Author: Jim Stepp

On your mark, get set, go.  It is time to start your planning.  As of March 14, 2017, there are only 160 days left before the August 21, 2017, Great American Solar Eclipse.    If you have the ability to travel, make plans to...

Comets are strange things.  The classic definition is that they are icy snowballs traveling through space.  As they get closer to the sun, they heat up and vent material into space and create a tail.  Some of these tails are...

December and January will bring several interesting items to observe, but if you wish to see them, remember to dress warmly.  Northern Maine has a habit of being sub-freezing and even sub-zero during these months, so keeping...

It’s hard to believe, but it is almost here: the end of the semester. This point of the academic semester fills faculty, staff and students with fear and excitement.  The fear comes from the fact that there is so much to get...

Wow, after 16 months of campaigning the 2016 presidential election is finally over.  When I listen to the voices of people around me, I hear fear and excitement; I hear sadness and happiness; I hear concern and hope.  The...