A couple of years ago, our televisions wooed us with happy advertisements showing glistening ears of bright yellow corn, a marketing strategy encouraging us to imagine a clean, renewable, American-made fuel source that would reduce our dependence on foreign oil, improve air quality, and sidestep runaway price hikes at the local service station because we,
What is “phase separation?”
According to literature provided to fuel dealers by Irving, “Phase separation occurs when the ethanol blended into the fuel absorbs enough water to separate from the gasoline. It only takes a small amount of water to cause phase separation in a tank, making it critical that ethanol-blended gasoline is not exposed to water at any
Land trust to transfer 14 acres to Town of Frenchboro
A decade after the biggest land conservation project in the island’s history, the town of Frenchboro has once again moved to secure housing for current and future islanders. Over the next five years, over 14 acres of land will be transferred from the Maine Coast Heritage Trust to the town of Frenchboro for both housing
Recession makes business even tougher for waterfront boatbuilders
As Richard Stanley has taken the helm of his father’s boatbuilding business on Mount Desert Island, he also has consolidated Ralph W. Stanley Inc. inland in Manset. The consolidation makes good sense. The water lot his father, Ralph, owns in Southwest Harbor is too cramped for tractor-trailer loads, Stanley said. Also, the taxes are high,
No agreement on action regarding lobster task force recommendations
The first page of a report on the Maine lobster industry, created for the governor’s lobster task force, talks about the tensions among different parts of the industry. “Maine’s lobster industry has significant potential to strengthen its economic sustainability and overcome current market conditions, given its uniquely beloved brand and products,” it is stated in
Venturing: A helping hand
FORTUNE, Newfoundland-a visit to eastern Canada can be an object lesson in politics and the assumptions we bring to them. When the Canadian federal government, after years of failed efforts to manage the nation’s magnificent stocks of cod on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, finally closed down the fishery in the 1980s, outports like Fortune
Featured island car: 1957 Dodge D-100
Cranberry Report: Never stop learning
On Little Cranberry Island, service at the Islesford Dock Restaurant ends just before Labor Day, due to the fact that most of the employees need to head back to high school and college. For some of us who are left behind, September instills a yearning to start something new or go back to school ourselves,
Biddeford couple transform former Woolworth’s into performance center
The last rays of an early August sunset seep through the window of the old brick building and illuminate a young woman in a loose-fitting T-shirt finger-picking a brown guitar and wandering through lyrics in a sweet, raw voice. The stage is a simple carpet sprawled across the floor and strewn with an old banjo,
Gambas al Ajillo
Recipe provided by Rich Hanson, chefCleonice Mediterranean Bistro, Ellsworth Garlicky Shrimp is a traditional Spanish tapas dish. Ingredients:1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil1 to 4 tablespoons slivered garlic, to taste1 to 4 tablespoons hot chili pepper pods, to taste1 pound raw shrimp, peeled1 teaspoon sherrysea salt and pepper1 tablespoon coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley Directions:Preheat oven