Charlie Eichacker
Digital News ReporterCharlie joined Maine Public at the start of 2021, after spending more than seven years writing for newspapers in Maine and Vermont. His stories earned several top honors from state and regional press associations.
Charlie has a bachelor's degree in English from Colby College and a master's in journalism from Columbia University. He taught English in China for two years with the U.S. Peace Corps and now lives in Maine with his wife, their two cats and a dog.
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Three different invasive plants have been discovered on Cobbossee Lake since 2018, including Eurasian water milfoil and its better-known relative, variable leaf milfoil. Climate change is helping such invasives spread on Maine lakes and streams. -
Heavy rain across the western Maine mountains on Sunday caused flooding and damaged some roads. High Street in South Paris was washed out after a four-foot wide culvert failed. -
The new majority owner of a shuttered Hampden waste facility says that it has enough funding and experience to get the plant restarted in the next year-and-a-half. -
An organization representing 115 Maine towns and cities has finalized the sale of a shuttered Hampden waste facility to a new majority owner. -
Conservation groups joined state and federal officials in Rangeley late last week to celebrate the climate and ecological benefits of a large-scale forest conservation project in western Maine. Its completion also marked a milestone for a federal program that made the project possible. -
An April mass shooting has drawn renewed attention to a problem that arises with some regularity in Maine: people banned from having guns because of criminal or civil penalties are nevertheless getting them, and in some tragic cases, using them — contributing to a persistent problem of domestic violence killings and inflaming other forms of crime and violence. -
A waste incinerator in Orrington that has been struggling to repay its debts could go up for auction next month. The facility has faced a series of operating challenges in recent years, and its owners are now trying to find a buyer.
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The Old Town Fire Department says a neighbor reported the blaze around 8 pm and that crews were there for four-and-a-half hours. -
That program has gotten more complex over the years, with a growing variety of plastic, glass and aluminum drink containers that redemption centers must sort into different bins. Lawmakers recently passed a funding boost for those centers. Now they’re looking to go further and streamline the process by which containers are collected and sent back for recycling. -
A bill would add new restrictions on a type of deal that Poland Spring — the biggest water bottling operation in Maine, which pumps roughly 1 billion gallons a year — has struck to buy water directly from some local utilities.
