To the editor: Thanks for the mention of my Masters Championships race. Actually, my time was “well under the 44:00 standard” for 10,000 meters, rather than “400.” Herb Parsons North Haven
Island sheep evicted, may return
When White’s Island, an idyllic retreat in the heart of Wiscasset, came up for sale, Bill Phinney, who lives up the street, snapped it up. He wanted to ensure that the island, long a refuge for Wiscasset residents and visitors, would remain wild and free. Phinney even placed some lawn chairs around the area to
Vinalhaven receives digitized maps
On Sept. 10, at the most recent Comprehensive Planning Committee meeting, the Vinalhaven Land Trust presented the Town of Vinalhaven with several maps assembled from a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) database. The full-color maps, commissioned by the Vinalhaven Land Trust and prepared by Gordon Longsworth with help from his students at the College of the
Island librarians assist each other
Penobscot Bay island libraries were busy this summer. Librarians from the public and school libraries on North Haven, Vinalhaven and Islesboro visited each of the others’ libraries to assist one another with a variety of chores. The need for the workshops arose during one of the PenBay Librarians’ conferences held at the Island Institute in
Islesboro to Rockland, the long way
Ending their summer with a bang, a group of island teenagers boarded the schooner SPIRIT OF MASSACHUSETTS on Aug. 14, departing from Islesboro’s Grindle Point for a nine-day trip that would circumnavigate Cape Cod. Students adapted quickly, hardening up to life at sea with a nonstop passage through the night to Gloucester, Massachusetts. The educational
MBNA college scholarship applications available
The MBNA Foundation is accepting applications for the 2003-2004 MBNA Maine College Scholarship Program. The program is open to all Maine high school seniors who plan to enroll as full-time freshmen at four-year accredited colleges or universities within the United States. Students are required to live with their parents or guardians as legal residents in
Maritime lobster prices: high to customers, low to fishermen
Lobster prices for fishermen in two Canadian Maritime provinces are low while retail prices are high, and in New Brunswick lobstermen want to know why. But on Prince Edward Island they think they’ve figured it out. Rory McLellan, general manager of the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association, is charging price fixing by the processors, and
Bigelow
Edited by Bruce B. Collette and Grace Klein-MacPhee Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press This bible of fish identification was first issued in 1925, written to a large degree by William W. Welsh, and finished by the young fisheries biologist Henry Bigelow after Welsh’s untimely death. Bigelow made his life’s work the investigation of the marine
The Great Eastern Mussel Cookbook
Forest Dale, Vermont: Paul Eriksson Publishing $15.00 As one of Maine’s most ubiquitous and abundant seafood products, mussels have long been somewhat maligned, dismissed as a “poor man’s food,” and considered by many to be gritty, hard to clean, and limited in culinary scope to steaming with a little wine and garlic. This book, combined
Stiff competition for the Moxie Trophy
Juy 4, Thursday – temp. 70 and wind SE 15 knots at noon. “To have a safe fourth, don’t buy a fifth on the third!” I have heard some say. The fourth of July annual picnic was held at our town field near noontime. Good weather and a good gathering. There was a dedication of