As the herring gull flies, it's 1,500 miles between Madison Bay Harbor and the nearest saltwater at Hudson Bay in the Arctic Ocean. Maybe that’s because Madison Bay Harbor isn't a real harbor, and there are neither herring gulls nor saltwater to be found anywhere on the Dakota plains. Madison Bay Harbor is a proposed aquaculture center with big plans…

In the early 1970s, Jon Wilson realized he wasn’t as good a boatbuilder as others whose works he admired. But he was a pretty good thinker about boatbuilding. “At that…

As a child in Eastport, I often heard stories about the Quoddy Project, then not 20 years in the past. The project was going to generate electricity from tides using…

Commercial fishermen now have access to a free app that simplifies required harvest reporting for both state and federally licensed fishermen. Developed by technology company Bluefin Data under a contract…

The Casco Bay Island Transit District—known to most as the Casco Bay Lines that operates ferry service between Portland and a half-dozen islands in Casco Bay—has won a $3.6 million…

Editor’s note: In our last edition, a letter writer suggested that islanders other than the four who write regular columns for us might contribute to our coverage of life in…

The following was published under the “Neighborhood Notes” heading in the Friday, Aug. 2, 1912 edition of the Camden Herald, and is reprinted by permission. The peaceful calm of Dark…

Legislation aimed at modernizing and fixing what is broken in the 1980 Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act is working its way through the Maine Legislature. LD 1626 came through…

Colby College in Waterville has become the new steward of two historic islands where renowned American artist Andrew Wyeth painted some of his greatest works, inspired and influenced by the…

A recent Southern Maine Planning & Development Commission report warned that some 3,500 acres of land in Wells, Kennebunk, and York were at increased risk of flooding because of rising…