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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

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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

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