which has just seven employees—tucked within the Department of Economic and Community Development. But there’s nothing small about the… SEE MORE