With an afterword by Robert Creeley. Privately printed, 2002. $25. Softbound. 98 pp. When Daily Life was More Immediate In her later years Helen Power belonged to a writing group in Waldoboro and shared her prose with the seven women to whom this book is dedicated. They must have looked forward to each new installment
For Maine’s alewives, the possibilities are as large as the threats
As closely woven into the fabric of eastern Maine’s economy as it is to the region’s ecology, the steady decline of alewives, sometimes called river herring, prompts some fishermen and scientists to talk about the loss in both social and biological terms. “If you want dollar-a-pound codfish and haddock again, then you need to take
One fisherman to another: ospreys get a helping hand
In the 1980s, Dennis Smith used to fish for alewives on Mount Desert Island. Now, he’s helping his fellow feathered alewife hunters do the same. Smith and partner Karen Zimmerman build osprey nest platforms, but don’t picture them shimmying up a tall tree with twigs in their mouths. They construct the platforms on the ground
MDI Workforce Housing Project Goes Affordably Green
A planned Somesville village affordable housing project will incorporate green building techniques to make homes both affordable and environmentally friendly. Funded by the nonprofit Island Housing Trust, the proposed subdivision will sit on a 10-acre parcel of land donated to the trust by Mount Desert voters. Mount Desert town officials gave the plan final approval
Monhegan given green light for new affordable home
After a year of delays, this summer Monhegan fisherman Matt Webber will finally start building his new home on Lobster Cove Road. On April 4 the Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC), the state agency with authority over Maine’s plantations and unorganized territories, approved a new affordable housing policy that will allow Monhegan Island Sustainable Community
Green and Affordable
A “green” subdivision planned for Mount Desert deserves positive mention. Its architect, who won a statewide green housing design contest, says there’s nothing cutting-edge in his Mount Desert project; just fundamental good building practices and small design changes. But the little changes add up to a lot: solar orientation for the houses instead of lining
Small Wonder North Haven breaks ground for its new school
While the rest of Maine is in the midst of a wrenching political debate over consolidating school districts into larger, arguably more cost-efficient administrative units, the small year round community of North Haven is trying to build a new $7.5 million high school, middle school and elementary school all rolled into one. Perhaps no other
Balancing Act Help one business and you make another one mad
Harmon’s Tires in Ellsworth is the kind of business most Maine communities would like to keep. Locally and family-owned and operated for 61 years, it employs 18 and has become a fixture in the city’s commercial district. But city officials recently announced a proposal to move a traffic light providing direct-access to the tire center
Lack of ice diminishes seal hunt, but the debate goes on
Controversy about the Canadian harp seal hunt has raged since French movie star Brigitte Bardot hit the ice floes for the cameras in the 1970s to call attention to the bloody slaughter of white baby harp seals. Clubbing of the white-coated babies ended in 1987, but a seal hunt still takes place annually on the
This mess . . .
The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Abbie Burgess pulled this mess, which included nearly 50 traps, out of Penobscot Bay the week before the Patriot’s Day storm, about eight miles south of Owls Head.