Articles
Giant Step
To the editor: The selectmen of Harpswell are negotiating a lease with Conoco Phillips and Trans Canada, to use the former fuel farm on Casco Bay to erect a facility and to store natural gas. This is a valuable fishing area, Zone F. A very large tanker will come in every four days to deposit
Wired
To the editor: Many of your readers must be getting a chuckle out of the utility pole photographs accompanying Nancy Griffin’s article on the electricity problems on Maine’s islands. The pictures show great views of the telephone cables on the poles, but the electric wires are hardly visible way above, running from the tops of
Missing Island
To the editor: I greatly enjoy WWF, but the “current” (pun intended) article by Nancy Griffin (Nov. 2003, page 1) reminds me of something I keep noticing: there is virtually no coverage of goings-on at Isle au Haut! Why? I know it’s remote, and the year-round population is tiny ( /- 42 last winter, I
Social Injustice
To the editor: … Amendment 13 to the Multi-species Fisheries Management Plan is a federal level proposal that is intended to end over-fishing and to rebuild several fish stocks to never before witnessed biomass levels. Sure sounds like well-intended outcomes, doesn’t it? But, the real question that remains unanswered is, at what cost? The four
The bridge not built
To the editor: I was interested to read your piece in the most recent Working Waterfront about island bridges (Long View, WWF Oct. 03). However, I want to correct your representation of the proposal to build a bridge to Chebeague Island. For several years I have been researching this effort, which is very well documented
Wooden lobsterman
To the editor: In your last issue (September) you had a picture of a display at the Maine Maritime Museum, and you referred to a “mannequin” representing a lobsterman. To the credit of N. Lipfert and the museum, instead of using a mannequin they commissioned a sculpture. The lobsterman is carved from a pine log:
Smooth surgeon
To the editor: I am a boatbuilder from Vinalhaven, and very recently had one of my knees replaced by Dr. Roger Wickenden at Pen Bay hospital. He was some smooth. Since then I have been in rehab at Windward Gardens in Camden. I am writing this as a way to thank the staff at Windward
Spurling for dessert
To the editor: The arrival of The Working Waterfront in the day’s mail is an event to make my day, even better than that first cup of coffee. I read it cover to cover but save The Cranberry Report by Captain Ted Spurling, Sr., as dessert. I thoroughly enjoy his journal, his observations, notes. He
Splendid attire
To the editor: I enjoy reading your excellent publication during the summer months which my wife and I spend in our summer home on Chebeague Island. The content of the newspaper is both informing, and entertaining and, even after some 34 summers on Chebeague I usually learn something new. However I was surprised and disappointed
The many contributions of Land Trusts
To the editor: Dave Barrett’s letter to the editor in the September 2003 issue of The Working Waterfront gives those of us in the land trust community an opportunity to talk about some of the many ways we “contribute to the people who maintain and inhabit this coast,” in Dave’s words, and join in the