Playing croquet with someone older than your parents isn’t likely to make your average 25-year-old’s short list of “What To Do On A Summer Evening On The Maine Coast.” Then again, Annie Tselikis, the Island Institute’s Deer Isle-Stonington Economic Development and Technology Fellow, is no average 25-year-old. She’s packed a lifetime of experiences into a
Fantastic
To the editor: Your article on biodiesel (WWF July 2007) was fantastic. No question, the world needs a better, safer energy power and biodiesel, may be the answer. At least for now… Jeffrey Bayer Windham
Sustainable?
To the editor: Sustainable, green and earth-friendly have certainly become the prominent buzzwords of the day. Advertisers use these words and others like them to make consumers feel better about their purchases and they rather quickly have lost their meaningful definitions. Simply because a product contains less petroleum is often the qualifier for sustainability by
Remember the Roe
To the editor: Re: Political Correctness, etc., by Sally Noble, July 2007 Within that article, the writer was quoting Cheryl Lewis, chef at Black Point Inn who “thinks highly of the lobster’s tomalley (its liver, which turns green upon cooking).” [The comment] is a bit misleading to the average reader, much less the consumer of
Neither For nor Against
To the editor: When I set out to write my LNG: A Level Headed Look at the Liquefied Natural Gas Controversy, which you reviewed in your July issue, I honestly didn’t know how I felt about the subject. My natural green tendency was counteracted by what I’d heard from my tugboat friends about the safety
Big Ships, Small River
To the editor: I was fascinated by your article on the Paul Palmer in the July ’07 issue. I wonder how they ever got a vessel of that size from Waldoboro to Muscongus Bay. I have sailed up the Medomak River almost to Waldoboro with a northwest breeze and I was more than a little
Foundation offers fishermen a rope buyback
In a one-day event in Scarborough this past month, 125 lobstermen traded in 140,000 pounds of ground-line rope for vouchers toward the purchase of a rope less likely to entangle endangered whales. The rope exchange was the first of its kind in the state. Federal regulations due out in October ensure it won’t be the
In Franklin, small is beautiful
Fifty-seven hundred square feet — the size of a recently-built house in Utah for a family of four, as reported in The Bangor Daily News. MDI architect John Gordon thinks such a home might be a tad big. “Just insane,” Gordon said. Gordon could be said to work at the opposite end of the spectrum
Eastport celebrates Old Home Week
Eastport’s 2007 Old Home Week ended officially at eight bells on July 6 as harbor pilot Captain Bob Peacock climbed down the pilot’s ladder of the USS McFaul (DDG 74) onto the Eastport pilot boat in the Bay of Fundy. The destroyer, which arrived on July 1, was the 23rd naval vessel to serve as
Phippsburg plans Popham Colony’s 400th anniversary
“I’m glad this happens only once every hundred years,” says Bill Perkins, co-chair with Bill Murray of a 12-member volunteer committee that is making sure the Popham Colony’s 400th anniversary receives suitable recognition. The group has planned four days of festivities Aug. 23-26 to celebrate the colony, which through the efforts of Maine’s First Ship,