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April 1
Grants available for coastal towns
Applications due May 12
The state’s Maine Coastal Program is seeking applications for a new round of coastal grants for fiscal year 2017. The grants are for municipal and regional projects in Maine’s coastal zone. The two types of available grants are Coastal Communities Grants and Shore and Harbor Management Grants. Funding for these technical assistance grants originates from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
March 24
Fishermen can diversify income, presenters say
New opportunities in aquaculture and tourism
Jon Rogers started lobstering in 1967 as a child, with his grandfather. He moved on to gillnetting, shrimping, bluefin fishing and swordfishing on Georges Bank, interspersed with lobster fishing. Still,…
March 24
Fishermen’s forum includes lobster check-up
Settlement of young, reproduction rates, effects of ocean acidification all reported
By Susie Arnold, Ph. D. and Heather Deese, Ph. D. In addition to the news that lobster fishermen’s landings totaled a record $500 million in 2015, there were several science…
March 24
Maine-farmed salmon upgraded to ‘good alternative’ at seafood show
Rating improvement means more sales
By Catherine Schmitt In January, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the institution behind the authoritative Seafood Watch rating system, moved Maine-farmed Atlantic salmon out of the red and into the yellow…
March 23
Chebeague community leader dies at 93
Mabel Knowles Doughty was key figure in secession movement
Mabel Knowles Doughty was 93 when she passed away on Feb. 16 on Chebeague Island, the place she had called home for more than 70 years. Her contributions to the…
March 23
Curtain call: Why we compete in play contest
Island school uses demographic challenges as motivation
March has a lot of signifiers. For some, it heralds the start of baseball season. For others, college basketball’s March Madness is the focus. March is “Music in Our Schools”…
March 23
Domestic violence poses high risks on islands
New Hope for Women works to educate, extricate
It’s late on a frigid winter night, and a woman is sitting alone, an ice pack to her face, looking out the window. Snow swirls on the pavement below, and…
March 23
Education was factor in Fukushima disaster
College of the Atlantic looks to export problem-solving approach
Japan has a complicated relationship with the atomic world. During a trip there in January, I asked many people to reflect on the Fukushima nuclear disaster—what the Japanese refer to…
March 23
Maine’s fertile market, 7,000 miles away
China’s emerging middle class holds enormous opportunity
One of the most fertile markets for Maine-made products is flourishing nearly 7,000 miles away. New prosperity and a growing middle class in China has created unprecedented demand for lobster…
March 23
My time as a wise man
Or, if the wise man’s hat fits…
Editor's note: 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…
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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