The story of Wolf Marine Systems, Inc., the first company to build and install large industrial refrigerated holding systems used in the seafood industry, is the old one of hard-working immigrants who, despite setbacks, reach eventual success. In 1922, Rena Belzer, jobless in post-World War I Germany, applied to emigrate to the U.S. In 1925,
Venturing: Good neighbors, high water
An article in the Times-Picayune reminds us yet again of change on a waterfront. While I was in New Orleans in early November, the newspaper reported that the New Orleans City Council had approved a zoning change to allow the creation of a new park along the Mississippi River, in a downtown district that has
Rediscovering the art of fish cutting
The Midcoast Fishermen’s Cooperative (MFC) began offering fresh-filleted fish to restaurants and their Port Clyde Fresh Catch Community Supported Fishery customers in June, and it is still available sporadically through the winter. Last year, only whole fish were offered, accompanied by filleting demonstrations at pick up locations. Customers have responded enthusiastically to the fillets, made
Cranberry Report: Parallel Christmases
At the beginning of December, there is still room for eager anticipation of the winter holidays. There is time to finish that knitting project, shop for gifts, and get excited by glossy new recipes in cooking magazines. We can think back on what we so liked about this time of year when we were children.
How To Read a Nautical Chart: A Captain’s Quick Guide
Skipjack: The Story of America’s Last Sailing Oystermen
St. Martin’s Press 2009 Hardcover, 372 pages, $25.99 A saga of the last working boats under sail It would be fair to say that Skipjack is as powerful as The Perfect Storm without the tragedy. Yet, the tragedy here is the decline of historic sailing dredge boats called skipjacks, which are barely still in use,
Crawlspace
Bantam Books, 2010 Hardcover, 288 pages, $25 U.S., $29.95 Canada Sarah Graves’s new claustrophobic thriller If Crawlspace, the title of Sarah Graves’s newest murder mystery evokes claustrophobia in readers, the perils-gravel pit, ancient tunnel, car trunk-that the novel’s main characters find themselves in will definitely reinforce it. Chief among these characters, of course, is Eastport’s
New Town Landing completed on Isle au Haut
A new Isle au Haut Town Landing that includes major design improvements required by the island community has just been completed Prock Marine Company built the new wharf in two and a half months. It was a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) project funded by several sources and representing a cooperative effort. The Isle au
Delsandro enjoys new job as school leader
Vinalhaven School welcomed a new school leader in September, and though she is new to the office, Gloria Delsandro has been a teacher at the school for seven years. “I have gotten lots of support from so many different people moving into this job,” she said. “People have been so welcoming and supportive.” Delsandro received
Vinalhaven lobstermen grapple with MRSA outbreak
In the last four months, nearly two-dozen Vinalhaven residents were sickened during the state’s first fishermen-centered outbreak of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A coordinated effort by community members and health care officials and seems to have contained the outbreak. Several Vinalhaven residents required intravenous-administered antibiotics and minor surgery to deal with the deep lesions that