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July 24
‘Go Fish’ continues to hook customers on Vinalhaven
Rachel Noyes has navigated waters to find niche as island, tourist store
In a time when more and more independently owned brick and mortar shops are closing, Vinalhaven entrepreneur Rachel Noyes is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her gift shop, Go Fish. The shop offers gifts, toys, candy, jewelry, clothing and more, but Noyes says it started with one T-shirt. "I never planned on being a business person," said Noyes. She had…
July 24
Campagnoli’s Home Stretch is Midcoast lyric gothic
Rockland poet’s work drifts between dream and waking worlds
Early in Michael Campagnoli’s The Home Stretch: a cycle of poems, a poem titled “If We’re Not A Dream We’re Nothing” sketches, in 13 short lines, the bleakness and bareness of…
July 24
One more from the road
Dodging storms and scoring scallops
The reader will recall that we, in our 2003 Eurovan VW Camper, had thus far avoided camping altogether for the first four nights of our great camping adventure. Day five…
July 24
Why Long Island seceded from Portland
Twenty-five years later, reasons and benefits recalled
By Mark Greene Were you wondering how Long Island is doing 25 years after seceding from the city of Portland? Well, we’ll offer a polite answer: Not bad, thank you.…
July 18
North Haven Mercantile selling island-made goods
Store features 26 island-based vendors
Shopping options in downtown North Haven have expanded, thanks to two creative entrepreneurs. The North Haven Mercantile, a showcase for island-made goods, has opened its doors. The brainchild of Carrie…
July 18
Reading the ‘priestess of nature’ who took on the ‘elixirs of death’
Rachel Carson’s works on the environment collected in new book
By Tom Walsh If you don’t know much—or even anything at all—about Rachel Carson, here’s your chance. The Library of America recruited the help of editor Sandra Steingraber in recently…
July 17
Angry words exchanged at ferry board meeting
Service staff verbally abused, managers say
Tempers flared at the July 12 meeting of the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board about, ironically enough, angry ferry passengers. The board serves as a citizen advisory group, representing the…
July 11
Frenchboro couple built new lobster boat by kit
Andy Smith finishes Sylvia Mae in time for season
PHOTO: COURTESY KIM SMITH Andy Smith Frenchboro fisherman Andy Smith, his sternman Daniel Saxby, and local contractors were scrambling in late May to finish construction of Smith’s new Mussel Ridge…
July 11
Soft-shell clam population decline calls for cooperation
Multiple approaches seek to determine better numbers, fixes
By Susie Arnold, Jessica Gribbon Joyce and Roger Stephenson Mainers likely have heard about the precipitous decline in soft-shell clam landings over the last five years. While the fishery remains…
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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