By David Van Wie Fairy tales about cheap, abundant oil supplies in the U.S. are unhelpful. As a candidate in the House District 105 race, I have been knocking on doors for several months, talking to neighbors in Durham and New Gloucester about issues that concern them.

By TOM BELL Staff Writer The Maine Legislature is set to pass a proposal to reopen the fish ladder for alewives at the Woodland dam on the St. Croix River, effective May 1.

By JOHN HOLYOKE Over the past couple of centuries, Maine's previously free- flowing rivers and streams have been altered in hundreds of ingenious ways, by man and beast alike. Beavers, nature's engineers, do what they do to survive.

The Maine Chamber of Commerce today recognized Gov

By KEVIN WACK Staff Writer Staff Writers Gregory D. Kesich and Paul Carrier contributed to this report. Weeks after John Eder was elected to the Legislature for the first time in 2002, he told a reporter that he would not be driving from his Portland home to the State House.