Also appearing at the festival were the Sandy River Ramblers, who performed at 12 p.m. and Maine Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma who read from her select work at 2 p.m. Representatives from NRCA ...

In his 1937 book, “Kennebec: Cradle of Americans,” the poet Robert Tristram Coffin called Maine’s sprawling ... important spawning tributary, the Sandy River. Now a confluence of factors ...

In the mountains of western Maine, the rain hit the snow and rushed down steep slopes toward low ground: the Sandy River Valley. The devastation was swift in Phillips, a town of roughly 900 people ...

Maine Department of Marine Resources estimates that 150 Atlantic salmon made it to the Sandy River and its tributaries this past October, nearly twice the number from the previous year.