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Traffic Lights come to Vinalhaven
There’s a first time for everything…and hopefully a last. Construction workers erected two temporary traffic lights on Main Street, Vinalhaven, to direct traffic during some road work on the bridge. Islanders have been photographing the lights to document Vinalhaven’s first stop light.
Corrections
In last month’s story on fish ladders in Somesville, Dennis Smith was misidentified as Dennis King. In our page 3 story about the coastal working waterfront mapping project (WWF April 07) we slipped a decimal point two places, leaving the impression there’s even less working waterfront left on the coast than the mappers found. Twenty
Hall of Flags Event
Reps. John McKane and Hannah Pingree, Monhegan Islander Doug Boynton and Roger Berle of the Maine Islands Coalition look on as Rep. Ted Koffman outlines an affordable housing bill at a State House event on Feb. 27. q (Liza Fleming-Ives photo)
Increasing Island Populations
It’s difficult finding a means of increasing the small population of Great Cranberry Island and until some combination of strategies is found for the human side, Farmer Richard Beal has decided to increase at least the animal population. Squash is a 800 pound boar from Gouldsboro. Squash has visited many farms this spring and is
Correction
An editing error in our page 1 story about composites (WWF March 06) resulted in a statement that Andre Cocquyt is an employee of Harbor Technologies, Inc. In fact, he is not an employee of the company, but does teach at the advanced composites training center as stated elsewhere in the story.
Compass Project receives $30,000
The Compass Project received funding of over $30,000 in the last quarter of 2006. “These grants strengthen our organization and allow us to continue offering experiential boatbuilding programs to youth facing social and academic challenges,” said Patricia Ryan, Executive Director of the Compass Project. “Every day in our boatbuilding shop we see that hands-on programs
“Local area” fisheries management advances
On Feb. 8 the New England Fisheries Management Council voted 12-4, with one abstention, to continue exploring the concept of local area management as an alternative to the current days at sea management system. The council also voted to continue work on a “points” system proposed by the Northeast Seafood Coalition. Over 30 fishermen were
High Tech, High Touch: Island Institute launches three-year strategic plan
The vision of the Island Institute is to be “a locally valued and broadly recognized partner finding solutions to challenges posed by local, state, national and international trends that threaten Maine’s island and working waterfront communities,” according to a new strategic plan for the organization. The Institute’s Board of Trustees approved a series of new
New scholarship offered for island students
A new scholarship fund has joined the Island Institute’s array of opportunities for island students who wish to pursue higher education. “We are excited to announce the new Otter Island Fund, made possible by an anonymous donor whose family members have graduated from the schools named in the new scholarship,” said Peter Ralston, executive vice
Hatchery releases 40,000 lobsters, studies their survival
Cold weather has arrived and the Zone C Lobster Hatchery in Stonington has closed up after its first season of operation. “It was a successful shakedown year on two fronts — we released almost 40,000 lobsters on sites fishermen identified and we learned a lot about what we are going to have to do to