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November 23
Arts booster finds Eastport 'stunning, mysterious'
Island Institute arts fellow Tarah Waters works in many settings
In September, Tarah Waters began work in Eastport as an Island Fellow through the Island Institute (publisher of The Working Waterfront). Waters is a Colorado native and graduate of Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I. with a B.A. in international studies. SEE THE SLIDESHOW Her work is focused on Eastport’s growing arts community, and she is serving as one of…
November 23
Caring for elders focus of island conference
Sixth-annual retreat sponsored by Maine Seacoast Mission
Islanders working on similar problems in isolation is almost always improved when islanders gather to compare notes. That was the idea behind a now-annual retreat for those who care for…
November 23
College of the Atlantic students part of Paris U.N. climate talks
Students work to have impacts to poor considered
A delegation of 17 students from Bar Harbor's College of the Atlantic is in Paris this month to participate in the latest United Nations climate summit, a two-week session expected…
November 23
Deflated, but not defeated
Island neighborliness extends to ferry line
Editor's note: Reflections is a monthly column written by Island Fellows, recent college grads who do community service work on Maine islands through the Island Institute, publisher of The Working…
November 23
Embracing Halloween brings out the best in islanders
Family fun, grown-up fun and the sense to clean up the mess
Drugstores are already sporting Christmas goods as I write this—or so I hear—but I’m still reeling from North Haven Halloween. There’s something about a holiday that gives us islanders an…
November 23
From seed to fruit, islands good hosts to apples
Cold winter helped reduce insect attacks
Fall has been a season of superlatives in the Cranberry Isles. Along with a November that might turn out to be the warmest on record, in Maine, the foliage has…
November 23
Going coop—employee ownership sustains business legacy
Baby boomers should consider coops as succession mechanism
The effort to sustain our communities and their economic and civic life for future generations scored a significant victory recently on Deer Isle. The employees of three retail businesses—Burnt Cove…
November 23
John Denver: No longer a guilty pleasure
Songs that Dad passed onto me live on in my heart
Back in October, I took my dad to see the Portland Symphony's tribute to John Denver. We were celebrating his birthday a little bit early before he went back to…
November 23
Maine's first environmental reporter found 'lost' public lands
Phippsburg's Bob Cummings honored by NRCM for decades of work
The story that would become reporter Bob Cummings’ legacy didn’t set his world on fire when White Nichols walked into the Bath Times office in the early 1960s with a…
November 23
North Haven nurse brings urban experience to island
Nurse practitioner and educator Lorraine Reiser bringing decades of experience
North Haven's newest health care practitioner will be able to compare the urban version of medicine with the isolated, rural version. Nurse practitioner and educator Lorraine Reiser is bringing her…
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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