Meanwhile, in Portland, a special 100-year-old pin oak, known as the Candelabra Tree and familiar to thousands of drivers who pass it in Deering Oaks Park each day, is recovering after the caterpillars ate a number of its buds earlier in the spring. We did a web count in January, and we were really surprised at the numbers, said Jeff Tarling, Portland s arborist.
While at least one third of the tree was missing leaves at the beginning of spring, it has since almost fully recovered, despite dry conditions that inhibited a fungus that curtails the moths from growing. It s probably 80-90% back, you can see the crown s pretty thin, Tarling said in an interview below the tree with NECN and NBC10 Boston Friday.
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Maine’s tallest building OK’d for downtown Portland
The 266-unit, 18 story, 180,000-square-foot building will go up on the site of a small plaza behind the U.S. Post Office at the corner of Federal and Temple streets.
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The Planning Board last week approved a project that would add an 18-story, largely residential high-rise to the corner of Temple and Federal streets.
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Right now it is a small brick plaza at the Federal Street entrance to the United States Postal Services office on Congress Street, but soon it be home to the state’s tallest building.