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Looking to the stars on North Haven

In a K-12 school with fewer than 70 students, it’s easier to respond to individual needs and requests. When some of our students at North Haven Community School indicated that they’d like to have an astronomer come to school, a little research on astronomer-plus-outreach brought up Southern Maine Astronomers, from Portland. What a find! A

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North Haven’s entire high school class takes part in drama festival

Although the islands appear quiet this time of year—summer houses drained and closed up, fields frozen, seasonal businesses closed—for North Haven Community School students, winter is the busy season. Between basketball, major research projects, yearbook preparation and homework, the school’s 17 high school students sometimes feel stretched pretty thin. Adding another commitment on top of

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Fencing at the Fox Island Arts Festival

North Haven’s normal fifth through twelfth grade school population of 39 students tripled when their counterparts from Vinalhaven joined them for the Fox Islands Arts Festival May 29. Fencing on the ball field, choral music at the church, transformations (3-D art from trash) at the Legion Hall and granite-cutting behind Waterman’s Community Center were four

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North Haven, Vinalhaven students enjoy arts festival

North Haven’s normal fifth through twelfth grade school population of 39 students tripled when their counterparts from Vinalhaven joined them for the May 29 Fox Islands Arts Festival. Fencing on the ball field, choral music at the church, transformations (3-D art from trash) at the Legion Hall, granite-cutting behind Waterman’s Community Center were four of

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Nebo Lodge warms up the locals

North Haven residents had a rare on-island opportunity in the middle of January. Body pampering, having someone to attend to your muscle twinges and twangs, someone to bring the glow back to your winter cheeks and help to unclench the frozen jaw, someone to speak softly while soothing music played in the fuzzy background —

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Monks, Native Americans visit North Haven

For the most part, human diversity exists on Maine islands in color only, and that thanks to individuals or couples who have adopted children of other cultures. It was therefore a mind-expanding time on North Haven when Arnold Neptune, a Penobscot Indian elder, presented workshops on the history and culture of the Penobscot Nation, and

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The Lobster Chronicles

New York: Hyperion Books, 2002 $22.95 Island life, viewed from within This is not a definitive book about lobstering, nor is it a contrived description of idyllic island life. It is a book in which island residents and small-town residents will see themselves and their communities: the frustrations, the benefits, the characters, the challenges, the

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