A new health center and an adjoining senior housing project are scheduled to open on Peaks Island by mid-May. The two projects are located at 85 Central Avenue. The Casco Bay Health Center is currently located in an older building, which office manager Jill Tiffany says has been difficult and costly to maintain. “It [the
The Long View – Small is Beautiful
Maine’s critics have been known to observe that we can be small-minded people. We don’t feel comfortable with big government or big organizations. Town meeting is where we get involved politically, not Augusta or Washington. Invariably when some businessman rides into town with a big idea that’s going to generate millions of new tax dollars
Information on Access
To the editor: Letters in your last two issues of Working Waterfront raised some questions regarding the laws governing coastal access in Maine. Your readers might be interested in a recently revised publication supported by Maine Sea Grant entitled “Public Shoreline Access in Maine — A Citizen’s Guide to Ocean and Coastal Law,” which can
“Earl on the River” – S. Orrington shipwright models 19th century vessels
He calls himself “Earl on the River” and when you hear his story, you’ll know why. Earl Morrill is a 58-year-old resident of South Orrington who specializes in building scale models of 19th-century Maine sailing vessels. I first met him in the summer of 2003 while I was doing research for an article on the
“A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and their Stories”
Good to Look At In the first three years at its Norumbega Hall location in downtown Bangor, the University of Maine Museum of Art has become one of the state’s premier venues for viewing photography. This reputation owes a great deal to museum director Wally Mason, an accomplished photographer himself who understands both the aesthetics
Maine groups and others launch tsunami relief efforts
Maine commercial fishermen’s groups, community members and supporters have initiated a drive to raise money to assist tsunami affected fishermen get back out on the water. Along with massive loss of life, the wall of water that came ashore on Dec. 26 destroyed thousands of vessels in Thailand, Burma, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Andaman
High-Tech Processing – At North Atlantic Inc., the war against bacteria never ends
When Jerry Knecht started his seafood processing business, North Atlantic Inc., on the Portland waterfront in 1986, the seafood business in New England hadn’t changed much in hundreds of years. North Atlantic then cut and sold local fresh groundfish like most other local processors, but Knecht decided to do business a little differently by focusing
Long Island students visit Bowdoin
The students of the Long Island School attended their first day of college on Feb. 7. The day consisted of a tour of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and lunch in the dining hall, and finished with a visit to Anne Henshaw’s “Anthropology of the Islands” class. The trip kicked off a semester-long collaborative project between
Islesboro student raises funds for trip
Cameron Leach, a freshman at Islesboro Central School, has been accepted into the People to People Student Ambassador program, which promotes understanding of other cultures while building leadership qualities among high school students. Leach is raising the money necessary to travel with 40 other Maine students to Europe. Cities they’ll visit during their 20-day tour
A Turkish import joins Maine’s boat scene
Sam Teel has a lot of energy. In addition to chairing the Marine Transportation department at Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) since 1992 he has been a visiting professor at the Turkish Maritime Academy and at a maritime component to one of the colleges within Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey; and he has started two