All of us who struggle with family budgets wrestle with difficult borrowing decisions. We are, after all, a nation of debtors. Most of us know it’s a vicious cycle to rely on a strategy of balancing our family budgets by borrowing to pay short-term bills and credit card statements. And most of us also recognize
Guns to Butter; Park Service program promotes science and learning, assists towns hurt by base closings
The Park Service formed Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, an independent 501(c)(3). The board of directors hired Dennis O’Brien as its executive director to work with the National Park Service to manage the facility, called Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC). The center is one of 13 such centers funded by Congress. O’Brien said,
Lobsterman’s Balm
“Fiddling around with potions has always been sort of a hobby,” said Ghislaine Bérubé, who has invented a large lip balm-like tube of beeswax, various oils, and natural, organic botanicals she named Lobsterman’s Balm. She and her husband, James Hughes, both software developers by profession, moved from South Portland to Washington, D.C., in 1998, where
Titus Tidewater
A survivor’s story survives the test of time Titus Tidewater, written and illustrated by Suzy Verrier, who owns North Creek Farm in Phippsburg with Kai Jacob, has been re-published by Maine’s Islandport Press. Verrier, now 63, wrote the children’s book when she was 27, living in an apartment on New York City’s upper West Side
“The island’s survival is at stake”; Chebeague ponders seceding from Cumberland
Within a week, Chebeague residents organized a Casco Bay-wide effort, and successfully convinced the council to cancel the vote. But the fact that Cumberland officials would vote to put an LNG terminal on a town wide ballot left many islanders in shock. “I thought, wow, do we always have to be on guard?” said Johnson,
On location “Sternman” comes to Vinalhaven”
A film portraying the lobster industry, territory wars, and the struggle for personal redemption in an insular community is providing acting debuts and economic infusion this spring on Vinalhaven. The film, Sternman, written and designed by two men who have spent their summers on the island since childhood, was scripted specifically for present-day Vinalhaven. During
The Voyage of ARCHANGELL James Rosier’s Account of the Waymouth Voyage of 1605, A True Relation
The Lost Voyage of John Cabot by Henry Garfield Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, $16.95 The Age of Exploration seems much in the news this year. In mid-June a symposium in Rockport marked the 500th anniversary of George Waymouth’s landings at Monhegan and the Georges Islands, as well as his exploration of (take your pick, depending on
In aftermath of scandal, NOAA gets a new research vessel
As a result of Trawlgate, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), parent agency to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), sought appropriations for increased spending on fisheries science. “There’s more money going to stock assessment data and Congress has funded four new research vessels,” said Dr. Steven Murawski, newly appointed senior science advisor and
Cranberry Report:” What about that one empty trap?”
This was a spring of milestones for several island families. Josh Gray, from Great Cranberry Island, graduated from Colby College, Fritz Fernald graduated from Wheaton College, and Robin Fernald graduated from Goucher College. High school graduates were Marcus Fernald from the Baltimore Lutheran School, Meagan Blank from Freeport High School, Allan McCormick from Mattanawcook Academy,
Working the Sea: Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine Lobsterman
North Atlantic Books 2005 Don’t be fooled. This is not some quaint memoir of a lobsterman telling tales. It shatters any stereotypes. The first portion of the book sputters like a stubborn motor, but when it gets going, hang on — it’s hard to put down. Wendell Seavey’s stories run the gamut from his pre-Vietnam