Monday, March 25, 2024 Kennebec Sentinel B4 LOCAL MAINE Rich Sentinel Spring-themed decorations and a dog mannequin in the window brighten the sidewalk Sunday for those walking in front of Loyal Biscuit Co. at 109 Main St. in Waterville. SPRINGTIME SNOW, BLOSSOMS She said the combination of win- try precipitation was so heavy it pushed large plow trucks around. Nature has not been kind to Jones said.
get this at the end of March is not very good. You expect this in Augusta had a full plowing crew Saturday and about two-thirds of a crew Sunday, with relief drivers and city workers from the Bureau of Parks Recreation helping to clear the crusty, compacted snow and ice. Sean Goodwin, director of the Kennebec County Emergency Management Agency, said Sunday the heavy, packed snow presented challenges for those shoveling driveways. He said he had not heard of road closures in Kenne- bec County. Most of central Maine was spared widespread power outag- es, according to Central Maine Power Co.
get the Goodwin said. had some pretty good wind, but we have a lot of sticky snow on the lines. That saved us from having power out- As of 10 a.m. Sunday, CMP was reporting about 185,000 custom- ers were without power statewide, mostly in southern and coastal counties. At that time, CMP was reporting fewer than 200 outages in Kennebec and Somerset coun- ties.
was pretty happy with Mike Smith, deputy director of the Somerset County Emergen- cy Management Agency, said. think we were pretty fortunate that it was all Officials said roadways were slippery Saturday. In Readfield in Kennebec Coun- ty, the driver of a pickup truck crashed head-on into a plow truck and came to a stop in an inlet of Maranacook Lake, the Maine State Police reported in a social media post. Despite road conditions, many events planned for Saturday, in- cluding annual town meetings, Maine Maple Sunday Weekend and a youth karate competition in Waterville, went on as planned. On Sunday, sunny skies returned to much of the region.
Warmer temperatures in the mid-40s and rain are expected from Tuesday through Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Casey said flooding from melt- ing snow is not a concern at this point. way looking right now, it looks like more of an unsettled, showery, warm, a couple rain showers each situation be- tween late Tuesday through Fri- Casey said. look like any kind of a Snow FROM PAGE B1 BY JUDITH MEYER Sun Journal WALTHAM, Mass. Lew- of finest jour- iston Evening lon- nalists along the way and gest-serving and most influ- grabbed some astonishing ential editor, Frank Dingley, scoops of his own, including was inducted into the New a firsthand account of the England Newspaper and sinking of the Titanic from Press hall of a former Lewiston resident fame Friday night.
Dingley, who stood as the and who Dingley tracked giant of Maine journalism down within hours of her from the start of the Civil War to the end of the World War was inducted during the journalism or- annual spring convention. of A graduate Bowdoin College in Brunswick, he and his older brother Nelson put together the first edition of the Lewiston Dai- ly Evening Journal as the according to the nomi- Civil War heated up in 1861, nation letter. catching the spirit of the readiness to defend the flag. According to a profile of strictly a newspaper Dingley and his career writ- man and among the great- ten by Sun Journal Staff est of American Writer Steve Collins as part with of the Lewiston newspa- 175th birthday celebra- file, Edward Page Mitchell, tion in 2022, the next 57 a Journal reporter who went years Frank Dingley served on to serve as editor of The as the editor, so Sun in New York City, wrote large a presence in Maine in his memoirs that Dingley that The Los Angeles Sun- focused on the news of Lew- day Times called him iston, where he worked, and philosopher and prophet of Auburn, where he lived in New several years a lovely brick house on the before his death in Collins nominated Dingley now listed on the National for the hall of fame and in Register of Historic Homes. his nomination letter noted that, in its heyday, the Lew- iston Evening Journal was Mitchell began his career of the best and most in- novative dailies in the coun- try.
Dingley mentored some who had survived the wreck arrival in New York City. a reason President Theodore Roosevelt once said there were only two newspapers he read every day: one in Philadelphia, a city far from New En- gland and of no real consequence, and the Lewiston Evening Jour- Not long after death, Journal of Maine History noted that he According to the 2022 pro- north side of Court Street, In his nomination letter, Collins pointed out that under tutelage. In his memoirs, Page said attention mainly given to the local news of the thriving mill city and the adjacent city of Auburn. His vehemence in the pursuit of intelligence, big or little, was boundless, his fertility of expression be- yond exhaustion. He would cheerfully walk miles in mud, if necessary, to cap- ture an item insignificant in any perspective less mi- croscopic than his own.
He would brave storm, flood, snowbanks or fire to get an interview on any subject of contemporaneous impor- A loyal Republican, Ding- ley was a man who listened to all sides, sought out com- promise and pushed for progress with a practical bent. is an Dingley once said, sup- port evolution, not revolu- tion. Had Lincoln vaulted from the auction block of the slave to the emancipation proclamation, the federal union would not have been preserved. is immortal be- cause he embodied the natural law of the political world which declares that to move from one point to an- other, it is necessary to pass through all the intermediate Collins, who accepted hall of fame in- duction on behalf of the Sun Journal, wrote in his nomi- nation letter that are many men and women from New storied past who deserve a place in a hall of fame for journalists who lived and worked in this vital region. Over time, perhaps they will all get their due.
But among those deserving of the honor, few can match Frank Dingley, a journalist to his core who ensured his community thrived under the guidance of his newspa- per and the quality of every issue he Not long before his death in 1918, according to 2022 profile of Dingley, the editor expressed his hope that Lewiston Journal may never grow old and never grow indifferent to its responsibility as a political, social and moral On Feb. 20, 1893, Henry Wing of Lewiston estab- lished The Lewiston Dai- ly Sun. According to Sun Journal archives, George B. Wood became owner of The Sun in 1898 and, soon after, brought his nephew Louis B. Costello into the business as general manager.
In 1926, Wood and Costello bought the The Lewiston Evening Journal from the Dingley family and moved the op- eration from the Dingley Building on Lisbon Street to 104 Park St. The Costello family merged the Lewiston Evening Journal and The Lewiston Daily Sun in June 1989, to become the current Sun Journal, now at 64 Lis- bon St. Reade Brower owned the Sun Journal from 2017 to August 2023; the Sun Jour- This report, written by Sun Journal Staff Writer Steve Collins, nal is now a publication of appeared in the Lewiston newspaper on May 21, 2022, as the Maine Trust for Local part of the 175th birthday celebration. News. Former editor inducted into hall of fame Sun Journal archives Frank Dingley was at Lewiston Evening Journal from start of Civil War to end of World War I DINGLEY of mussels this Young seeds the mus- sels in late August and early September.
It takes 12 to 16 months to grow them to market size, which is 2.5 to 3.5 inches. Young has sounded the alarm about the disap- pearance of wild spat for more than a decade. called me in 2012 and said, having all kinds of problems collecting wild mussel said Beals. the same time I would be getting calls from the St. George River, Milbridge, Stonington, asking, are all the mus- Beals, who believes green crabs are the major culprit, said the warming trend started in the early to mid 1950s.
Soft-shell clams were decimated and green crabs proliferated. in the same spot with he said. Green crabs, he said, are survivors. Although virtually everything in the ocean eats them, the crabs reproduce more than any other species in the marine ecosystem. only thing that can keep them in check is cold Beals said.
we seen cold weather for any extended periods of time in In addition to hunting and eating their prey, green crabs destroy sea- now, as well as getting grass and out-compete things ready for the sea- local species for food son. We will be putting and habitat. They also hatchery seeded lines in destroy eelgrass habitat our nursery as soon as that larval fish use to next he said. hide from predators. Green crabs were in- This story was originally troduced to North Amer- published by The Maine ica in the 1880s, most Monitor.
The Maine Monitor likely in ballast water is a local journalism prod- of merchant ships from uct published by The Maine Europe. They may also Center for Public Interest be transported shellfish, equipment or and nonprofit civic news packing materials in organization. aquaculture operations. Faced with these dual, climate-related threats, Young has successfully revised his operation. are harvesting three times a week right with Reporting, a nonpartisan Mussels FROM PAGE B1 and King said he has made fund- tients enroll at KBH clinics ing mental health resources a show positive impacts.
priority and he hopes to contin- ue addressing the issue at the agency has surveyed 1,185 peo- federal level. Kennebec Behavior- al Health is doing could be a King said. think this could be a great model for the Chapman said surveys con- ducted six months after pa- Since December 2022, the ple, many of whom have report- ed improvements in response people that to questions about their men- tal health, their functioning in Jake Freudberg 207-621-5645 everyday life and their overall well-being, according to Chap- man. a really smart invest- ment for the state of Maine and for Sen. Chap- man said, we can show that it makes a significant difference in the lives of the Funding FROM PAGE B1 I addition to hunting and eating their prey, green crabs destroy seagrass and out-compete local species for food and habitat.
They also destroy eelgrass habitat that larval fish use to hide from predators. Visit us online at centralmaine.com.
