Friends of Casco Bay - This year, Maine’s shoreline got a little cleaner and a lot more loved thanks to 316 volunteers who joined us for 26 cleanups and 3 storm drain stenciling events. Together, they hauled more than 10,000 pounds of trash they logged with Ocean Conservancy’s Clean Swell app (plus plenty more we didn’t stop to record)....
Katrina Venhuizan, our 2025 Cleanup Coordinator, loves watching volunteers step back and look at the pile of filled bags after a cleanup. “I like the physical proof of what we’ve done, all these bags of trash,” she says, “and a cleaner shoreline at the end of the day.” Katrina pulls as many recyclables and returnables from the piles of trash as she can, while the trash goes to Ecomaine, where it’s converted into electricity.
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- Following the first snow storm of the season and record-setting low temperatures last week, Maine can anticipate lighter snow showers and nearly as frigid temperatures in the days ahead. Two more systems mid-week will likely bring snow showers across the entire Northeast. Flakes will likely fall on Tuesday night through Wednesday morning, with another system likely following on Thursday.