Web site helps island businesses prosper

With only the purest of civic-minded intentions, Bev Johnson first started her Chebeague Island website back in 1996. “I just wanted to keep islanders informed about the comings and going of people in our community,” says Johnson. Need to know more about the Polar Plunge and the Chili/Chowder/Soup Challenge? Looking for swimming lessons in the

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Great American Shrimp

If you live in Maine and think of shrimp as those sweet little Pandalus borealis sold from trucks by the side of the road during winter, think again. Even though the fishery served for generations as a winter mainstay for many state harvesters, Maine’s little shrimp are scarcely a blip on the radar of U.S. shrimp consumption.

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Different Species

To the editor: [In her] herring article [WWF Feb. 06] Jennifer Litteral wrote: “Herring are anadromous, meaning they spend most of their lives in salt water, but return to freshwater streams to spawn.” Atlantic herring are not anadromous; they do not spawn in freshwater. Atlantic herring lay egg mats on gravel substrate in ocean waters.

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Heartfelt Thanks

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

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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.

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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

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