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Lobster coops offer price, market connection
VINALHAVEN — At the end a typical summer day, an 18-wheeler will roll onto the mainland-bound ferry loaded with 300-400 crates of live lobster packed in seaweed. The lobster—40,000 pounds of it, provided by the island’s lobster coop—is then trucked to a dealer who will sort and distribute the product to restaurants, processors and others.
Feds to sell Boon Island, Halfway Rock
BOSTON, Mass. — Two Maine islands with lighthouses will be sold by online bid in late May or early June. The General Services Administration (GSA) has taken possession of Boon Island and Halfway Rock from the U.S. Coast Guard and expects to start bidding at $5,000. “When the Coast Guard deems them no longer necessary,
Building resumes on Great Diamond ‘destination’ hotel
PORTLAND — The work was so close to being done it made the disaster that struck even more tragic. The redevelopment of the last historic structure on Great Diamond Island, part of the circa-1900 Fort McKinley, seemed doomed after a fire ripped through the structure on the night of Nov. 23. “We were about three
Former ‘This Old House’ host has advice for next generation of homeowners
“This Old House” is the mother of all home improvement TV shows. Though in recent years entire networks such as HGTV and DIY are devoted to home design, decorating, renovation, construction and real estate, “This Old House,” debuting on Boston’s public TV station in 1979, was the first. In 1989, original host Bob Vila was
Working the land keeps Dan Tutor grounded on Islesboro
ISLESBORO — Busy summers with lots of hard work, quiet winters that offer time for recreation and reflection—it’s the rhythm of island life and it suits Dan Tutor just fine. Tutor, 29, is a sixth-generation Islesboro resident on his mother’s side. He isn’t stuck on the island by chance or circumstance, he explains over a
Vinalhaven carpenter leaves his mark
VINALHAVEN — Just like many of his neighbors, Charlie Reidy sees evidence of his work when he takes a boat ride around the island. But it’s not lobster buoys he’s seeing. “I built that addition there,” he’ll think to himself, “I did that dormer. I redid the roof on that house…” It gives Reidy, 47,
Winter moths devastate hardwood trees on coast, islands
VINALHAVEN — Town Manager Marjorie Stratton left the office and was on her way home one evening in November 2012 when she saw a flurry of white around a streetlight. “Oh, it’s snowing,” she remembers thinking, but a moment later, she realized it wasn’t a flurry but a swarm. Male winter moths are known to
Boat-builders banking on pent-up demand; Chis Christie gets his salt
Sabre Yachts will build its new Sabre 66 power yacht at Rockland’s North End Composites. North End, which is the company behind Back Cove Yachts, has ramped up production and hired 40 workers over the last six months, chief operating officer Jason Constantine said. Sabre, based in Raymond, is a company related to North End/Back
A love affair with a coastal town brings out its best
BELFAST — A Waldo County weekly newspaper columnist once described Mike Hurley as a cross between the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and boxing promoter Don King. That’s about right. Hurley’s got the hippie resumé—attended the Woodstock festival, part of the back-to-the-land movement—and the flamboyant impresario skills that today are called guerrila marketing. He’s run several
Catamaran fishing boats ready for trials
ROCKPORT — When catamaran boats first came on the scene in the early 1960s, they must have looked as strange as recumbent bicycles did a decade ago. But now, few people look twice at the vessels that have become commonly used as high-speed ferries, sailboats and even whale-watching boats. So if the design, in which