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LURC allows island dredging
The Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) has approved a plan to dredge a portion of the small harbor at privately owned Lassell Island in Penobscot Bay off Camden. The project is designed to improve access to the island. Working with a consultant, the island’s owner offered to remove and re-plant eelgrass in the vicinity of
Island election results
Chellie Pingree, whose political career began on North Haven, received the most votes in 10 out of Maine’s 15 island voting districts. Pingree lost her statewide race for the U.S. Senate to Susan Collins, of course, but Collins prevailed on only five islands – Swan’s, Long, Frenchboro, Great Diamond and Great Cranberry (one of two
Coastal residents share tax, housing, access problems at “Affordable Coast” meeting
Islanders and others from the length of the Maine coast attended an Oct. 25-26 conference on “The Affordable Coast,” held at the Island Institute in Rockland. The two-day meeting focused on rising property taxes, the lack of affordable housing on islands, and shrinking access to the working waterfront. The meeting was organized by the Institute
Cruising Guide to the New England Coast Including Hudson River, L.I. Sound and New Brunswick Coast
By Robert C. Duncan, Roger S. Duncan, Paul W. Fenn and Wallace Fenn New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company 810 pp., $49.95 Over the years the Duncans, Wares, Blanchards and Fenns have accomplished what a single author couldn’t in his allotted time – several generations of these families have kept the Cruising Guide to
Power of images; community to the rescue; DOT vs. DMR; How the news works
The power of pictures In an image-driven age, the work of a documentary photographer can seem particularly powerful. David Wade’s photographs of Widgery Wharf in Portland, exhibited in June and reproduced here this month, tell the all-important story of the city’s working waterfront. Wade’s story centers on Maine’s largest port, but it resonates up and
To Save a River
Camden, Maine, and New York: Coastal Mountains Land Trust and Aperture, 2002 Hardcover, $50.00 This is a spectacular book. Large in format, eloquent in artwork and design, high in price, quietly well-spoken in its text, “To Save A River” is, in effect, a lesson plan for protecting a significant natural area. The river in question
A new book brings a whole fishery to life
For five years this book was a gleam in the eyes of the people who participated in the Penobscot Bay Collaborative. Because it was a “deliverable” of that federally funded, multi-year effort, everyone knew it would one day make its appearance, at the end of the project’s fifth and final year. Boxes of Lobsters Great
Swan’s, the musical island
“Music teacher wanted for island off the coast of Maine,” said the job listing, adding just enough additional detail to prompt Dunham and her husband, Ben, to respond, arrange an interview, accept the job, pack their lives and their two children into a couple of old cars, leave central Ohio and head out for something
Boston forum explores science, advocacy and society
Pure science? To a traditional scientist the exercise might not seem so, because it relied on informants of varying reliability and because its methods were really those of anthropology, not biology. The project crossed the line between science and advocacy, and to call it “science” in the usual sense stretches the definition of the term.