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December 6
The other side of Land for Maine’s Future
‘Hidden’ provision retains right to trap on land
This summer, $40 million was added to the state budget for the Land for Maine’s Future program, normally funded by a bond submitted to voters. No reason was given by the legislature for this change, but recent history may have been a guide. In 2019, a similar LMF bond was considered by the legislature’s appropriations committee. Legislators carried it over…
December 6
Much to gain by embracing the unknown
New Island Fellow is also embraced by Machias community
Reflections is written by Island Fellows, recent college grads who do community service work on Maine islands and in coastal communities through the Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront.…
December 6
‘Citizen’ Hearst and the state of the news
Where evolving media will land isn’t clear…yet
Take a journey with me, back to the year 1247. We’re in a walled city in what today is Belgium, and like many towns, it employs a town crier. Let’s…
December 6
More Maine voices: tales from here, everywhere
Second volume of stories reflect COVID, magic
Most of the 16 stories collected in North by Northeast 2: New Short Fiction by Maine Writers are set in Maine, and most of them approach their subject matter fairly…
December 6
The Midcoast’s master of realistic sci-fi
Stories and novellas evoke supernatural, apocalyptic life
The Best of Elizabeth Hand By Elizabeth Hand, edited by Bill Sheehan (2021) Death, darkness, dismay, and the supernatural are hallmark characteristics of Elizabeth Hand’s highly literary weird fiction, and…
December 6
A tasty how-to: Maine’s homegrown food
Cookbook offers guide to local fare
The Maine Farm Table Cookbook: 125 Homegrown Recipes from the Pine Tree State By Kate Shaffer (Countryman Press, 2021) The Maine Farm Table Cookbook, part of its publisher’s “Farm Table”…
December 6
Boatbuilder develops work strategies while navigating ALS
Kathy Walsh wonders about links between toxins and disease
Boatbuilder Kathy Walsh, who was diagnosed with a motor neuron disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis last spring, has developed strategies to continue working despite increasing weakness in her upper body.…
December 1
GMRI to buy Portland’s Union Wharf
Nonprofit committed to keeping working waterfront
The past and the future of Portland’s working waterfront will be melded together when the Gulf of Maine Research Institute completes its purchase of Union Wharf from the Poole family,…
December 1
Bar Harbor voters cap vacation rentals
New rule exempts owner-occupied units
In a referendum on Nov. 2, a strong majority of Bar Harbor voters chose to cap the number of vacation units at 9 percent of the town’s total number of…
December 1
Salmon facility critic says technology unproven
I wish to thank The Working Waterfront for allowing me to comment (op-ed, November issue) on technologies being promised for new large scale aquaculture facilities in Maine. The federal Environmental…
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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