In separate stories this month, we explore aspects of the Maine coast’s housing problem. For a look at the high end, consider the development just proposed for a peninsula on Islesboro. Philip Conkling notes that the first of the big, national real estate developers has arrived in Maine – on Islesboro, to be exact –
“Yes” on 5 and 7
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: voters on November 8 have two chances to support economic opportunity on the Maine coast. They can support the bond issue that would fund the Land for Maine’s Future program, including $2 million for working waterfront acquisitions, and they can vote for a constitutional amendment to
What will the coast of Maine be, in the future?
Change is inevitable, along our coastline, and everywhere. Buildings go up or fall down, people move in and move out, and our relationships with the land, sea, and each other are not the same from year to year. Community, citizenship, and the understanding of our connectedness to one another are essential to coping with these
First Lesson
My first “student” of the week aboard our Friendship sloop EASTWARD was George, a pleasant, enthusiastic young man who had been sailing on other people’s boats and was eager to learn. He paid attention to the direction of the wind and the luff of the mainsail and soon got the feel of the wheel. Sam
More on “Nor’easter”
To the editor: Why did Ed Myers dislike the term “nor’easter” so much? “Not sure,” says Working Waterfront (Oct. 05). Not sure, indeed! No doubt Ed concurred with Gerald Warner Brace who deplored the “lubberly misuse of the words ‘northeast’ and ‘southeast’; nothing gives an outsider, or a landsman, away quicker than those – specially
Irritated
To the editor: Well OK, I’m sitting around getting irritated again, reading what I think is your “softball” coverage of the Atlantic Canada fishing industry, so I thought I should pick up the pen and start grumbling. Bob Gustafson starts his article, “Report: Atlantic snow crab fishery is in trouble” in the September issue, with
Industry Idea
To the editor: I had a chance to read the article about four guys and a book on the back page of your most recent issue [WWF Oct. 05]. I have also had the opportunity to speak with Ted Ames on several occasions about his ongoing research into spawning grounds and the possibility of combining
Global Warming and Katrina
To the editor: …You are absolutely correct in stating that Katrina [WWF Oct. 05] was the most predictable tragedy ever to occur in American history. The other shoe – business and residential development along the San Andreas Fault – will likewise hit the deck (or the fan) one day also. While I am concerned with
Massachusetts to Maine by Public Transportation
To the editor: I enjoyed reading the opinions of Steve Cartwright [WWF Aug. 05] and Jack Boak [WWF Sept. 05] in both articles about public transportation. I, too, look forward to “convenient, consistent, coordinated, clean, reasonably priced public transit with user-friendly schedule info serving the midcoast area. I must say what is currently available is
World Wildlife Fund blames illegal fishing for Grand Banks depletion
Foreign overfishing on the Grand Banks off Canada’s east coast continues to deplete groundfish stocks while Newfoundland outport communities, reliant on marine resources, continue to shrink and die. The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, the international organization that governs stocks in the area, has been condemned by individuals, industry and most recently by a federally appointed