I am ready for the big time. Sales of Away Happens (www.upne.com) are brisk, among the top ten this month at University Press of New England, and I am readying myself for fame, notoriety and wealth. I presented this rosy forecast to my wife, to whom the appeal of elevated notoriety is (I keep forgetting)
VP Finance and Administration
The Island Institute, a nonprofit organization located in Rockland, ME, has an immediate opening for a talented and experienced VP of Finance & Administration to oversee all aspects of the Institute’s finance, Human Resources, retail sales, MIS & technology, and building operations functions. These include but are not limited to supervising the day-to-day activities of the
Swan’s Island: Homeland Security rules dampen fireworks plans
The annual Swan’s Island Town Meeting took place on March 7 with 150 to 200 residents in attendance. Matters to be voted on included the election of officials, budget appropriations, a new Land Use Ordinance, and a possible action to affirm public rights to the Irish Point pathway. Terry A. Staples presided as moderator. Dexter
Cranberry Report – “A Hole in My Mattress”
There were a number of storms in the last two weeks of February, but our snow plow operators, Corey Alley and Blair Colby, did a fine job of keeping roads clear on both Islesford and Great Cranberry. For most kids, the dramatic music of a “Storm Center” weather report means that school has been canceled.
Government and Island Tradition
Maine people, with their strong tradition of local government, make many decisions at annual town meetings. On islands at least, the town meeting season begins in March and extends into June. This month we report on the March crop of island town meetings. The Legislature, meanwhile, is deep into its winter-spring deliberations, some of which
Chebeague keeps fourth and fifth graders – for now
Chebeague Island residents now have a new appreciation for the tenuous situation of small island schools. The community learned in February that MSAD 51, of which the island school is part, had proposed to move the Chebeague Island fourth and fifth graders to the mainland North Yarmouth Memorial School. Particularly frustrating for islanders was that
Look at Yourselves!
To the editor: I’d like to get my two cents in on this lobster debate. How pitiful you pick on the recreational lobster fisherman, with his five-trap limit fishing out of a 14-15 foot boat… They pay an awful high price for those five traps, equaled out you couldn’t afford to fish the amount of
Islesboro plans April 30 reservists’ benefit
That tantalizing aroma wafting over the bay from Islesboro on April 30 will be the island’s firemen cooking up their famous barbecued chicken as part of a fundraising event hosted by spouses of Army Reservists from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York serving in Iraq as part of the 2/304th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 98th
Perspective
To the editor: In the March 2005 issue of Working Waterfront, you published an article entitled “Trap Limits, Ten Years Later.” On page 24 of that issue, under the unfortunate and derisive heading of “Weekend Warriors”, Clive Farrin, Zone E Vice-Chair, expressed concern about the buildup of the “recreational” (non-commercial) lobster effort. He reports that
Institute fellow launches newsletter to facilitate islanders’ communication
Fishers Island differs from the typical Maine Island in very obvious and particular ways. For one thing, this is a New York State island, yet we are located off the coast of Connecticut. We have never been anything more than a hamlet of the town to which we belong, Southold, situated on the north fork