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
Malaga, revisited: On a Casco Bay island, a shameful incident in Maine’s history comes to light
For those who have studied Malaga Island’s history and recently attended the first organized tour there in almost 100 years, it was impossible not to recall the ruthless events that unfolded after the last tour. Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) bought the island in December 2001 and sponsored the June 25 tour. The nonprofit land
Swan’s Islanders seek shopping alternatives after store fire
Swan’s Island residents lost their only general store after a fire ravaged both the store and the apartment above it on July 10. About 25 Swan’s Island firefighters responded but were unable to extinguish the fire before it destroyed the building. Firefighters from Southwest Harbor and Tremont also responded to the call. Selectman Dexter Lee
Codes to Art: Signal Flags inspire a Damariscotta artist
“I started using nautical signal flags as part of a bicentennial flag,” said Damariscotta artist Franciska Needham. “I wanted something to symbolize 1976, so I did the numerals 1976 in fabric signal flags embroidered in a satin stitch.” International Signal flags are codes for the alphabet and numbers. That bicentennial flag led Needham to make
Thinking Big
The trouble we’re having getting a bond issue on the ballot to support working waterfronts and farms should tell us it’s time to think differently about the future of Maine’s endangered coast. Not that the coast itself is going extinct — it’ll be there a century from now regardless of what we do or don’t
PUMPED! Islesboro’s muscle cars invigorate their owners
Peter Coombs is an Islesboro excavator who would prefer driving his 1968 Mustang Fastback on Sundays to hauling shale in his dump truck. The four-speed Fastback was originally from the South, brought north by a NAPA franchise owner in Wiscasset who was making a business of buying and selling Texas cars. Coombs’s Mustang is a
Painting Maine: The Borrowed Views of Connie Hayes
Borrowed View Press, Rockland, ME 2004 A Room of Her Own Connie Hayes paints scenes from the coast of Maine familiar to many of us; quilted-together backyards of fishing villages, working waterfronts with their spill of gear, weathered houses, islands positioned like sentinels in coves. A native of Maine, she has been painting here for
Wrong Town?
To the editor: I would like to make a comment about the article that appeared in the May 2005 issue written by Harry Gratwick about the submarines in the bay. He stated that the spies were landed at Winter Harbor. This statement is not correct. Gimpal and his partner were landed at Hancock Point and