A crowd of about 100 island residents and summer visitors attended the Open House at Swan’s Island’s new health care facility on July 9. The Mill Pond Health Center, which opened its doors to patients last November, is off to a good start, providing a variety of health and wellness services to island residents and
Clean-up underway after devastating Northeast Harbor fire
Fuel prices affect everything, even salt
Everyone knows salt is basic to life, but probably not many people think about where it comes from and how it gets to the table, the road or the bait box. Ivan McPike does. In fact, while there are other salt dealers in the state, he’s the only processor of salt for bait in Maine.
Good-humored Frenchboro voters enact their whole budget
Moving through the fog from the barbeque on the church lawn to the municipal building, residents of the town of Frenchboro gathered for their annual town meeting on June 23. The meeting was called to order by the current Select Board at 4:05 p.m. and concluded by 6:00. The meeting opened with elections of town
Deer Isle Boys were skilled professional mariners
To the editor: I enjoyed the article “Technology, travel put Deer Isle students in touch with their ancestors,” (Working Waterfront, June 2008) on the Deer Isle students and their impressive research into all the Deer Isle crews that defended the America’s Cup in the 1890s. These kids deserve every bit of praise they get.
Ice cream (and groceries) return to Matinicus
Going for an ice cream on Matinicus Island is no longer just a bit of wishful thinking. On July 9 at 11 a.m. a line had already formed outside the door of the new Matinicus Island Store located, as it says on the signs, “at Aunt Belle’s.” Islanders who have been waiting for many months
Plover numbers plummet; 19 pairs remain
When it comes to their continued survival in Maine, piping plovers have two things going for them. First, they have cute offspring; their chicks are often described as balls of fluff with legs. Waterfront landowners like to keep the birds around. Second, they have a handful of dedicated wildlife officials working for their survival. Unfortunately,
Cranberry Report
The months of July and August are packed with opportunities for social and educational events on both Little and Great Cranberry Island. There are posters on the mail boat, posters at the town docks, and posters at the post offices advertising a feast of activities from which to choose. On Great Cranberry Island, the Cranberry
The Sloop from Bucks County, PA
Forty-five years ago Peter Sellers was a young mathematics professor with a dream. Specifically, he wanted to build a boat with the lines of a Friendship sloop. The project would combine two of Peter’s favorite activities. As a youth, he loved the small boat sailing he had done during summers spent on the New Jersey
Eastport Pilot: Lots of Planning, a Few Close Calls
At 11 a.m. on July 6, approximately a mile and half northeast of East Quoddy Head Light in the Bay of Fundy, Captain Robert Peacock stepped from the deck of the U.S.S. Hawes (FFG-53) onto the frigate’s pilot’s ladder. That step officially marked the end of Eastport’s Old Home Week/Fourth of July celebration – and