“The Boat School will stay in Eastport,” declared Dean Pike, the last remaining faculty member, after a July 15 meeting in Machias that included Maine Gov. John Baldacci and Bill Cassidy, president of Washington County Community College. Last spring, citing a funding shortfall, Cassidy had announced plans to move the Boat School to the WCCC
Journal of an Island Kitchen: Livestock
About three thousand pounds of pork is busily rooting through the rocky soil of our island, if you figure on 20 pigs dressing out at about 150 pounds each, plus or minus. Two of those pigs are in our backyard, turning up the patch of ground where we plan to set out raspberries next year.
The Long View – The Mystery of the Greenland Vikings
Cape Farewell, South Greenland — It is the fifth day of a voyage to southern Greenland, aboard Gary Comer’s 150-foot exploration vessel, TURMOIL. Ever since we arrived, we have been under the influence of a benign high-pressure dome of air with daily temperatures soaring into the mid 70s in cloudless blue marble skies. The barometer
Ocean Gateway: State selects a contractor, developers spar over rail rights
This September, after years of hand wringing and money wrangling, Maine’s Department of Transportation plans to begin building Ocean Gateway on Portland’s Eastern Waterfront. In July the Portland City Council approved borrowing an additional $1.6 million, bringing the city’s contribution to $4.1 million towards the $20 million project. In late June, a contractor was finally
New Museum Opens
The Islesboro Historical Society’s new museum building, built in 1894, has been a town office and meeting hall, and then a high school through 1954. In 1971 a society member requested the Town sell the building to the Society. One dollar sealed the deal, and the land and building were transferred to IHS. On June
Land Trust plans historic boat festival
The Boothbay Region Land Trust will host the 2005 Boat Builders Festival on Sunday, August 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, free for children under 12. Working Waterfront columnist Roger Duncan, an East Boothbay resident, described last year’s version of this show this way, in part: “The 2004 First
Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
Faithful By Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King 403 pages, Scribner $26.00 Two for Fenway Following a season of euphoria in Red Sox Nation, it seems appropriate to examine Ted Williams, a biography by Leigh Montville and Faithful, by Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King. Many consider Williams to be the greatest of all Boston baseball players,
Frenchboro plans August 13 lobster dinner
Frenchboro will host its 43rd Annual Lobster Dinner on Saturday, Aug. 13. The menu includes Maine lobster, chicken salad, hot dogs, cole slaw, homemade pie, potato chips and soda. Dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will take place rain or shine. Proceeds benefit the 116-year-old Outer Long Island Congregational Church.
Windfall: The Navy left Winter Harbor a village’s worth of valuable real estate but few kids to fill the local school
“It’s always been a fishing village, that hasn’t changed,” said Bruce MacKay, 85, referring to how the 2002 closure of Naval Security Group Activity/Winter Harbor, the secret, low-key Navy base tucked away in Acadia National Park on the Schoodic peninsula, has affected the town of Winter Harbor. And MacKay should know: he was a freshman
Fund offers affordable housing grants
The Islands Challenge Fund, a collaborative effort of the Genesis Community Loan Fund, the Island Institute, Maine Community Foundation, the Maine Seacoast Mission and several island residents, will make challenge and matching grants from $5,000 to $25,000 for affordable housing and community facility projects. Chebeague island resident Pommy Hatfield, member of its advisory committee, commented