To the editor: I am a member of a group called “Fairplay for Harpswell.” We are in the midst of fighting a multi-billion-dollar energy company who proposes to build an LNG/natural gas port here. I want to commend you on your article “The Long View: Open Letter to Governor Baldacci” (WWF Dec-Jan 2003-04.) I think
Tight Fit
To the editor: Re: Sally Noble’s article in the December 2003/January 2004 issue of Working Waterfront/Island News – I would certainly hope that the landing strip on Matinicus is 1,700 feet long and not 1,700 -square-feet as stated in the article. A helicopter could land on that area but I question what kind of pilot
From the Deck: A Remote Outpost with a Fiery History
Seal Island lies about eight miles southwest of Isle au Haut, nine miles south of Vinalhaven and six miles east of Matinicus in the mouth of Penobscot Bay. As we approached from Vinalhaven on a calm, cloudy day in early September, we saw it first as a dark crayon mark on the southern horizon with
Something Wrong Here?
Last fall there was a brutal killing of an animal over here, and I’m going to tell you about it because it needs to be told. The animal was our family cat, which was murdered, trapped in a mink trap and shot 15 times, then thrown out on our road for us to find. The
At Island Libraries, Business is Brisk
Maine island libraries loom distinctly large on lists of the state’s top ten in per-capita services to their patrons. A recently-released report on state library statistics for 2002 shows a disproportionate number of island libraries represented in categories of service such as “per capita circulation,” “per capita collection” and “per capita visits.” Are islanders more
New Library for Swan’s Nears Completion
After ten years of hard work, the Swan’s Island Public Library is almost ready to call its building renovation complete. In 1991, the village of Atlantic’s schoolhouse was left to the Swan’s Island Educational Society (SIES) for a new library. The years since have taken the building from a shell to a beautiful, functional space.
College of the Atlantic Honors Wiggins
Journalist Russ Wiggins, who died in the fall of 2000 at 96, is the inspiration for an endowed academic chair at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor. The college is seeking $1.5 million for the James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity. After retiring from the Washington Post, Wiggins edited and published the weekly
Students Share Groundwater Research Results with Vinalhaven Community
Communities around the world, as well as small island communities, share one universal need and growing concern – the health and future availability of their water resources. With burgeoning population growth, land development, changing weather patterns and increased possibilities of contamination in one form or another, communities are waking up to the fact that their
Thon Artwork to Grace Island Schools
Bill Thon of Port Clyde, an artist and sailor known for his paintings and drawings of boats and the sea, has left a bequest of his work to island and other Maine schools. Thon, who died in December 2000 at 94, left some $5 million to the Portland Museum of Art, along with a good
Newfoundland Flume Tank is World’s Largest
At 13 feet deep by 26 feet wide by 72 feet long, the flume tank at Memorial University’s Marine Institute in St. John’s, Newfoundland, is the largest in the world, circulating some 450,000 gallons of water at up to six feet per second through a complex system of propellers, pumps, and pipes to mimic flowing