Alex Seitz-Wald

1 week ago | midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald

The humble farm stand is getting a glow up as farmers look to offer customers more products and generate sustainable growth in a notoriously challenging business. As the growing season starts, you'll still find plenty of traditional farm stands in the Midcoast that operate on the honor-box system, where you take some produce and leave some bills, but you'll also find a growing number of full-on stores with real human employees handling the cash. kAm%96 ?6H6DE :D 2E pC2C2E u2C>D :? {:?4@=?G:==6[ @?

1 week ago | midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald

Republican former Gov. Paul LePage filed paperwork to run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in Maine's second congressional district, which includes Waldo County. LePage, whose two terms in Augusta thrilled Maine conservatives and outraged liberals, has never really left Maine politics, even though he moved to Florida and declared he was “done with politics" after leaving office in 2019. kAm#F>@CD 92G6 DH:C=65 7@C >@?E9D 23@FE {6!286[ 2 (2E6CG:==6 ?2E:G6[ E9C@H:?8 9:D 92E 324< :?

1 week ago | midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald

CAMDEN —The Trustees of the Camden Public Library announced Friday that they support removing the Montgomery Dam, boosting the controversial plan ahead of a critical June 10 vote. The library is a key voice in the debate because it manages Harbor Park, which runs alongside the dam and waterfall. Philanthropist Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who created the park a century ago, entrusted the library with its preservation and her records.

4 weeks ago | midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald

From old summer cottages built to catch ocean breezes to modern passive houses designed for hyper-efficiency, off-grid homesteads to communal ecovillages, Midcoasters have been experimenting for generations with ways to build and live sustainably in a challenging climate. Long before LEED certifications and Energy Star ratings, hardy Mainers used what they had on hand to make their homes more efficient — and warmer.

1 month ago | midcoastvillager.com | Alex Seitz-Wald

Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree urged constituents at a packed town hall meeting Sunday evening in Rockport to keep turning up at local protests against President Donald Trump. Pingree, a North Haven resident who represents Knox County and Southern Maine in Congress, said she was thrilled to see more than 800 turn out for the session April 13 at Camden Hills Regional High School. kAm“xE >2<6D >6 2 =:EE=6 E62CJ 6J65[ 9@?6DE=J[ E@ D66 E9:D C@@> 7F== @7 A6@A=6[” D96 D2:5] “*@F 42?