To the editor: I would like to thank you and the people who responded to my article in your paper [WWF Nov. 05]. A heartfelt thanks to Working Waterfront and it’s readers who have helped me in raising the tuition for the Ocean Classrooms Semester at Sea program. I would not have been able to reach
Wrong Crab
To the editor: …My oldest son, who is a commercial lobsterman, tells me that the photo on the front page of the February issue is not a green crab, but rather an Asian Brown Crab that came to Maine on the BIW dry dock. I agree that it sure doesn’t look like a green crab.
Insurance Feedback
To the editor: [re: “Islander’s Nightmare,” WWF Feb. 06] …I am writing this as an insurance agent for 32 yrs. here on Martha’s Vineyard. The Vineyard may be known by many as a place high profile types spend their summers in large sprawling estates…although this may in part be true, the Vineyard is also home to
Coastal Mainers Feel Oil Price Sting
The effects of record-high oil prices have reverberated throughout coastal Maine. This past year, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in Maine rose from $1.98 a gallon to $2.40, with a summertime spike to over $3. Heating oil similarly rose 53 cents per gallon, a thirty-five percent increase from the year before. Declining
Insurance Feedback
To the editor: Thank you for writing a very important article on homeowner’s insurance on islands [WWF Feb. 06]. It needed to be written and something needs to be done. You asked for feedback from islanders regarding their experiences. Here are mine. My husband and I purchased a home by the water on Cliff Island
Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm
New York: North Point Press, 2004 208 pages, $20.00 Grieving a Way of Life Loss. Transition. If they’re difficult experiences to write about, they’re also not easy reading. This book reflects on the author’s experience grieving a way of life once vital, now ended. Loved and lost. For Jane Brox, a writer living in Wiscasset,
East Boothbay yard builds Navy prototype
Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay, along with the help of Steve Von Vogt, president of Maine Marine Manufacturing in Portland, and researchers at the University of Maine, is building a Navy medium-range craft called the Mark V.1. While the Maine boatbuilding industry is a leader in the recreational boat market, it has not constructed small
Intelligent Wife
To the editor: Your excellent publication has been a benefit to me for many years. Since 9/3/94, however, I am that bane of the writers and publishers — a knowitall. Therefore, I am obliged, by the rules of my cult, to correct you. The largest corporation in the world is not headquartered in Arkansas but
The Wal-Mart Effect – How the Wold’s Most Powerful Company Really Works and How It’s Transforming the American Economy
Penguin Press, 2006, 304 pages, $25.95 Shopping Ourselves Out of Our Jobs At the recent Island Small Business Forum, I listened to an interesting discussion among three small island business owners about how difficult it is for them to compete against big chains on the mainland. One could argue that there is nothing different in
Phippsburg nixes moratorium, debates future growth
At a special Town Meeting Jan. 25, about 360 residents of Phippsburg voted down a proposed 180-day moratorium on housing subdivision approvals. Although they rejected this solution by an approximately 60/40 vote, townspeople are concerned about escalating growth in the town. Many people voted against the proposed moratorium because they felt it was unfair that