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Artist braves island winters for different view of Islesboro
Islanders are accustomed to seeing brush-wielding artists standing before easels in picturesque locations: near a lighthouse, overlooking a harbor full of boats, or a fetching cove with mountains in the background. Seagulls, schooners, blue water, lupines, and puffy white clouds are standard fare of the summer art scene in Maine, naturally enough with fine weather
Ferry ramp work poses transportation challenge for Islesboro
Depending on whom you ask, the time between September 28 and November 2 is going to be misery for Islesboro islanders, or lots of ferry-less fun as the bridge structures and ramps are replaced at both the island and Lincolnville Beach terminals. The Margaret Chase Smith, which holds up to 30 cars, will have to
Neighbors pick on Islesboro crab proposal
“Lobster prices are horrible, and I wondered what I could do to keep fishing going. I talked to a bunch of people around town about the idea of a crab-picking operation and most thought it sounded like a good idea,” said Ilesboro resident Seth Wilbur. “Nobody had anything bad to say.” Current crab-picking regulations have
Journal of an Island Kitchen
We started with island apple wine and beer brewed in Lincolnville, sweetened rhubarb juice and currant shrub with appetizers of Bacon Bomb served on baked potato slices. (The Bacon Bomb recipe came straight out of the New York Times and is that outrageous item made of a mat of woven bacon slices overlaid with Italian
Three Penobscot Bay island towns weathering economic storm
How has the economic downturn affected the municipal budgets of three Penobscot Bay island communities? So far, not badly, say town managers in Vinalhaven, North Haven, and Islesboro. Housing starts, excise taxes, property tax payment, appeals for general assistance, and local business activity are all indicators of economic weakness, and so far, nothing dramatic has
Three island towns weather economic storm
How has the economic downturn affected the municipal budgets of three Penobscot Bay island communities? So far, not badly, say town managers in Vinalhaven, North Haven, and Islesboro. Housing starts, excise taxes, property tax payment, appeals for general assistance, and local business activity are all indicators of economic weakness, and so far, nothing dramatic has
Islesboro students add island history to Maine memory network
A few more than a dozen Islesboro high school students filled the third floor workroom of the Islesboro Historical Society supervised by their teacher David Thibodeau, I. H. S. Archivist Rowland Logan, and island coordinator for the Maine Community Heritage Project Melissa Olson. They turned on computers and donned white cotton gloves to begin photographing
Islesboro youngsters create food pantry
Christian Education director Sharon Dawbin, of Islesboro’s Second Baptist Church, said, “It was their idea.” Other years, the Sunday school students assembled food items to take to a mainland food pantry, but this year one 11-year-old came to Mrs. Dawbin and said she had heard her parents talking about how winter might be hard for
Journal of an Island Kitchen
Home and land security Even as lots of my fellow Americans, Mainers, and islanders felt an uptick in hopeful optimism back in early November, our wobbly economy reminded us that our stool might have only two legs and most people know that the world still contains hostile and dangerous people, including possibly some of our
Sewing group knits community together
Islesboro’s Baptist Sewing Circle has been “Keeping Islesboro in Stitches Since 1858”-at least that’s what the banner they carried in the Fourth of July parade trumpeted. The circle is undoubtedly one of the nation’s oldest continuously active sewing circles, according to President Suzanne Babbidge. To celebrate, they entered a quilt bedecked float in the parade