Alex Seitz-Wald
Deputy Editor at Midcoast Villager
Small-town newspaper editor in Maine for the Midcoast Villager, former national political reporter for NBC News. Dad. Bearded-American. Hobby accumulator.
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2 weeks ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald
There’s late-onset-fame — Morgan Freeman, famously, did not get famous until 50 — and then there’s the “Lobster Lady,” Rockland’s Virginia Oliver, whose breakout moment came when she was twice that age. Around her 100th birthday, an age actuaries say more than 99% of us will never reach, Oliver went viral, in the parlance of this century, for being the world’s oldest lobsterman — and a rare lobsterwoman at that. Fame is something Oliver never sought, however.
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2 weeks ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald
The head of PBS is warning that efforts to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasting could devastate stations in rural states like Maine, where sparse populations often make commercial broadcasting economically unfeasible.
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3 weeks ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald
The historic Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde is temporarily closed as it undergoes repairs from storm damage, with aims to reopen later in June. The lighthouse's famed walkway, featured prominently in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, was damaged by the back-to-back storms that ravaged many Midcoast towns in January 2024. kAmp 4@>A2?J 7C@> $@FE9 q6CH:4< E92E DA64:2=:K6D :? 9:DE@C:4 =:89E9@FD6 C6DE@C2E:@? :D H@C<:?8 @?
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3 weeks ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald
While a certain dam in Camden has gotten most of the attention, voters across the Midcoast will head to the polls on Tuesday June 10 to weigh in on a wide range of issues important to their local communities and wider region. Nearly every town will be voting on routine issues like electing members to the school and select boards, along approving budgets, some are taking up more controversial issues. kA 52E2\DE2CElQdbcQ 52E2\6?5lQhghQmu@C :?DE2?46[ G@E6CD :?
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3 weeks ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald
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My new favorite trade association just dropped. https://t.co/YhtaBmF6nm
I’m out of country so can’t see it in print, but for this week’s @MaineVillager, I talked to quite possibly the world’s oldest commercial fisherman, Virginia “the Lobster Lady” Oliver, who just turned 105 and still insists fishing is not hard work. https://t.co/UR4meeccnw
I’m in Paris and it’s just endless rows of 5-over-1 mixed use buildings with similar designs repeated over and over again with only minor variations. A glimpse into the grim future of America if current urbanist building trends persist. Chilling! https://t.co/vvCwG1UlMw
