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June 19
Estuary Beat: Cleaning the Medomak, a beach conference, and fish passage in the Bagaduce
Beaches Conference to address access, erosion The 2017 Beaches Conference takes place July 14 at Wells High School. In addition to a new location, the biennial event has expanded to include coastal New Hampshire. The program for the day is packed full of presentations, workshops, field trips, demonstrations, and exhibits, all opportunities for people interested in beaches and the coast…
June 19
Harpswell facility critical to saving seal pups, other marine mammals
Marine Mammals of Maine has been missing link in state since 2016
Ever since she was a young girl, Lynda Doughty has wanted to work with stranded marine mammals. Today, Doughty is executive director of Marine Mammals of Maine, a federally authorized marine mammal…
June 19
Memoir is a rumination on doing good work
Willey recounts learning, working at Boothbay Harbor boatyard
A Winter Apprentice, by John Holt Willey; Polar Bear & Co., Solon, Maine, 2016; 280 pages, trade paperback, $14.95. In the summer of 1977 John Willey returned home to Maine…
June 19
North Haven school will try magnet program next year
Students would live on-island Monday through Thursday nights
North Haven Community School, Maine’s smallest K-12 public school with an average of 60 students, is seeking mainland students to participate in the pilot year of its new magnet program.…
June 19
Private air-traffic control could impact Penobscot Bay
Life-line Penobscot Island Air might be treated as low priority
By Kevin Waters In 1998, an ice storm swept through Maine, leaving some communities completely inaccessible. Without general aviation, many towns and island communities would have been cut off from resources…
June 19
Swan’s Island students drift from Maine to Europe
Educational Passages has students track boats on Atlantic currents
The advantages of attending a small, island school are many. But often, educators must work to combat the insularity and isolation of those schools. For the Swan’s Island School, a…
June 19
The strange story of the North Pond hermit
Book brings new details to Christopher Knight’s lonely life
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel; Knopf, 2017 …
June 19
Thoughts at my son’s gravesite
A father wonders about the path his progeny took
This column first appeared in the May 18 edition of the Deer Isle-Stonington Island Ad-Vantages newspaper, and is reprinted with permission. By Roger Greene Son, you know I will always…
June 19
Transportation decisions must consider community identity
More lanes and wider lanes is not always the right fix
Here’s a question to ponder, maybe while you’re stuck in traffic this summer: What would Maine be like if the interstate highway system ended in Portsmouth, N.H.? Transportation infrastructure impacts…
June 16
Below decks with a schooner chef
Aboard the Ladona, Anna Miller cooks meals that rival the joy of sailing
You can hear the laughter before you board the schooner, and the mouth-watering scents of bacon sizzling in butter and right-from-the-oven blueberry muffins nearly make you dizzy as you descend…
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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