Let's see if we can find a place:
"Public art project in Maine stirs public debate; Retailers ask city to remove piece" by Travis Andersen, Globe Staff | September 17, 2010
City officials in Portland, Maine, are mulling a proposal to either move or dismantle a public art project designed by a Boston-area architect, on the grounds that the piece has become an eyesore and requires too much maintenance, a top official said....
The project was designed by Shauna Gillies-Smith, founding principal of the Somerville-based architecture firm Ground Inc., who has taught at Harvard University, according to the school’s website....
Gillies-Smith did not immediately return messages seeking comment yesterday. She is listed on the Harvard website as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Design, and is working on projects throughout the United States, Canada, and the Persian Gulf, according to her online biography.....
Degree is design, huh?
And the design sucked?
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Let's see where we can find some food:
Members of Maine’s Passamaquoddy Tribe say they will continue fishing in federal waters even though the federal government has warned them not to. Fred Moore, a commercial fisherman and member of the tribal council at Pleasant Point, told the Portland Press Herald that no fishing treaty exists between his tribe and the state or federal governments. He says the Passamaquoddys have been forced to fish in federal waters out of economic necessity (AP)."
I thought government was supposed to serve us.
Let's build a fire to fry 'em:
"State bans firewood imports to bar pests
An emergency order banning out-of-state firewood was signed yesterday by the director of the Maine Forest Service, as the state works to keep out invasive insects. In signing the order, Alec Giffen said infestations by the Asian longhorned beetle and emerald ash borer had struck neighboring states.
Related: Worcester's Battle Plan For Boston Beetle War
Maine officials said that with 90 percent of the state covered by woodlands, the impact of an infestation locally would be significant. A three-day out-of-state firewood exchange at the northbound Kittery rest area on the Maine Turnpike has been scheduled for Labor Day weekend to allow people to dispose of any wood that might have been brought from outside the state.
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Also see: Around New England: Maine Makes MSM Monitor See Red
No cooking today:
"Rare calico lobster spared from kitchen
A rare mottled orange-and-black calico lobster caught off Cape Elizabeth is being spared. Portland Lobster Co. is holding the crustacean until Larry and Crystal Dunne of Saco can find a home. Diane Cowan, lobster scientist and founder of the Lobster Conservancy in Friendship, said only albino lobsters are rarer than calicos. She said a blue lobster is one in a million and a yellow or orange one is one in 30 million. She has seen only two or three calicos in 25 years (AP)."
"Lobsters, 3 tons, lost in Maine fire" by Associated Press | September 7, 2010
ROCKLAND, Maine — Three tons of lobster have gone up in flames in a fire at a storage building in Rockland.
It took firefighters about two hours to extinguish the Sunday afternoon blaze at an industrial park warehouse used by a lobster company owned by Linda Bean. She is the granddaughter of L.L. Bean, and has a business called Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine....
Rockland’s fire chief says the fire was accidental and caused by an electrical problem....
--more--"Also see: Lobsterman Losing Way of Life
Boston Globe Hauls Up Lobster Trap
Now I don't know what to order.
