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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 the harbor is full of white caps. He’s been asleep for an hour now. She thinks about leaving, about waking the kids and hustling out the door, and going… where?…
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…
March 23
On the record with... Ivy Frignoca, the Friends of Casco Bay’s new baykeeper
Legal background, island living dovetail with role
The Friends of Casco Bay began 2016 with a new baykeeper, a position the nonprofit has used for 25 years. Environmental lawyer Ivy Frignoca was hired last fall and got…
March 23
Penobscot Watershed Conference: Sharing our Heritage, Challenges, and Future
April 9 event at Point Lookout in Northport
As Maine’s largest river system, the Penobscot River carries a deep cultural and economic history of our region. The future health of this vast watershed will be discussed at the first…
March 23
Portland proactive on immigration, Wiscasset to vote on traffic plan
Blue Hill store boosts wages, DMR honors fisherman
Maine’s role in the major party nomination process has come and gone, with the Democrats picking Bernie Sanders and the Republican faithful choosing Ted Cruz. The GOP frontrunner Donald Trump,…
March 23
State must invest in a digital future
Broadband Internet as essential as roads, electricity to grow economy
Journalists are taught to give readers a human face to the public issues they write about in their news stories. Sometimes, the reporter has to work at finding a “real…
March 23
Tech center students build computers for medical research
SLIDESHOW BY LESLIE BOWMAN Among the students who travel to Calais for a variety of half-day vocational programs at the St. Croix Regional Technical Center, some are linking up with…
March 23
Weakening ocean currents impact New England climate
Gulf Stream changing with warmer water, more melting
North Atlantic ocean currents that are changing because of global warming could be contributing to changes in weather patterns in Maine, scientists say. Melting Greenland and Arctic ice will bring…
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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