Maine News Sunday

Press Herald 

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Friday reopening a huge swath of protected sea in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing. Trump said the move would reestablish fishing in a marine national monument off the New England coast, a nearly 5,000-square-mile preserve east of Cape Cod that was created by former President Barack Obama. Trump rolled back protections in the area in 2020 and President Joe Biden later restored them.

Many of the Maine residents arrested during an immigration enforcement operation last month were processed at a facility in Massachusetts that attorneys warn has deplorable conditions and is not set up for extended detention. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled all of its detainees out of the Cumberland County Jail, many of them were moved to a field office in Burlington, Massachusetts, about 100 miles from Portland.

Peggy Grodinsky, Press Herald -  Marital strife in the garden, I’ve read, is a thing, with couples arguing over division of labor, budget, likes and dislikes, and in our case, time management. 

Riley Brannigan, who works in the gift shop at Allen, Sterling & Lothrup nursery in Falmouth, has seen it firsthand: One half of a couple piles up an ambitious heap of seed packets and pricy garden tools. The other applies the brakes. Friction, if not outright disagreement.

That said, the four couples I interviewed ahead of Valentine’s Day to ask how they get along in the garden are models of harmony.  MORE