ROCKPORT On February 12, 2021, Town Manager William Post and Select Board Chair Debra Hall presented Rockport Postmaster Steve Culpovich with an Honorary Rockport Resident award for his exemplary service to the residents of Rockport over the past.
ROCKPORT On February 12, 2021, Town Manager William Post and Select Board Chair Debra Hall presented Rockport Postmaster Steve Culpovich with an Honorary Rockport Resident award for his exemplary service to the residents of Rockport over the past.
MIDCOAST A total of 96 businesses in Lincoln County received aid money from the Maine Tourism, Hospitality & Retail Recovery Grant program.
Funding for the program originated from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund with funding being provided to the first 2,500 approved applications from eligible tourism, hospitality and retail businesses in the industries of accommodation and food services; breweries; wineries; distilleries; retail trade; arts; entertainment; and recreation.
Applicants must have gross sales between $24,000 and $12 million annually and suffered a 20% or greater loss in gross sales as reported to the Maine Revenue Services on sales tax returns comparing either March 2019 through September 2019 to March 2020 through September 2020, for monthly filers, or April 2019 through September 2019 to April 2020 through September 2020, for quarterly filers.
Ask Maine Audubon: Know when you are too close to that snowy owl
Your wildlife questions are answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox.
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A rare snowy owl sits on a chimney in Biddeford Pool shortly after sunrise in late December.
Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
Hi! I’m a resident in Fortunes Rocks (in Biddeford), and I’m really worried about the snowy owls. The past few weeks there’s been a huge spike of people coming to take pictures of them. Recently I saw nine photographers circled VERY closely around one owl who was on the ground. Some people come back every day and follow them around for hours. Is this safe for the birds? Does this disrupt their feeding and other important behaviors? Is it weird that they’ve been letting people get so close to them? Or is that normal behavior for animals from places with very few people? Hoping you have some words of wisdom that can maybe ease my anxiety about this. If the birds are OK, then I’m OK
Great Linford Manor Park dredging scheme underway January 21, 2021, by Eldin Ganic
The ponds at Great Linford Manor Park have now been dredged, the Milton Keynes Parks Trust reports.
The Water Garden ponds, outside the Almshouses, had many decades of silt in them, which clearly evident from how much of it has been excavated and is now spread around their banks.
This had built up from the leaf litter dropping in from the trees overhead and made them very smelly in the summer months.
Back in February 2020, the Trust removed the self-seeded, overhanging trees to bring more light into the ponds and to allow them to restore their historic walls, which were being damaged by the tree roots.