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Essay: Notes from a young innkeeper
During my one season as an innkeeper of the Chebeague Orchard Inn Bed and Breakfast, I never quite got used to the whole waking up at 6 a.m. thing. I ran out of eggs more than I would like to admit, sending my partner J Holt to raid his parents’ henhouse, “the girls” squawking and
Growth spurt for day care on Chebeague Island
When it comes to kids, a lot of growth can happen in one year, sometimes unpredictably. When The Kids’ Place Day Care on Chebeague Island opened on August 4, 2008, the founders had no idea how quickly their brainchild would outgrow its own footprint. Having reached maximum capacity 21 separate times since the beginning of
Peaks Island group seeks tower to test wind power
A crisp October wind rustled the yellow tinged trees of Trott-Littlejohn Park in the heart of Peaks Island in Casco Bay. A flurry of leaves drifted down onto a grassy meadow where the Peaks Wind Group, a subgroup of Peaks Environmental Action Team (PEAT), and many island residents hope a wind anemometer will be spinning
Sculptor inspired by islanders and the sea
The rusted prow of the Chebeague stone sloop Alletta L. Hamilton has sailed straight out of the history books and onto the clapboards of the Chebeague Island Historical Society this spring. The sloop cuts through the shimmering waves, burnished reds and blues gleaming from the depths of the stainless steel and has stayed it course
Something to write home about
Last June, William Robinson, currently a fifth grader at the Chebeague Island School in Casco Bay, could be found near the bowsprit of the schooner Timberwind, gazing off at the horizon opposite Rockport. Or you would find him sitting next to the captain at the helm or taking the huge wheel himself and guiding the
Essay
I forgot to buy eggs. And bread. And milk. Our very first guests were sleeping upstairs, and I wandered around the kitchen wondering how I would fix this dilemma. After a month of painting and cleaning and moving furniture and placing the vases of lilac branches just so in guest rooms anticipating our first customers,
Rowing their own boat
Four years ago, in the spring of 2005, SAD 51 proposed elimination of the fourth and fifth grades at Chebeague Island’s K-5 school- a proposal that would set in a motion a small but powerful revolution in Casco Bay. At the front lines stood Mabel Doughty, then 82. “It’s time to row our own boat!”