To the editor: Re:”Despite Questions, Pesticide Use Persists in Coastal Towns” [WWF Nov. 06] As a member of the Island Institute and a resident of the Town of Brunswick, I am writing to point out a series of major inaccuracies in the above mentioned article. On page 17, you state that the town of Brunswick
Young donor supports Institute’s work
Katherine Harwood wrote a letter at the end of December to the Island Institute. “I am 12 years old,” she began. “I have included $20 in cash. This donation is given to support your efforts to protect the islands of Maine.” Katherine and her younger sister choose two charities a year on a couple of
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Six applicants — the Town of Machiasport, the Sprucehead Fishermen’s Co-op, the Boothbay Region Land Trust, groups advocating for Holbrook’s Wharf on Cundy’s Harbor, the Town of Isle au Haut and Perio Point Shellfish on Beals Island — will benefit from Maine’s first Working Waterfront Protection grants. The grants are funded from $2 million in
Development’s Real Cost: Ellsworth’s effluent concerns towns downstream
Surry resident Phyllis Gibson worries about a wastewater treatment plant in a city where she doesn’t even live. Her home, situated on Union River Bay, sits downstream of an aging Ellsworth wastewater facility that can’t always handle the city’s inflow. A heavy rain can engage an illegal bypass in the system that will dump untreated
Is community wind a viable option for island energy?
Based on the input of islanders and Trustees, the Island Institute’s new strategic plan commits the organization, among other things, to begin developing information on two significantly inter-related issues will affect island communities in the future: the increasing cost of energy and the increasing risk of climate change. At a recent roundtable meeting of electric
Campobello volunteers start search and rescue operation
Campobello Island, New Brunswick, is on its way to having its own Search and Rescue (SAR) operation, according to Gary Masson, Regional Business Manager for the Maritimes Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary. Masson said he expects the service to be up and running “by spring for sure.” He added that the capsizing of a Campobello fishing
Hatchery releases 40,000 lobsters, studies their survival
Cold weather has arrived and the Zone C Lobster Hatchery in Stonington has closed up after its first season of operation. “It was a successful shakedown year on two fronts — we released almost 40,000 lobsters on sites fishermen identified and we learned a lot about what we are going to have to do to
Confronting Imposter Lobster
Since the early 1990s, Europeans have been protecting their traditional products from imposters. By law, any bottle of champagne sold within the European Union must come from the Champagne region of France; a Parma ham must be made from Parma’s cheese-rind-fed pigs; and only olives from the Greek town of Kalamata can be marketed as
Why not combine islands into one school district?
A year ago my neighbors and I were consumed by the process of trying to secede from the town of Cumberland, because our elected mainland representatives to MSAD 51 underestimated the integral role a school plays in the long-term sustainability of an island community. They did not understand that if the school is not strong