Librarians from the Penobscot Bay islands gathered at Islesboro Central School June 24-25 for the first of three summer work sessions to assist with cataloguing and other library “chores.” Following two spring meetings at the Island Institute in Rockland, librarians from some of the islands’ town and school libraries felt that one way to support
CRANBERRY REPORT
Small car, bloody red moon, runaway horse Wed., May 1 – Temp. 50, wind WNW 6 knots, sun and showers off and on in P.M. Today is the day when the kids on the island, in my youth, would begin hanging or placing May baskets on each others’ doorsteps or porches, and usually rigging up
Peaks Island prepares for neighborhood planning workshop
The Peaks Island neighborhood planning committee will hold a community planning workshop on Aug. 4 from 1 to 4 PM as a way to inform the community about the progress made by the committee and get input. The workshop offers an opportunity for the Peaks Island community to help plan its future. Peaks Islanders have
New Music CD from Vinalhaven
Among the many accomplished musicians living on Vinalhaven, Norm Reidy and Joe Nelson are two of the quieter ones. Neither one seems to feel the need to talk when they don’t have anything to say, and when they’re playing with a group in public both tend to pretty much stay in the background and support
The fight for the Bagaduce
The story’s familiar: a lifelong resident gets a state permit – over the objections of some neighbors – to raise oysters in a coastal river. Two years later, another local man applies for a second permit to do much the same thing. Again, neighboring property owners object, concerned about property values, state rules they don’t
Weather forecasts
Weather prediction has come a long way since the days when your uncle’s corns foretold a cold spell. Today, fishermen looking for the optimal weather window for steaming out to Georges Bank, weekend boaters looking for the select weekend to go cruising, or blue water ocean racers who want to win have more resources and
Community institution
At 4:30 a.m. on a muggy morning in June, Doug Scott swats at mosquitoes as he unlocks the building at Sea Horse Lobster in West Point, Phippsburg. The day doesn’t begin quite this early during the winter, but now, with the lobster season picking up, fishermen depend on Scott and his helper to be there
Art cache turns up in Brooksville barn
Finding a pile of paintings hidden in a barn and never before exhibited would make any art dealer’s heart skip a beat. It certainly did for Michael Connors, of Stonington’s EaGull Gallery. A woman came into his shop last year, he said, and told him she had a neighbor who was thinking of selling some
Old Home Week
When Eastport harbor pilot Captain Bob Peacock stepped onto the deck of the USS GONZALEZ (DDG 66) from the destroyer’s pilot’s ladder on July 3 in the Bay of Fundy, his step represented the culmination of a lot of work by Peacock and a lot of other people. And the work was continuing as Peacock
Make your own Saddle Island
Saddle Island, located about halfway between Camden and North Haven, is perched atop a foundation of formerly molten basalt that, as it cooled, fractured in a distinctive geometric pattern. The stones that line the shore are actually the tops of multi-sided basalt columns or shafts that probably descend deep below the floor of the bay.