Penelope Overton
Reporter at The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Ink-stained journalist @PressHerald in Maine. Now: environment and climate. Then: lobster, cannabis, politics.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Penelope Overton
May 2—Federal funding for Maine Sea Grant has been restored. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration informed the University of Maine on Monday that it was reinstating all $4.5 million in federal funding it had previously cut from Maine Sea Grant. The 20-person program provides technical and research support to the state's fisheries and coastal economies.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Penelope Overton
May 1—KENNEBUNKPORT — During last winter's storms, rising seas drove the Kennebunk River to a record 11 feet and washed away dozens of local roads, sandy beaches and private homes, reaching such ferocity that it stripped the signature red shingles off a historic beachside hotel.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Penelope Overton
Apr. 21—After nearly three months of frozen payments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled a five-year, $35 million climate-smart agriculture grant to a Freeport demonstration farm. Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment was informed last week that it had lost its grant because its overhead costs exceeded new guidelines set by the Trump administration, Wolfe's Neck communications director Harry Kimball said.
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4 weeks ago |
centralmaine.com | Penelope Overton
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4 weeks ago |
pressherald.com | Penelope Overton
AUGUSTA — Shortly after the sun came up Wednesday, when he should have been watering his greenhouse peppers, Seth Kroecke climbed into his tractor and began a three-hour trek from his Freeport farm to the Maine State House to protest federal funding cuts to Maine farmers.
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