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A 25-page Maine Rail-Trail Plan 2020-2030 has been released and is available for download and review. The plan was developed by the Maine Trails Coalition (MTC), which draws together multiple Maine interest groups and citizens in a coordinated statewide effort to expand, connect, and maintain Maine’s network of off-road trails. MTC’s interests and participants span…

[Ed. Note. One of the three women this article features is our own Carole Brush, the Executive Director of the Eastern Trail Management District. Carole’s story appears last in the article] Maine Women Magazine July 2020 |  By R. Cook Kristine Keeney, Carrie Kinne, and Carole Brush are three Maine women who find themselves in…

[Eds. note: This article makes many references to the Eastern Tail Alliance’s Maine Lighthouse Ride and Bob Bowker, the founder of that ride and long time ETA Trustee and officer.] Cycling advocates think a more bike-centric culture could take hold in Maine as a result of the pandemic. By Deirdre Fleming, Staff Writer Maine Sunday…

Welcome to spring on the Eastern Trail – the birds are singing, peepers are peeping and ticks are coming out of hiding. Fortunately the trail is wide enough to accommodate trail users while keeping 6′ apart.  You can limit exposure to ticks by maintaining a similar distance from long grasses, undergrowth, marshes and wooded shrubs….

Take a look at this excellent “Week-A-Year” video put together and shared by Dave Read of the East Coast Greenway Alliance. Nine years ago, riders started at the Canadian border in Calais, Maine and began a ride south along the 3000-mile East Coast Greenway. They rode for a week each year. For example, they biked…

[Eds. note: This article addresses issues on segments of the East Coast Greenway in Maine, of which the Eastern Trail is a major segment.  It also addresses legislation currently being considered, LD 2124 – “An Act To Create the Rail Corridor Use Advisory Council Process.”  This bill’s passage will set up a process at the…

[Eds. note: The Eastern Trail is featured in this local television spot starting at approx. 3:34 and ending about 6:10. The show covers both the Gap Tracks UNE wildlife study on the Eastern Trail, as well as the Close the Gap campaign. You can view the spot here.] On this episode of “Total Maine with…

Mirage News, February 5, 2020 Noah Perlut, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, recently met up with WMTW anchor Steve Minich in Scarborough to discuss the GapTracks project. Perlut and students in his Terrestrial Wildlife class are studying the impact that connecting two sections of the Eastern Trail in Scarborough will have…

Voters in Arundel overwhelmingly have approved funding for a project to build a new 7,000-square-foot municipal building. The site of the new Arundel Town Hall is on Limerick Road about a quarter-mile south of the existing town municipal building. Land for the project was purchased in 2017 in partnership with the Arundel Conservation Trust. The…