In 1970, an article about West Point, a small village in Phippsburg, described it as impervious to change. “The fact remains,” it said, “that ever since old William Wallace came up from Ipswich, Mass., in 1795 and named the area Wallace’s Point, and the Gilliams came over from Ragged Island, there hasn’t been much but
Trap Limits, Ten Years Later – Big-gang lobstermen are gone, but we’ve got more traps than ever
Standing on his float overlooking Barters Island, Ted Christie pounds at the ice that has accumulated from the last storm. As he swings a heavy maul, large football-sized chunks break off and float away, drifting down the waters of the Sheepscot River. Tied up beside him and covered in six inches of new snow is
Vinalhaven’s enrichment program has come a long way from the “art cart”
Ten years ago, a group of parents and teachers began meeting in the library of Vinalhaven School to figure out how to bring a desperately needed art program to their students. Meeting monthly, those volunteers had a fledgling program by the end of the first year. Today the art program has blossomed into a vital
Nova Scotia haddock look strong; cod still need help
Milton d’Eon has been fishing out of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, for “between 15 and 20 years,” and he says he’s never seen anything like it. “Fifteen, 20 years ago it used to be all cod and no haddock,” d’Eon says. “Now it’s got turned all around, less and less cod and more and more
Ingrid Bengis Seafood – An innovator improvises her way to success
It started with chanterelles, those frilly yellow mushrooms with pleated throats like the jabots women used to wear. By 1984, Ingrid Bengis, a finalist for the 1972 National Book Award for her searingly honest memoir, Combat in The Erogenous Zone: Writings on Love, Hate, and Sex (Alfred A. Knopf), had gone through the money earned
Words, Recycled – Vinalhaven’s second hand bookstore does a booming business
Second Hand Prose (SHP) is a non-profit, all-volunteer-run bookstore that has grown out of the annual secondhand book sale held for many years in the vestry of Vinalhaven’s Union Church. June MacDonald and Ginny Fitts have been instrumental in organizing and running the store, though they would be the first to emphasize that the success
Peaks Islanders train for emergencies under a new program
Residents of Peaks Island are preparing for an emergency. They don’t know what the problem will be, or when it will happen, but they want to be ready, and they’re forming a Community Emergency Response Team or CERT. The CERT concept originated with the Los Angeles Fire Department, which wanted to enhance citizens’ abilities to
Public Access and the Law
To the editor: I came across the letter you published on adverse possession [WWF Feb. 05], and decided to tell my own story. Last summer my son and I wanted to go striper fishing on the Kennebec River. I checked my gazetteer and found a public road leading to an old ferry terminal, to be a
Coast Guard: scalloper lost at sea was over-rigged
A Maine fishing boat that sank with all hands 50 miles southeast of Nantucket was top-heavy, the Coast Guard said in its final report on the tragedy. The official investigation of the Oct. 10, 2003, disappearance of the 46-foot wooden vessel CANDY B. II fell short of definitively concluding that adding two paravanes (booms) left
Not state-owned
To the editor: I would like to correct a statement in your latest newspaper dated February 2005 about the Port of Eastport. We are not a state-owned port as stated in your report. We are a quasi-municipal organization. The port of Eastport is controlled by the Port Authority, which is made up of elected citizens and