On March 5, 56 girls and 30 adults from four different coastal islands got together for an overnight at the Pen Bay YMCA. The original thought of getting just island girls together was generated during a Brownie Troop meeting. Islesboro’s Troop #593 has 13 girls ages 5-9, all interested in meeting girls from other islands.
Ocean racer kept log for Maine marine lab
Solo ocean sailor Bruce Schwab is not a Mainer, but he made some Maine connections before racing nonstop around the world earlier this year. Schwab collaborated with the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in West Boothbay Harbor, recording oceanographic information and maintaining an online journal as he sailed some of the world’s more remote seas.
Industry, Ingenuity and Courage
Maine’s thriving mail-order business in live lobsters is an example of ingenuity in the marketplace that business schools and others should be watching. Instead of leaving themselves at the mercy of wholesalers and other big customers, a hardy band of entrepreneurs has taken advantage of improvements in communications and shipping (the Internet, FedEx) to go
Franklin firm produces chips, other organic foods
Back in 1971, as their Downeast neighbors hung out laundry, Shep and Linette Erhart were hanging out seaweed to dry. Crazy? Not at all. It was the start of their Maine Coast Sea Vegetables business, now a fixture in quiet town of Franklin. The couple — she’s from Connecticut, he’s a college English major from
Quota plan angers Newfoundland crabbers
Newfoundland/Labrador crab fishermen are at loggerheads with provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Trevor Taylor over a raw material shares (RMS) system for the crab fishery that’s being tried on a two-year pilot basis. Saying that the outlook for the 2005 crab fishery is “weak,” Taylor said he was taking the step “to act in the
Great Eastern Mussel Farms prospers with rafts, ropes, quality
Great Eastern Mussel Farms is generally credited with putting mussels on North American restaurant menus. Great Eastern’s success made mussels ubiquitous and many countries now farm them, so the Tenants Harbor company is trying to outdo itself by raising the world’s best mussels. “We wanted to try to grow the highest quality mussel in the
Parrallel 44 – Who owns Maine’s media?
Just before last year’s presidential election, the Baltimore-based conglomerate that owns Portland’s CBS affiliate, Sinclair Broadcasting, announced that it would be airing an anti-Kerry documentary on WGME and most of the 61 other television stations it controls around the country. The announcement unleashed a storm of controversy in Portland, a Democratic bastion, where many viewers
State Funding and Small Community Schools – A school is a community’s heart
The story of Criehaven is the same as that of many Maine islands. In the 1940s, as funding dwindled, it became necessary to close the school. The children and mothers moved to the mainland to attend school while the fathers worked on the island. Eventually entire families made the move off-island to live near where
The Long View – Small is Beautiful
Maine’s critics have been known to observe that we can be small-minded people. We don’t feel comfortable with big government or big organizations. Town meeting is where we get involved politically, not Augusta or Washington. Invariably when some businessman rides into town with a big idea that’s going to generate millions of new tax dollars
Wrong Guy
To the editor: The pic. you have on the front page of your website is not Ted Christie. It is Jim Merryman, from Harpswell. Tom Allen Fishing Families for Harpswell [Several others, including the author of our story on trap limits, pointed out the same error, for which we apologize. –ed.]