Staff scientist Mike Doan collects water quality data from Friends’ research vessel, R/V Joseph E. Payne using a data sonde, a device that measures temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and other parameters.

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Casco Bay data shows rapid warming

“This rise in water temperature marks an enormous shift,” reports Mike Doan, staff scientist with Friends of Casco Bay. SEE MORE

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A well-deserved poetic tribute

Wedmore brings these women alive with vivid descriptions of their experiences and their emotional underpinning. SEE MORE

An employee of Lyman-Morse in Thomaston carries a boat stand. PHOTO: JACK SULLIVAN

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Maine boatbuilding: Busy, but fraught

According to the industry trade association Maine Built Boats, boatbuilding in the state generates annual industrywide sales of more than $650 million and some 5,000 jobs. SEE MORE

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Home, again, to Matinicus

Not surprisingly, traps and boats and fishing have been a big part of Scott’s life, though that life took him far from the Gulf of Maine. SEE MORE

Port Clyde, 1993, by Malcolm Morley (oil on canvas, 38 by 52 inches Private collection, Maine). Copyright the estate of Malcolm Morley.

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Malcolm Morley’s Port Clyde collage

An artist with a checkered past—he served time in a U.K. reform school and prison before finding his way to art school and subsequent fame as a painter in New York City—Morley became a U.S. citizen in 1991 at age 60. SEE MORE

The shadows of two boys whose futures lay in the marine industry are visible in this photo, circa 1948, along with a lobster boat being dragged to its winter home at Snow Marine Basin. PHOTO: PENOBSCOT MAINE MUSEUM COLLECTION

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A future in boats and photos

After World War II, Bert Snow and Maurice McKusick partnered with Alfred Storer and Ralph Cowan to develop the Snow Marine Basin at the site of an old lime kiln... SEE MORE

Bernard Henderson poses with his smelting shack on the Sasanoa River in 1962. PHOTO: MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM

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A traditional winter fishery in decline

A resident of Phippsburg, he set up his shack on the Sasanoa River between the towns of Woolwich and Arrowsic SEE MORE

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Southern Maine harbors to get their own dredge

A dredge is a critical tool for moving sand on a regular basis to reinforce the shoreline at Camp Ellis and other communities, much like places do in Cape Cod and Florida SEE MORE

A rock cliff and sandy shore on the east side of Sears Island. FILE PHOTO: TOM GROENING

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Offshore wind blows across Searsport

Have you heard there’s another plan to develop Sears Island in Searsport? The state is considering using 100 acres or so on the western shore as a site where enormous floating wind turbines will be built and then deployed to the Gulf of Maine as part of Maine’s renewable energy… SEE MORE

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Mouth-watering recipes for a cause

Whole meals can be constructed, appetizers to dessert, with mixed drinks thrown in. SEE MORE