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May 23
A moored boat is only as safe as its line, chain, and shackle
Rockland-area’s Fields Dive Service repairs, maintains, and inspects moorings
A piece of hardware smaller than a fist is all that stands between that beautiful sailboat, perhaps costing a couple of hundred thousand dollars, and devastating damage from a collision with the rocky shore. Well, there is something else—someone else, actually—standing between that expensive boat and potential disaster. It’s Fields Dive Service, and the brother team of Dallas and Lucas…
May 23
Chebeague voters consider solar array for town use
Resident Chris Loder worked with ReVision Energy to plan PVs
Short of slashing municipal services, a plan to reduce property taxes is often just a politician’s hollow promise. But what about doing so by cutting a substantial expense the town…
May 23
Directing community theater in Eastport invigorates
Two plays, simultaneously rehearsed, means tapping local creativity
Reflections is a monthly column written by Island Fellows, recent college grads who do community service work on Maine islands and in remote coastal communities through the Island Institute, publisher…
May 23
Downeast Institute begins expanding facility on Great Wass Island
Alfond, UMaine, bond funding pay for research, residence space
A $1.8 million gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation tops off the funding needed to complete a $5.8 million expansion of the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education.…
May 23
Nothing simple about four walls and a roof
Housing concerns slice in different directions on coast, islands
The 35-year-old recovering alcoholic living in his car as he gets his life back together and the $4 million, seasonally occupied house blocking views of the water illustrate just part…
May 23
Portland pier dredge could use new technology
Contaminated sediments would be buried and capped
On a raw spring day at the beginning of May, a geotechnical team drilled into the ocean floor in the shallow waters just east of the U.S. Coast Guard…
May 23
Proposed undersea cable would cross Gulf of Maine
Atlantic Link aims to bring wind, hydro power to Massachusetts
The parent company of the electric utility Emera Maine hopes to establish an undersea cable linking electricity generators in northern Maine, Newfoundland, Labrador and Nova Scotia with users in Massachusetts.…
May 23
The tragic mistake made by Maine’s first European colony
Blame for failing to integrate with native inhabitants falls on colonists
By William A. Haviland As I read the article on Maine's first European colony in the May issue of The Working Waterfront (“Mysteries of Maine’s first European colony”), which recounted…
May 22
Right whales may be bypassing Gulf of Maine
Endangered species now number 500, but threats remain
The right whale, one of the world's largest and most-endangered marine mammals, is in a slow, precarious recovery. Population estimates hover around 500, a modest gain from the early 1990s,…
May 17
Paul Anderson succeeds Robin Alden at fishery nonprofit
Anderson takes over at Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, formerly Penobscot East Resource Center, on Jan. 1
The Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries (MCCF) has named Paul Anderson as its new executive director. Anderson will begin working at the Stonington nonprofit in September and will fully assume…
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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