In Portland, a community pool will be closed this summer because the city has not been able to hire enough lifeguards. Six state parks have no lifeguards signed up for their beaches.
A few weeks ago we wrote about a rare ash-throated flycatcher that should have been in Mexico on its wintering range but that had appeared in Biddeford Pool. As we noted, there is pattern of rare flycatchers showing up in Maine (and other parts of.