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

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Lights! Camera! Action!

Ellie Reidy gets interviewed by Forrest Murray during an open casting call for the independent film “Sternman” being filmed on Vinalhaven this month. The film was written by Vinalhaven summer resident Thomas Hildreth, directed by Ian McCrudden and co-produced by Hildreth, Murray and Melissa Davis.

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Change the Policy

To the editor: To anyone affected by clam flat closures; we have to somehow convince the Dept. of Marine Resources (DMR) that closing flats because of rainfall/pollution run-off is bogus in most areas. It puts the clam diggers out of work and affects anybody they do business with (i.e. the Maine economy). Any bells going

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LNG Returns

The surprise, divided vote by the Passamaquoddy Tribal Council in mid-May in favor of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on tribal land near Eastport is a development with deep implications for Maine’s coast and working waterfronts. Anyone who recalls the Pittston Company’s hard-fought battle to build an oil refinery 20 years ago in the

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Author’s Thanks

To the editor: I just wanted to thank Linda Beyus for the kind review of my book, Off Season. She nailed the feelings and the premises I hoped to get across. It was a wonderful journey for me, and I’m glad some readers enjoyed it too. Thanks. Ken McAlpine Ventura, California

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Crab fishermen vote to end strike

The Newfoundland/Labrador crab fishermen’s strike is over and as of May 20, boats were heading out to sea. In their vote, however, the fishermen made it clear that they will not accept the production quota system laid down by provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Trevor Taylor. Approximately 4,600 fishermen voted 73.6 percent to go fishing

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Looks Like a Portsmouth Sub

To the editor: The photo [accompanying “Submarines in the Bay” (WWF May 05)] certainly looks like a Portsmouth design Guppy. It may be a Guppy 1A or 1B which, if memory serves me right, had a somewhat pointed bow. The sub in the photo looks like it may have that shape, but it is not

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