Cranberry Report:” What about that one empty trap?”

This was a spring of milestones for several island families. Josh Gray, from Great Cranberry Island, graduated from Colby College, Fritz Fernald graduated from Wheaton College, and Robin Fernald graduated from Goucher College. High school graduates were Marcus Fernald from the Baltimore Lutheran School, Meagan Blank from Freeport High School, Allan McCormick from Mattanawcook Academy,

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Lobsterman’s Balm

“Fiddling around with potions has always been sort of a hobby,” said Ghislaine Bérubé, who has invented a large lip balm-like tube of beeswax, various oils, and natural, organic botanicals she named Lobsterman’s Balm. She and her husband, James Hughes, both software developers by profession, moved from South Portland to Washington, D.C., in 1998, where

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Portland tackles its eastern waterfront

It takes a little imagination to conjure this picture of imminent change on Portland’s Eastern Waterfront: In the past month, in a somewhat sleepy, largely neglected stretch of town — east of the Old Port and west of Munjoy Hill — developers with visionary dreams have announced plans to pour millions of dollars, not to

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Closing military facilities

Military spending can do great things for communities. It brings jobs, stimulates the housing market and injects lots of cash into local economies. This year’s hand-wringing over threats to close facilities in Brunswick, Limestone and Kittery is evidence of the obvious: the departure of the military from those communities would be a wrenching experience for

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Island graduation

I feel luckier than ever to have been raised and schooled on an island. Eleven years ago I stood at a podium giving my high school graduation speech as one of five graduates from North Haven Community School. Like any typical island graduation, most of the community was gathered for the annual event, the entire

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Island Self-Governance

To the editor: I was just perusing the [National Public Radio] website with particular interest in the Chebeague Islanders’ desire for self-governance, something we on Roosevelt Island have been trying for since George Pataki became our governor, almost 12 years ago. We are [New York] City property leased for 99 years to the State…it has

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