The Long View: Sticker Shock

For hundreds of thousands of young Americans who will graduate from high school this spring, D-Day, as in decision day, is fast approaching. For many islanders also: the 25 or so high school seniors from Maine’s 15 island communities who have applied to attend college in the fall have collectively received some several hundred letters

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Sudden Sea – The Great Hurricane of 1938

When New England Looked Like New Orleans The death toll alone made the hurricane that struck New England without warning in 1938 a shocker: 682 people died and another 1,754 were seriously injured. “Maine was the only New England state without a fatality,” R.A. Scotti writes. “Eighty-eight died in Massachusetts, ninety in Connecticut, twelve in

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Mud Season

Regular readers of Vinalhaven’s weekly paper, The Wind, are avidly following the ad campaigns that broke out this winter between two competitor purveyors on the island. Island Spirits had enjoyed a niche all to itself, both in clever ad copy and in the sale of gourmet specialties. But Fishermen’s Friend has entered the fray, not

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Listening to an Island

Live oaks, Spanish moss, palmettos, armadillos, wild horses and feral pigs, grand ruins: Cumberland Island off the southern coast of Georgia has all of these things in abundance, as if to remind the visitor how different it is from the mainland or even other islands. It’s a mind-opening sort of place, a destination that seems

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North Haven school recognized for excellence

North Haven Community School has been recognized by the Maine Department of Education as a Consistently High Performing School for Grade 11 Reading and Grade 8 Reading and Math. To be considered a High Performing School for Reading, 70 percent of students must meet or exceed Maine Learning Results standards on the Maine Educational Assessment

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