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Field Trip To Merryspring Nature Park
Islesboro Central School students in grades K-5 visited Merryspring Nature Park in Camden Oct. 13 for a day of cider making, nature photography, and a tree/shrub identification exploration.
Working Waterfront Losses
Between 2000 and 2004, according to a recent study by Coastal Enterprises, Inc., land values in a sample of 25 coastal and island communities increased by an average of 58 percent. The rise (in two of the towns surveyed it was over 100 percent) is caused by an apparently insatiable market for waterfront property, a
Wiscasset Faces the Future
Maine Yankee was a huge presence on the midcoast waterfront for many years. Now the nuclear plant is gone, leaving behind a lot of high-level waste but something positive as well: an opportunity for the town of Wiscasset to demonstrate how this kind of site can be redeveloped for other uses. In fact, there are
Monhegan Boat Line’s LAURA B. celbrates 50 years as connection to mainland
Monhegan Boat Line’s venerable wood vessel LAURA B, built in 1943 for the U.S. Army, is celebrating 50 years as Monhegan’s principal connection to the mainland. Before going to work for Monhegan Boat Line in the early 1950s she served as a World War II patrol boat and transporter, followed by several years transporting lobsters
The Tax Cap
In November Maine voters will come face to face with a ballot initiative that, if successful, will cap property taxes and reverse the recent dramatic increase in property valuations. The tax cap is an understandable reaction to a problem the legislature has been much too reluctant to face: escalating property valuations and taxes, pushed ever
At a special town meeting, Cranberry Isles voters change their minds
About 50 Cranberry Isles voters sacrificed a sunny day to attend a special town meeting on Aug. 9 in the Islesford Neighborhood House. With only 13 items on the warrant, the meeting was intended as a housekeeping event, reaffirming some votes from the annual town meeting while passing some necessary ordinances. However, some money that
Getting it Together
For everyone who helped raise money to purchase land at the Deer Isle “gateway,” who worked on Cliff Island’s barge landing project, who helped with the Islesford Fair, who helped settle the long-standing dispute over golf carts on Great Diamond Island, who worked on the large lobster-seeding project in New Brunswick’s Bay of Chaleur, who
Security?
Set government agencies a-sniffing after terrorist threats nobody can define, and the results seem predictable: delay, confusion, the wrong people caught up in the dragnet, the real threats ignored. This September marks the third anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. We’ve had ample opportunity to learn about the need
Deer Isle “gateway” protected from development
Island Heritage Trust, (IHT) the land trust for the island of Deer Isle, announced in mid-August that it had signed purchase and sale contracts securing two critical parcels that will provide a boat launch on Eggemoggin Reach, a swimming beach, walking trails, and a picnic area. These facilities will be open to the public. The
Island Institute Programs Staff
Island Institute Programs Department (from left): Ben Neal, Marine Programs Officer; Ruth Kermush-Allen, Education Outreach Officer; Rob Snyder, Programs Director; Chris Wolff, Fellows Program Officer; Cherie Galyean, Grants Writer; Dana Leath, Community Development Officer; Shey Veditz, GIS Specialist.