“Catching the Light: The Frenchboro Paintings” by Daud Akhriev at the Island Institute’s Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery in Rockland represents the debut showing of this Russian-born painter’s work in Maine. The exhibition, which runs through Sept. 20, coincides with a feature article on Akhriev written by Scott Sell that appears in the special 25th-anniversary edition
Cranberry Report
This time of year brings back so many good memories. The last weeks of June and the first week of July is when my parents, my brother and I had our turn to use the family summer house on Little Cranberry Island. For the rest of the summer it was either occupied by my grandparents,
Venturing
Go out in a boat on a June afternoon and you might notice something: how few commercial vessels you encounter in the span of a few hours. I’ll dispense with the exceptions right away-lobster boats and ferries are as plentiful as ever on Casco and Penobscot Bays-but otherwise, the amount of water-borne commerce is small
A year after fire, new Matinicus Island Post Office opens
The postal customer crosses the tiny lawn past the blue steel mailbox (which would be out on the sidewalk if we had sidewalks) and the carved wooden sign reading “Matinicus, Maine 04851” and enters a traditional white clapboard house. A small bouquet of lilacs sits on the mantelpiece in what looks like an old-fashioned front
Monhegan Island residents updated on wind power project
Monhegan residents discussed the possible construction of one wind turbine at a special town meeting convened by the Monhegan Plantation Power District (MPPD) on May 28. Around 90 islanders filled the Noveltoo café and heard Dr. George Hart, Jr., chief technical officer of the Ocean Energy Institute, Dr. George Baker, vice-president of Community Wind at
Community celebrates Fox Islands wind power groundbreaking
It has been an extraordinary year for the Fox Islands wind project. On July 28 2008, the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative approved the project by a vote of 383 to 5 on July 28. Just 11 months later, over 120 islanders, officials and project workers gathered on June 29 to celebrate the project’s official groundbreaking.
New affordable housing bond can help coast, islands
A major affordable housing bond that will have a huge impact on housing in the state also has the flexibility to help island and coastal residents. The bond was part of a larger energy bill designed to reduce statewide heating oil consumption by 20 percent by 2020. The bill was passed as emergency legislation, so
Linda Greenlaw: “It’s been a real ordeal”
I’m really happy to have this behind me; it’s been a real ordeal,” said fisherman and author Linda Greenlaw from her home on Isle au Haut on June 11. She was referring to the period which began in September 2008, when-charged with illegally entering and fishing in Canadian waters-she was led into a St. John’s,
New Mainers: Portraits of Our Immigrant Neighbors
Tilbury House, 2009 Paperback, $20 For immigrants, a rebirth in Maine Echoing Hippocrates and Aretaeus (ancient Greek physicians) about the importance of a positive environment on one’s thoughts, emotions and actions, Winifred Gallagher, in her provocative book, The Power of Place, writes: “Burdened with increasingly complex social roles, we need places that support rather than
A passion for cooking leads to island bakery
Postmaster, preschool treasurer, school board chair, library trustee, coordinator of grocery deliveries and telemedicine services, wife, mother of two; it would seem Marissa Rozenski of Frenchboro has enough job titles. But she added “bakery owner” to her list of duties when she opened up the Frenchboro Bakery and Island Candy Shop, a mostly online purveyor