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December 1
GMRI to buy Portland’s Union Wharf
Nonprofit committed to keeping working waterfront
The past and the future of Portland’s working waterfront will be melded together when the Gulf of Maine Research Institute completes its purchase of Union Wharf from the Poole family, owners of the historic wharf since at least 1861, later this year. GMRI announced the impending purchase on Nov. 15. Speaking a day later, the Institute’s president and CEO Don…
December 1
Bar Harbor voters cap vacation rentals
New rule exempts owner-occupied units
In a referendum on Nov. 2, a strong majority of Bar Harbor voters chose to cap the number of vacation units at 9 percent of the town’s total number of…
December 1
Salmon facility critic says technology unproven
I wish to thank The Working Waterfront for allowing me to comment (op-ed, November issue) on technologies being promised for new large scale aquaculture facilities in Maine. The federal Environmental…
November 17
Maine ports avoid shipping delays… for now
Ancillary businesses hurt from reduced cruise ships
Off the coast of Southern California, there is a sizable fleet of container ships with as many as half a million containers waiting to make port. Meanwhile, a major terminal…
November 17
UMaine student studies Greenland lakes
Carbon capture or release is question investigated
Next April, Václava “Vendy” Hazuková will go to an arid, treeless area in West Greenland to solve a puzzle. It’s not known how lakes there contribute to Arctic carbon cycling…
November 17
Whiteness and Maine’s ‘distinct alien race’
Bias against French-Canadians ran deep
A Distinct Alien Race: The Untold Story of Franco-Americans By David Vermette (2018) Growing up in the Midcoast, the only thing I knew about French-Canadians was what I learned from…
November 17
GMRI to buy Portland’s Union Wharf
Nonprofit committed to keeping working waterfront access
The past and the future of Portland’s working waterfront will be melded together when the Gulf of Maine Research Institute completes its purchase of Union Wharf from the Poole family,…
November 17
‘Contagiously positive’ Saltonstall honored
NRCM gives him People’s Choice award for energy work
When it comes to climate change and our progress in addressing it, sometimes all we hear is how bad things are. It is, after all, a formidable situation which requires…
November 10
On the record with… Penobscot Bay pilot Dave Gelinas
Guiding foreign tankers to port keeps fuel flowing
Without Maine’s shipping ports, many home heating oil tanks would run dry this winter. Without trained pilots, who take the "con" of tankers, guiding their navigation as they make their…
November 10
A tale of summer folk and ‘the help’
Contentious relationship that lasted decades
Last April, before heading up for the summer, Rutherford “Ruthie” Lodge, age 99, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., settled down to reflect on the passing of Hannibal McDougal who had died…
Island Postcards
EPISODE 10: Keep the Light Shining
Two ambitious young women swam around the entire Island of Isle au Haut during the summer of 2019 to raise money for crucial renovations to the lighthouse.
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