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Emily Muir show
A small exhibition of oil paintings and watercolors by artist and architect Emily Muir opened at the Farnsworth Art Museum on April 21, and will continue through Aug. 13. The exhibition celebrates Muir’s long career (she turned 98 this year) and also includes some examples of work by her husband, sculptor William Muir (1902-1964) along
Baaaaaaaaa……
As sure as the black flies arrive every spring, the sheep get rounded up on Allen Island for their semi-annual checkup and shearing. On Saturday, June 8, the Island Institute will once again be organizing a group of hearty volunteer shepherds to go out to the island and spend a day corralling sheep and enjoying
Jean Brown Wetherbee
Jean Brown Wetherbee of Vinalhaven died March 25 at the age of 84. She was a long-time reporter and editor who worked for the Hartford Courant and the Newington (Conn.) Town Crier before moving to Vinalhaven, where she had spent summers, in 1984. On Vinalhaven she became editor of The Wind, and worked in that
Forces of Nature
Try as we might to forget or ignore them, natural forces will inevitably assert themselves, a reminder that we humans aren’t always as important as we think we are. A drought has lowered wells, reservoirs and water tables in much of the eastern United States, including islands. Fresh water supplies on islands being limited anyway
Along Shore
Alaska has had a high drowning rate for many years. As a response to Alaska’s tragic situation, the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) was formed in the mid 1980s. Now AMSEA is offering two workshops for educators in Maine, at the Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport on April 19-20, and in South
Islesboro Central School holds creative writing contest
Islesboro Central School held its ninth annual creative writing contest for grades 6-12 and had an assembly honoring its winners on March 1. This year’s theme was “Change.” Middle school winners were Nate Gorham, Sarah Bullock and Keelin O’Connell. The high school poetry winner was Elan Rolerson, and the high school prose winners were Natasha
Salmon aquaculture: savior or sinner? | Fish and feedlots | Waterfront access
For ten years between the mid 1980s and the mid 1990s, the emergence of salmon aquaculture in Maine was hailed by many sate leaders as a clean new industry. The industry would, the conventional wisdom was, finally turn the economic tide in towns with long histories of entrenched unemployment in Washington and Hancock County. Because
Sea Soup: Zooplankton
Sea Soup: Zooplankton features images by Yarmouth photographer Bill Curtsinger. The book was published by Tilbury House, Publishers, in conjunction with the Gulf of Maine Aquarium. Written for grades 3-7, Sea Soup: Zooplankton’s photographs and text explore the sea and the wide variety of drifting marine life. This book complements its companion title published previously,
Islanders publish their own phone book
The new directory was the brainchild of Peg Astarita, a resident of Peaks Island. “Everywhere I went,” says Astarita, “I heard islanders, especially the older folks I’d come into contact daily, saying that we needed an alternative to the big Portland book. What they wanted was something compact and easy to handle, but with a
Six islanders win McLane scholarships
Islesboro student Hannah Kerr is preparing for a voyage through the Ocean Classroom Foundation’s Semester at Sea Program. Her travels will take her to the Caribbean, aboard the Schooner SPIRIT OF MASSACHUSETTS, Captained by John Tohanczyn. Enrolled in a school decidedly more local are Frenchboro residents Linda Bernstein, Zachary Lunt and Robert Stuart who will