Zachary “Buoy” Whitener, from Long Island, just finished his junior year at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to receiving a scholarship this year, he was awarded the Island Institute’s largest award before his freshman year, the Academic and Community Leadership Scholarship. Whitener spoke at the May 31 banquet in Rockland at which
Omission
To the editor: While the May 5th article by Catherine Schmitt regarding Sears Island includes some accurate information, it omits any reflection by those who have been sitting at the table for so long. Our charge has been to construct a conservation easement that complies with the Sears Island Planning Initiative’s Consensus Agreement. After
Environmental Quislings
To the editor, Thank you for Catherine Schmitt’s article on the process to develop Sears Island. As Ms Schmitt mentioned, at Governor Baldacci’s request, over 200 people presented their ” visions” for the future of Sears Island. What makes this rather large number even more significant is the fact that out of the 200
Hard Core
To the editor: I am writing in response to your article by Sandy Oliver regarding our long lost Crown Pilot Crackers. Here on the east end of Long Island other than summer people (or the “summer complaint”) there is a hard core of locals who know a good chowder cracker when they see one.
Depression Perspectives
Where economics are concerned, it can be useful to take a very long view. Concerns about the strength or weakness of markets for lobsters or oil or even real estate get a little more manageable when we remember that all of these things go up and down over time – most commodities have their peaks
Chebeague Island Inn re-opens, provides jobs to islanders
The Chebeague Island Inn was set to re-open June 1 after being closed since the 2006 season. Andre LeMaistre, of Freeport, has leased the inn from owner Martha Dumont with an option to buy. Dumont, who did extensive renovations to the 83-year-old inn, put it up for sale for $2.75 million in early 2007. The
Cranberry Isles forge ahead on the energy front
“There’s a good vibe out here,” reports Island Institute Fellow Amanda Ravenhill from her home on Islesford. A longtime seasonal resident, Ravenhill recently spent her first winter on Islesford, filling a fellow position that was vacated last spring when Eric Dyer took a full-time position with the Town of Cranberry Isles. Ravenhill is particularly interested
The Incredible Shrinking Shrimping Fishery of the South
Being somewhere warmer as winter waned seemed like a must-do this year. By March, we had cabin fever and wanderlust, so we thought we’d head down the Eastern seaboard. We eliminated Florida as a destination because we wanted to be in a region culturally more “Southern.” It could have been the coast of Georgia, but
www.workingwaterfront.com gets a facelift, becomes more timely
If you’ve visited the Working Waterfront website over the past month, you may have noticed a redesign. The change is the beginning of a new direction for Working Waterfront, which continues to circulate 40,000 printed papers per month. The commitment to produce an outstanding monthly newspaper remains. But with a redesigned website, there is now
North Haven, Vinalhaven students enjoy arts festival
North Haven’s normal fifth through twelfth grade school population of 39 students tripled when their counterparts from Vinalhaven joined them for the May 29 Fox Islands Arts Festival. Fencing on the ball field, choral music at the church, transformations (3-D art from trash) at the Legion Hall, granite-cutting behind Waterman’s Community Center were four of