The following bills with implications for the preservation of Maine’s working waterfronts are under consideration by the Maine Legislature: * Working Waterfront Access Bond: Reps. Leila Percy and John Piotti co-sponsored L.D. 299, a bond that would provide $15 million to working waterfront communities and $15 million to farming communities to invest in their future
Buyer Beware
The Fish List (www.thefishlist.org) is a website provided by Environmental Defense, Blue Ocean and the Monterrey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. The website claims to offer consumers “a fast, easy-to-use tool that helps you make the best possible seafood choices.” Each participating organization has its own online version of consumer seafood information. Since shoppers don’t
Information on Access
To the editor: Letters in your last two issues of Working Waterfront raised some questions regarding the laws governing coastal access in Maine. Your readers might be interested in a recently revised publication supported by Maine Sea Grant entitled “Public Shoreline Access in Maine — A Citizen’s Guide to Ocean and Coastal Law,” which can
New health center, senior facility to open on Peaks
A new health center and an adjoining senior housing project are scheduled to open on Peaks Island by mid-May. The two projects are located at 85 Central Avenue. The Casco Bay Health Center is currently located in an older building, which office manager Jill Tiffany says has been difficult and costly to maintain. “It [the
Institute fellow launches newsletter to facilitate islanders’ communication
Fishers Island differs from the typical Maine Island in very obvious and particular ways. For one thing, this is a New York State island, yet we are located off the coast of Connecticut. We have never been anything more than a hamlet of the town to which we belong, Southold, situated on the north fork
Islesboro plans April 30 reservists’ benefit
That tantalizing aroma wafting over the bay from Islesboro on April 30 will be the island’s firemen cooking up their famous barbecued chicken as part of a fundraising event hosted by spouses of Army Reservists from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York serving in Iraq as part of the 2/304th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 98th
Chebeague keeps fourth and fifth graders – for now
Chebeague Island residents now have a new appreciation for the tenuous situation of small island schools. The community learned in February that MSAD 51, of which the island school is part, had proposed to move the Chebeague Island fourth and fifth graders to the mainland North Yarmouth Memorial School. Particularly frustrating for islanders was that
Cranberry Report – “A Hole in My Mattress”
There were a number of storms in the last two weeks of February, but our snow plow operators, Corey Alley and Blair Colby, did a fine job of keeping roads clear on both Islesford and Great Cranberry. For most kids, the dramatic music of a “Storm Center” weather report means that school has been canceled.
Artist introduces sculptural storytelling to Islesboro students
University of Maine at Augusta artist and faculty member Susan Bickford held a weeklong artist-in-residence program at Islesboro Central School in early March. She spent four days working with students in grades K-12 combining wire sculpture with storytelling to create a dynamic video presentation, which the whole school community was able to view at the
Deer Island ferry service is “erratic”
The only way that Deer Islanders who don’t own their own boats can travel to mainland New Brunswick and the rest of Canada is by ferry. Islanders are not at present stranded, but for some time now the provincial ferry service has been, at best, erratic. “People are getting pretty disgusted,” says Capt. Stan Lord,