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ARCafé Relocates, Expands Offerings
Just two short years after opening on Harbor Hill, Vinalhaven’s ARCafé has relocated to 50B Main Street. The new facility, officially named ARCafé Community Learning Center and Local Foods Market, opened quietly on Memorial Day weekend and will feature a larger menu as well as a local farmer’s market. Thirty-one adult and eight student volunteers
Island boys on the West Coast
For those who don’t know the Toughcats, they are Colin Gulley, Jake Greenlaw and Joe Nelson, all with roots in the Fox Islands (also known as North Haven and Vinalhaven.) The Toughcats have been playing together for about seven years, and in that time have made quite a name for themselves, not only here in
O’Hara expands bait business
Necessary renovations inside the building have been completed and the freezer is full in anticipation of the coming lobster season. Come spring, weather permitting, the O’Haras will do some paving and landscaping and pour concrete landing pads for trucks outside. O’Hara Corporation purchases frozen bait from all over the world, including frozen red fish racks,
Vinalhaven senior spends spring break in Ghana
Martin spent February 19 through March 5 volunteering at an orphanage in Ghana. On her fifth day at Bethel Daycare orphanage in Akropong-Akuapem, Martin noticed a girl whose shoe was broken. “Her shoes kept falling off,” said Martin, “so after school I went and bought her a new pair of shoes.” The shoes cost Martin
Construction begins on affordable townhomes on Vinalhaven
Community Housing of Maine (CHOM), a non-profit housing developer, bought the building located at 53 High Street from Fred Small in late November 2010. At that time the building was a shell, finished on the outside, empty on the inside. According to Erin Cooperrider, Development Director of CHOM, the sale closed the day before Thanksgiving,
Vinalhaven Historical Society gets its own John Hancock
Last October the Vinalhaven Historical Society received one of its most historically significant artifacts to date. Island natives Jack and Angie Olson donated an original document signed by John Hancock in 1785. The document appoints William Vinall as Justice of the Peace of the Fox Islands back when what is now Maine was still a
Linda Greenlaw arrives ashore
Linda Greenlaw, arguably Maine’s most famous fisherman, returned from the Grand Banks in early November. She and her crew were the guests of honor at a welcome reception at Portland’s Custom House Wharf on November 6. The reception included speeches, swordfish samples and autographs from the crew of the Hannah Boden. In front of hundreds
Four generations of Harbor Gawkers on Vinalhaven
When John and Barbara Morton opened the Harbor Gawker restaurant on Vinalhaven in 1975, it was a small take-out window occupying the former Bodwell Granite Company’s pay station. These days the restaurant occupies a much larger building with plenty of seating, and the menu is bigger than one might imagine possible on a small island.
Linda Greenlaw writes about return to swordfishing in new book
After five years, during which she wrote two mysteries, Isle au Haut’s Linda Greenlaw is back with a new nonfiction book. Seaworthy, due out June 1, chronicles Greenlaw’s return to swordfishing after a 10-year absence. The 2008 fishing trip described in the book turns out to be fraught with bad luck, poor fishing and a
Vinalhaven students harness the wind
Got wind? It’s a slogan you may have heard lately, or seen on a bumper sticker. For Vinalhaven School’s science classes, the answer is “yes.” Students in the 7th and 8th grades spent six weeks last fall studying wind power and building their own wind turbines, and the 11th and 12th grade physics class is