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A new county?
A new county? To the editor: Thanks for the update on Portland’s waterfront presented in May 2002 issue. We on the Casco Bay islands have a better understanding that the $8 million being quoted is nothing but hot air. Perhaps some investigative reporting would reveal the true revenues of this cash cow? Portland is a
Less Polarization, Please
Less polarization, please To the editor, The controversy over shellfish aquaculture in the Bagaduce is just one battle in a larger war, but I would not go along with Sandy Dinsmore’s characterization (in her recent article “The Fight for the Bagaduce”) of the antagonists as being the wealthy waterfront property owners from away versus a
The Saddle Island Overture?
The Saddle Island Overture? To the editor: I much enjoyed Randy Purinton’s article describing the hexagonal basalt columns that appear on Saddle Island. He points out that another example of this geological formation, the Giant’s Causeway, is found on the Antrim coastline of Northern Ireland. Readers may be interested to know that a further, fascinating
Beating a dead deer?
Beating a dead deer? To the editor: Let me qualify this by saying this is only “my” opinion, and since a majority hand show vote (August 15, 2002) chose that “something” must be done about the deer situation, what I say changes nothing … yet I must speak. Habitat: we have been informed how deer
Time for solutions
Time for solutions To the editor: In its mission statement, the Island Institute stresses the importance of sustaining Maine’s islands. It seems to me that given the present tax structure of the state, together with escalating real estate valuation, it won’t be long before people whose families have lived on these islands for many generations
Cod and Lobsters, and more
To the editor: Having read the book “Lobsters Great and Small,” I would like to comment on several parts of it. The book states that cod, which is a predator of lobsters, largely disappeared from Penobscot Bay in the 40s, so the lobster boom that started in the late 80s couldn’t be explained by the
Thanks for Grand Manan Seamen’s Memorial Day Expanding Jackson Lab
To the editor: Thank you for choosing Canada Post to deliver Working Waterfront for the past several years. We will miss doing business with you. Hopefully some of our people will subscribe to your paper. Shirley McGuire, Postmaster North Head Grand Manan, New Brunswick,Canada Seamen’s Memorial Day To the editor: In 1985 the Maine State
What the law allows
To the Editor I would like to correct a statement in the article that Muriel Hendrix reported in the April 2002 edition of the paper. I probably stated to her that I fished 20 strings of four traps when I should have stated that I fish “20 traps set in groups of four.” I realize
In the Mail: Public Safety Committee responds
To the editor: This letter is in response to the letter printed in the February issue of Working Waterfront from Mr. Sean Hall of Orr’s Island. Mr. Hall references a survey he received in the mail concerning sidewalks and roadways. I am not quite sure what he was reading, but the survey he received simply
In the Mail: License Hiatus | Inaccuracies | Just tidying up the beach, officer | Open up your lines
Owing to an inadvertent but brief expiration of my poetic license, the line “And the same for the Steves – Kress and Spencer and White” should have been followed by “With their puffins, parks, paeans of sea-keeping delight” in a purported poem attributable to me on the back page of December’s Working Waterfront. Anyone waiting