Small Business Fourm Planned

On Wednesday, Feb. 8, the Island Institute will host an Island Small Business Forum at the Island institute office in Rockland. This event will bring island small business owners together with small business assistance professionals. Participants can learn how to access training and technical assistance services on-site. Speakers will present strategies for bringing more customers

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Clarion Books, 2004 Hardback, $15; paperback $6.50 224 pages Tragedy and Light Humiliation, shame and friendlessness mark Turner Buckminster III’s first day in the coastal Maine town of Phippsburg in 1911. And then life gets worse for this 13-year-old boy whose father has uprooted the family from Boston to become the First Congregational Church’s new

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Institute revises Island Lodging Program

The Island Institute has been obliged to cut back its popular Island Lodging Program because the sole funder is unable to continue support. However, the current level of support for medical emergencies will be extended through Dec. 31, 2006. Other requests for lodging support through this program, the Institute told island residents in a recent

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Nelson’s Trafalgar

Hardback, Viking Adult, 2005 392 pages, $27.95 The Battle of Trafalgar was fought two hundred years ago, on October 21, 1805, and has long been considered one of the pivotal naval battles in world history. This puts it in the select company of the Battle of Salamis (594 BC), the defeat of the Spanish Armada

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