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Through Mapping, Students Explore Their Island
On Dec. 1, Peaks Island Elementary School celebrated the end of a semester-long mapping unit with an evening exhibition of student work. Teachers Wendy Litchfield and Roberta Deane designed a creative mapping unit for their third, fourth, and fifth grade students last fall. The goal was to increase students’ knowledge of Peaks Island’s natural environment
Vinalhaven receives digitized maps
On Sept. 10, at the most recent Comprehensive Planning Committee meeting, the Vinalhaven Land Trust presented the Town of Vinalhaven with several maps assembled from a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) database. The full-color maps, commissioned by the Vinalhaven Land Trust and prepared by Gordon Longsworth with help from his students at the College of the