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Everything You Need to Know Today9/2 10:57 AM The latest forecasts for Hurricane Earl have the storm coming nearer than any hurricane since 1991. Here are the latest predictions and stories. 9/2 8:58 AM Aroostook County is expecting a good potato harvest and, like everything else in this unusually warm summer, it's a week or more ahead of schedule. 9/1 10:06 AM The Narrow Gauge Railroad Co., which has offered train rides on Portland's waterfront for 19 years, is weighing a move to the suburbs. 9/1 9:32 AM The next Maine Legislature will almost certainly consider a ban on texting while driving. 9/1 8:58 AM Maine emergency responders are making sure they'll be ready if Hurricane Earl hits the state.
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Will Maine lobsters prefer tofu over rotten herring? It’s enough to make a grizzled Down East lobsterman turn in his traps — researchers at the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute are searching for an alternative to well-aged herring as lobster bait, and they’re looking at soybeans. “In many of our trials, we’ve caught more lobsters with soybeans than we did with herring,” reports Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute.
Dispatches from Down East
The last time Maine saw three consecutive 90 degree days in a row was in Portland in 1999, according to the Bangor Daily News. So that makes this the first heat wave of the millenium. I'm not sure what that means exactly except that it's hot. I, along with many others, fled the Down East offices in search of some-place cooler to work. I ended up at Zoot in Camden, where I am writing this, which is air conditioned and which has delicious iced cofee.
And to think, at the beginning of this week I was imagining picking apples and sitting in the cool evening air, wearing a fleece, building a fire in the fire pit. Down East's facebook users are feeling the same way as I am too, it seems. Most of them say this is too hot too late in the season, and they too were wishing for a calm, cool, and quiet looking-foreward-to-fall kind of weekend.
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