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$Delmar Levesque of Mildel Farm in Plymouth said that he has lost nearly all of his apple crop this fall due to abnormal spring weather. In a usual season, the 80-year-old farmer will pick 1,500-2,000 bushels, but expects to get a tiny fraction of that this year. Abigail Curtis | BDN$

Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (left) talks with independent U.S. Senate candidate and former Maine Gov. Angus King on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012, before a town hall meeting about the federal debt in Portland organized by the King campaign. Seth Koenig | BDN

One of the old steel "trucks" from the Allagash tramway remains where it was when the 3,000-foot tramway ceased operation in 1909. Julia Bayly | BDN

Steve Barnes (left) and Matthew LaRoche, supervisor of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, look over the newly restored section of the old Allagash tramway. This past summer Barnes led a volunteer crew in refurbishing 25 feet of the 3,000-foot tramway. Julia Bayly | BDN

The old boilers that once powered the Allagash tramway have withstood time and the elements. Julia Bayly | BDN

Looking down the newly refurbished 25 feet of the old Allagash tramway toward Chamberlain Lake, where millions of feet of lumber were transported overland on the way to the mills in southern Maine and beyond more than 100 years ago. Julia Bayly | BDN

Stephen Bowen, the commissioner of the Maine Department of Education, displays an iPad science app during a conference last year in Augusta. Starting this fall, the state will no longer give Maine school systems money to help pay their first-year teachers a state-mandated $30,000 a year. Abigail Curtis | BDN

Dr. Angela Franks (left) and her husband, Dr. David Franks, discuss the psychological, social and spiritual impact of marriage on the family unit during their meeting with area Catholics at the Knights of Columbus Hall (Council 2537) in Old Town Sunday morning, Sept. 9, 2012. John Clarke Russ | BDN

Delmar Levesque of Mildel Farm in Plymouth said that he has lost nearly all of his apple crop this fall due to abnormal spring weather. In a usual season, the 80-year-old farmer will pick 1,500-2,000 bushels, but expects to get a tiny fraction of that this year. Abigail Curtis | BDN

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