For those of us who have difficulty finding peace while sitting in one place, clamming can be an unexpected escape. By Kim Gooden On these dark winter evenings, when the end of the day has crept up ...

Yeah, that pond’s okay, but it’s mostly raked out,” the guy at Coop’s Bait & Tackle was telling me. He was right: a few days earlier, I had been standing in nearby Sengekontacket Pond, a tidal pond on ...

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With a rake in one hand and a cooler bag in the other, I climbed out of a kayak ready to go clamming for the first time. I was with 18 others, all ready to rake and probe the sandbars off the warm ...

The man who brutally beat a woman with a brick and embedded a clam rake in her face during a 1991 robbery is to be freed after serving more than 18 years in prison. Eric Shirey was paroled on Oct. 15, ...

Hurrah for the Creans’ Clambake & Rockin’ Lobster Bash. After nine years, they served clams! Always fun, the sold-out fundraiser for Children’s Bureau Orange County moved to Shady Canyon Country Club ...

This morning the dogs ran ahead of me to the top of the hill, the little female catching a scent that sent her deep into the beach plum bushes, and left the old pug out of breath, trying to catch up ...

They fan out in groups, mostly women, plodding in rain boots across the soggy wet sands of the inlet, making the most of the low tide. Hustling along with rakes and buckets, they chat and laugh gaily.