If it wasn’t for “Old Ducka” the clambake would have disappeared, never to be seen again. It was too much, having to deal with wind and rain and knocks on the fish house door. We were either going to get a reasonable facsimile of a restaurant, with a roof, or forget the whole idea. So
Opinion: Let’s protect people as well as trees!
Once again Mainers who live on the coast are under siege. We are victims of Maine’s property tax law, which requires town assessors to calculate our taxes based on the “highest and best use” of our homesteads. Unfortunately, this market driven philosophy assumes that we all want to sell out to the folks who can
Teenaged Stonington fisherman heads for Australia
In July, 14-year-old Stonington lobsterman Patrick Shepard will have to leave his pots with their Rocket Red and black buoys (a variant on the family colors) in the water for the three weeks he’ll be away as a student ambassador Down Under in the People to People program. While there, he’ll stay with an Australian
Dana Rice, Birch Harbor: A respect for the past, an eye toward the future
The things that produce leaders, that cause them to do the things they do, are not always obvious. In Dana Rice’s case, only those who’ve known him since he was a child would have any inkling of what drives him, and even then they might not realize that those formative factors were what most would
A watershed advocate in Guatemala respects local economic realities
A watershed advocate in Guatemala respects local economic realities Last month, Working Waterfront highlighted the Friends of Casco Bay’s efforts to protect and preserve Casco Bay. This story features the efforts of a similar organization — AMSCLAE — to protect and preserve Lake Atitlan, considered Guatemala’s most valuable natural resource. Environmental work in Guatemala, a
Chips fly as Vinalhaven students build their own shop
“When I first started I thought, `there’s no way we can do that,’ ” said Vinalhaven High School senior Caitlyn Warren of the timber frame shop her vocational technology class is building. The difference six weeks makes. In approximately that amount of time the VHS vocational technology class, which is building the timber frame for
Sardine history museum moves closer to reality
A new museum in Jonesport may soon open its doors. Ronnie Peabody and his wife Mary have been assembling and cataloging a large collection of sardine canning memorabilia. Peabody hopes to “preserve what is left of sardine history and preserve the memories that remain from a bygone time.” Herring (sardine) canneries were once a prolific
Lessons from the henhouse: In a world of diseases, penned salmon and confined poultry commonalities
In a story of worldwide significance, foot and mouth disease spreads through Britain, and thousands upon thousands of farm animals are slaughtered. Farmers lose fortunes, millions are spent on economic relief and mitigation, and pundits question the very underlying principles of industrialized, contained animal husbandry. This is a true story from 2001, but the headlines
Conspiracies? You bet.
Trying to unravel the Christmas/New Year’s lobster sales debacle was much like trying to find the way out of a maze. It was loaded with dead-ends, and those fishermen, buyers, and wholesalers, who would talk weren’t saying much. And who knows if they were telling it straight: As one fisherman/dealer put it, “lobster prices are
West Nile Virus, 2002
Dead birds may be the best indicators West Nile Virus (WNV) has arrived in Maine, and like deer ticks and Lyme Disease, health experts believe it is here to stay and will spread throughout the state. “It’s not going away,” said Duane Gubler, Director of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control,