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 visitors for a free, short, 90-minute guided walk which begins at 11:30 a.m. on Stonington’s Commercial Fish Pier and ends at 1 p.m. at the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries…

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…

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…

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…

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…