“Before the cartels took over, Harvey Prager built a life on millions of dollars of drug money. One prosecutor called Prager ‘the last of the great amateurs.’ This is his story.”
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The Man with a Plan to Save Maine’s Moose Population
“Lee Kantar, the only dedicated state moose biologist in the country, is charged with everything from managing the hunt to countering the deadly onslaught of winter ticks.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
She Was a Quiet Bird Expert. Then She Was Called to Investigate a Murder in Maine.
“How a mild-mannered scientist named Roxie Laybourne created the field of forensic ornithology.”
Posted inFeature
Eight Limes, No More: The Accidental Poetry of Found Lists
A found list is a rare analog window into someone else’s needs—an accidental autobiography, a blank space to be filled with one’s imagination.
Posted inFeature
How Concerned Citizens Drove a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural Maine
Christopher Pohlhaus wanted to build a fascist training compound in America’s whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Care, Out of the Closet
“LGBTQ elders face discrimination in underfunded nursing homes.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Shark Attacks in Maine Were Unthinkable — Until Last Summer
“Last year’s first-ever fatal shark attack jolted Mainers into acknowledging that great whites regularly swim off the state’s shores — and that there’s plenty about them we don’t know.”
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The COVID Cruise Ship and the Maine Fishing Town
“Eastport tried for years to lure mega cruise ships. Then, amid a global pandemic, it got one, along with a skeleton crew of coronavirus exiles.”
Posted inNonfiction
Fugitive Justice
After stumbling upon the scene of the capture of an escaped murderer, clinical social worker Jennifer Lunden grapples with the polarities of innocence and guilt, social neglect and social justice.
Posted inQuotes, Science & Nature
What Is the Hot Commodity, Exactly?
You say seaweed, I say fish, let’s call the whole harvest off. Welcome to the most interesting article on legal tensions around seaweed harvesting in Maine you’ll read all week, and maybe ever.