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May 4
Charged winds blowing along East Coast
Wind energy project off Virginia largest in U.S.
Scheduled to begin construction in 2024, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project launched by Dominion Energy is the largest of its kind in the country. A 2.6-gigawatt wind farm that will consist of 176 wind turbines, each standing at around 800-feet tall 27 miles off the Virginia coast, the project also includes three offshore substations that collect the energy, undersea…
May 4
Book introduces Maine to new neighbors
Faces and stories demystify state’s newcomers
Dear Maine: The Trials and Triumphs of Maine’s 21st Century Immigrants By Morgan Rielly and Reza Jalali (Islandport Press) Review by Tina Cohen I’ve just read online that in 2021,…
April 29
Maine’s not-so-clean history on race
KKK to Native genocide part of our heritage
Early in his presentation, Todd Little-Sebold shows a photo of a Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1926 that drew about 30,000. Mississippi? Georgia? Nope. Portland, Maine. The photo often prompts…
April 28
Music to be melancholy by
Oldies show stirs memories of awkward teen years
Whenever I can listen and do whatever else I’m doing simultaneously, I tune in to "At the Hop" on WERU-FM (89.9) on Saturday afternoons. Host Rick Foster’s regard for the…
April 28
An apology and an explanation
Columnist used literary license to satirize male ego
I wrote a column for this, the April issue of The Working Waterfront, a column about the absence of meaningful political discourse, particularly among elected representatives, the people we expect…
April 26
North Haven to offer ‘offshore year’
School recruits high school sophomores for program
Islanders sometimes wryly refer to the mainland as America. If that were true, a mainland student attending an island school would be like studying abroad. North Haven Community School is…
April 26
Living aboard: Damariscove Harbor was a family's home for 16 years
This story first appeared in The Working Waterfront in 2003. John and Robin Hammond lived aboard their wooden 1936 Casey Cutter, at Damariscove Island for 16 years. There, beside a…
April 26
Stonington hosts 'Jane’s Walk' on Saturday, May 7
'Pier to Pier: A Walk Through Time, Fishing, Quarrying & Culture' offers guided tour
Stonington and community collaborators will host on "Jane’s Walk: Pier to Pier, a Walk Through Time, Fishing, Quarrying and Culture" on Saturday, May 7. The event gathers friends, neighbors, and…
April 25
Native stories keep heritage alive
Passamaquoddy tales, from fable to origins
Stories Our Grandmothers Told Us Edited by Wayne Newell and Robert M. Leavitt Resolute Bear Press Review by Carl Little In his introduction to Kuhkomossonuk Akonutomuwinokot: Stories Our Grandmothers Told…
April 20
Whaling ship remains found in Gulf of Mexico
Fate of crew confirmed by newspaper research
NOAA and its partners have discovered the wreck of the 207-year-old whaling ship Industry on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The remains of the 64-foot, two-masted wooden brig…
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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