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December 2
Maine Climate Council action plan is opportunity, say members
Plan's prescriptions create marching orders for urgent work
The Maine Climate Council released its four-year plan for climate action on Tuesday, Dec. 1 the same day 60-mph wind gusts were battering the state. As council member Ivan Fernandez remarked during the public release of the report that the five hottest years in Earth’s recorded history were the last five, the temperature in a number of communities in Maine…
December 1
Port of Halifax expands to handle bigger container ships
Project may reshuffle Maine, Maritime Canada shipping trade
This fall, the Port of Halifax welcomed the largest two containerized cargo vessels to ever make a call on the Canadian eastern seaboard—the CMA CGM Brazil and the CMA CGM…
December 1
Downeast cranberries were a bust, too
Weather didn’t cooperate, and as with blueberries, it impacted harvest
In a good year, Sugar Hill Farm harvests 50,000 to 80,000 pounds of cranberries. Not surprisingly, 2020 has not been a good year, even for Maine’s drop-in-the-bucket cranberry industry. Too…
December 1
Success is a bit more than roll of the dice
When doors close, it’s time to write another ending
The fighter is paralyzed, the mage unconscious. The rogue will be too, soon. And the undead monster is still attacking us! Desperate, the rogue seizes her herbalist’s kit. It’s not…
December 1
What can we learn from Maine’s coastal vote?
Demographics, not values, seem to tell the electoral story
Do elections hold a mirror to our values, fears, dreams, and desires? Or do the choices we make on the ballot drift this way and that, just as our tastes…
December 1
Island Institute awarded energy contract
Effort aimed at helping islands find clean, secure systems
The Island Institute is one of five organizations in the country to be awarded a contract by the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project, or ETIPP. As a partner in this…
November 30
Truth-telling continues, even in online setting
Island Teachers Conference featured Wabanaki workshop
Education practices have always involved responsiveness and adaptation, but those tenets have taken on new meaning this year. Along with a quick transition to online learning, conferences and professional development…
November 24
Deer Island marks 250 years of endurance
New Brunswick island off Eastport includes several towns
Editor's note: This story first appeared in The Quoddy Tides, and appears here with permission. Until as late as 1770, Deer Island—which lies between Eastport and New Brunswick, and is…
November 24
A return to the joy of cooking and eating
Cookbook from Portland restaurant chefs is appetizing and entertaining
Eventide: Recipes for Clambakes, Oysters, Lobster Rolls, and More From a Modern Maine Seafood Shack Arlin Smith, Andrew Taylor, Mike Wiley with Sam Hiersteiner Is it because of COVID and…
November 24
A well-lived life in Maine boat design
Noted naval architect Hendel worked in Bath and Camden
Of Watercraft and Function: A Biography of Naval Architect Geerd N. Hendel By Roger Allen Moody A documented, remembered career is a form of immortality. A career as long and…
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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