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ARCafé Relocates, Expands Offerings

Just two short years after opening on Harbor Hill, Vinalhaven’s ARCafé has relocated to 50B Main Street. The new facility, officially named ARCafé Community Learning Center and Local Foods Market, opened quietly on Memorial Day weekend and will feature a larger menu as well as a local farmer’s market. Thirty-one adult and eight student volunteers

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Island boys on the West Coast

For those who don’t know the Toughcats, they are Colin Gulley, Jake Greenlaw and Joe Nelson, all with roots in the Fox Islands (also known as North Haven and Vinalhaven.) The Toughcats have been playing together for about seven years, and in that time have made quite a name for themselves, not only here in

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O’Hara expands bait business

Necessary renovations inside the building have been completed and the freezer is full in anticipation of the coming lobster season. Come spring, weather permitting, the O’Haras will do some paving and landscaping and pour concrete landing pads for trucks outside. O’Hara Corporation purchases frozen bait from all over the world, including frozen red fish racks,

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Linda Greenlaw arrives ashore

Linda Greenlaw, arguably Maine’s most famous fisherman, returned from the Grand Banks in early November. She and her crew were the guests of honor at a welcome reception at Portland’s Custom House Wharf on November 6. The reception included speeches, swordfish samples and autographs from the crew of the Hannah Boden. In front of hundreds

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Vinalhaven students harness the wind

Got wind? It’s a slogan you may have heard lately, or seen on a bumper sticker. For Vinalhaven School’s science classes, the answer is “yes.” Students in the 7th and 8th grades spent six weeks last fall studying wind power and building their own wind turbines, and the 11th and 12th grade physics class is

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