Residents of Peaks Island are preparing for an emergency. They don’t know what the problem will be, or when it will happen, but they want to be ready, and they’re forming a Community Emergency Response Team or CERT. The CERT concept originated with the Los Angeles Fire Department, which wanted to enhance citizens’ abilities to
Ingrid Bengis Seafood – An innovator improvises her way to success
It started with chanterelles, those frilly yellow mushrooms with pleated throats like the jabots women used to wear. By 1984, Ingrid Bengis, a finalist for the 1972 National Book Award for her searingly honest memoir, Combat in The Erogenous Zone: Writings on Love, Hate, and Sex (Alfred A. Knopf), had gone through the money earned
Vinalhaven’s enrichment program has come a long way from the “art cart”
Ten years ago, a group of parents and teachers began meeting in the library of Vinalhaven School to figure out how to bring a desperately needed art program to their students. Meeting monthly, those volunteers had a fledgling program by the end of the first year. Today the art program has blossomed into a vital
Village for Sale – Changes threaten West Point’s traditional characte
In 1970, an article about West Point, a small village in Phippsburg, described it as impervious to change. “The fact remains,” it said, “that ever since old William Wallace came up from Ipswich, Mass., in 1795 and named the area Wallace’s Point, and the Gilliams came over from Ragged Island, there hasn’t been much but
Long Island students visit Bowdoin
The students of the Long Island School attended their first day of college on Feb. 7. The day consisted of a tour of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and lunch in the dining hall, and finished with a visit to Anne Henshaw’s “Anthropology of the Islands” class. The trip kicked off a semester-long collaborative project between
“A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and their Stories”
Good to Look At In the first three years at its Norumbega Hall location in downtown Bangor, the University of Maine Museum of Art has become one of the state’s premier venues for viewing photography. This reputation owes a great deal to museum director Wally Mason, an accomplished photographer himself who understands both the aesthetics
Changing the Chemistry of a Fish
Stephen D. Kelleher, PhD. did the basic research that led to his trademarked NutraPure system during 15 years as a scientist working on fats and proteins at the Gloucester lab of the University of Massachusetts. NutraPure is the process of extracting proteins from seafood flesh — for instance, from trimmings and minced fish — then
Maine Islands Coalition promotes tax reform
The Maine Islands Coalition met for the fifth time on Feb. 4 in Rockland. Residents of Cliff, Long Island, Great Diamond, Peaks, Vinalhaven, North Haven, Islesboro, Monhegan, Matinicus, Swan’s Island and the Cranberry Isles attended, along with Rep. Hannah Pingree (D-North Haven). The meeting focused on the tax bill passed recently by the legislature. Rep.
From the Deck – Jackpot or Dead Loss
In 1793, when the new United States had barely got its sea legs, France declared war on England. Both countries were so busy fighting each other by land and by sea that they had not the men or resources to produce the food and supplies they needed. Neutral United States could supply both combatants and
The Long View – Make your voice heard!
The first time someone from Maine visits a harbor in the Canadian Maritimes, there’s always the same epiphany — “Whoa! Take a look at those fishermen’s wharves!” Of course, the Canadian system of government investment and decision-making is vastly different than ours. But still, you cannot help but notice Canada’s large, expensive, well-maintained public wharves