On March 8 the townspeople of North Haven gathered at the community building in order to participate in their annual town meeting. With 81 articles to vote on, and coffee and muffins provided as a fundraiser for North Haven Community School’s class of 2009, folks seemed eager to get things rolling as 9:00 a.m. approached
SELF conference to engage local food producers, others
Notes from 04635: It takes local knowledge to mail a letter in the no-cash economy
haven’t gotten off the island in a few weeks which, while you can certainly lose perspective on the world ashore, is not all that bad considering how beautiful it is now that the days are becoming longer and less miserable. And since there’s no real formal economy out on Frenchboro, that means no cash machines.
Befriending a Friendship
An old Friendship native has come home. Eagle, built by Wilbur Morse of Friendship in 1915, is now undergoing repairs at Spruce Head. And the latest owner, Dick Rapalyea of Thomaston, is finding out that an old boat, like his 18th century house, requires a lot of time and energy, not to mention money. Rapalyea
From the Deck: Caught Down
aving an anchor, a trap, or a drag caught down can be anything from an annoyance to a challenge to a joke to a tragedy. Sometimes a mere twitch on the line from another direction will do it, and the trap comes dripping to the rail loaded with lobsters. We should be so lucky! I
Brooksville
“Everybody seems to have such a good time,” said retired plumber Frank Snow, of the weekly luncheons put on by Brooksville’s Meals For Me. Each Thursday, Snow brings his sister, Nettie Leach, of Penobscot to Brooksville’s Town House. They’ve been attending the lunches ever since the program began four years ago. People come from Brooklin,
New device helps haul moorings
arbormaster Steve Pixley has been hauling mooring chain in Camden harbor for the past seven years, one short section at a time, to see if it needs replacing. There’s got to be a better system, he remembers thinking. “I was tired of hauling chain the old way.” So he invented The Harbor Master Tool, a
For 20 years, a good Blue Hill pantry has fed the needy
“People don’t have ovens or microwaves or even hotplates. Sometimes they live in a car. One asked me for food with flip tops because she didn’t have a spoon,” said Rusty Roberts, eight-year president of Blue Hill’s Tree of Life and manager of its food pantry. “Some live in chaos.” The Tree of Life has
For fishermen, Midcoast Marine is a snug fit
In Waldoboro, Midcoast Marine operates in a former auto parts store near Moody’s Diner, and store manager Jeremy Young knows most customers by name. He jokes with them, allows them buy on credit and sometimes he delivers their purchases if it’s not too far out of his way. “I take stuff up to the house.
Can fishing and oil drilling coexist on Georges Bank?
At least one Nova Scotia fisherman is willing to consider the future possibility of a fishery and oil drilling rigs coexisting on Georges Bank. The joint U.S.-Canadian moratorium on drilling was established in 1988. The ban was extended eight years ago and will expire in 2012. Hubert Saulnier, president of Local 9 of the Maritime