Fishery Products International of Newfoundland announced in mid-February that it was abandoning its plan to purchase Clearwater Fine Foods of Nova Scotia. This announcement came on the heels of FPI’s decision to hold off on an earlier announced layoff of 600 Newfoundland workers. Both the original FPI plan to buy Clearwater and the proposed layoffs
Property donated for Islesboro’s proposed Community Center
The recent donation of a barn and 13-acre parcel of land — contingent upon community support — has brought a proposed new community recreational facility for Islesboro much closer to reality. For more than two years, Islesboro’s Community Center Committee has been investigating the feasibility of — and gathering support for — a centrally-located facility
Second Thoughts
In the Mail: License Hiatus | Inaccuracies | Just tidying up the beach, officer | Open up your lines
Owing to an inadvertent but brief expiration of my poetic license, the line “And the same for the Steves – Kress and Spencer and White” should have been followed by “With their puffins, parks, paeans of sea-keeping delight” in a purported poem attributable to me on the back page of December’s Working Waterfront. Anyone waiting
Committee works on revised lobsterboat racing rules
Those present at the January hearing included some 45 racers, boatbuilders, interested others and two Coast Guard officers. Clive Farrin, of Boothbay Harbor, Chairman of the Oversight Committee, moderated the meeting well, according to those present, and with good humor. In fact, wry humor kept the debate from deteriorating into rancor, which might also have
Bargain-priced lobsters enrich Vinalhaven school project
It started with a conversation between Peter and Kelly Richards of Atlanta, Georgia, and a lobsterman friend on Vinalhaven. “We were talking on the phone, saying that this was the best time you could ever buy lobsters, because they’d be so cheap,” Kelly said. “But we didn’t think that anybody here would be that excited.”
“Destination ImagiNation”: Islesford students stretch minds for competition
Islesford students are eager to participate in this international creative problem solving experience. “I think it’s fun because we all get to put our ideas together and make really cool stuff”, says Heather Spurling, a fifth grader entering her third year of mind-stretching activities. She is one of six students on this year’s team; the
Island cargo is 35 percent of company’s air freight
Telford Aviation, which operates out of the Owls Head and several other Maine airports, has the contract with UPS for flying air parcels from the UPS terminal in Manchester, New Hampshire. Manchester is one of several UPS distribution centers in the northeastern United States. Lisa Haczynski, 31, flies the freight from Rockland to Manchester and
Year-round Campobello-Deer Island ferry proposed
Emphasizing that his proposal to the New Brunswick legislature was “in a very preliminary stage,” Allaby nonetheless was equally emphatic that there’s a need for such a service – a need fueled by the events of Sept. 11. As things stand now, Campobello residents must pass through two U.S. and Canadian Customs stations in order
Six islanders win McLane scholarships
Islesboro student Hannah Kerr is preparing for a voyage through the Ocean Classroom Foundation’s Semester at Sea Program. Her travels will take her to the Caribbean, aboard the Schooner SPIRIT OF MASSACHUSETTS, Captained by John Tohanczyn. Enrolled in a school decidedly more local are Frenchboro residents Linda Bernstein, Zachary Lunt and Robert Stuart who will