To the editor: Colin Woodard (WWF June 03) is hard on Puritans and lumps good people with a fanatic clergy. He shares historian Banks’s bias in favor of the peaceable loyalists in Maine whom, wrote Banks, the Puritans persecuted and plundered. Yet some of us in York thought even worse the Royal Commissioners whom England
Canada plans to protect large female lobsters – sometime
Within the space of 24 hours in May, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced its plan to protect some female lobsters off the coast of Prince Edward Island – and then conceded that it didn’t have the equipment to implement it. DFO officials declined to elaborate, but Ken Campbell, communications officer for the
Islesboro school starts orchard
Islesboro Central School Horticulture teacher John Pincence, along with students David Pike and Craig Delaney, planted three apple trees on May 7 in a newly-developed orchard on the school’s grounds (Bonnie L. Mowery-Oldham photo).
Long Island holds town meeting
On Saturday, May 3, Long Island held its annual town meeting. Mark Greene was unanimously elected to preside as moderator. After an initial nomination of Warren Brayley for Selectman, which produced the immediate reply “My wife says I respectfully decline,” Thomas MacVane won the three-year seat with 56 votes to Bradley Brown’s 31. Joe Oldfield
Cruise Ships, 2003
The story of the future of the cruise industry on Portland’s waterfront is all about conjecture right now. The projections of business going forward, and the estimates on revenues looking back, depend upon whom you ask. Also at issue is what “economic impact study” or “strategic action plan” holds the most water – all depend
Crab decision sparks riot, but boycott ends
A boycott of the snow crab fishery by traditional New Brunswick crabbers to protest a federal quota decision was canceled on May 20, effective May 23. Called on May 5, one day before the season opening, the boycott was intended to protest the decision by Fisheries and Oceans Minister Robert Thibault to lower the total
Alice Siegmund gets a charter
The research vessel ALICE SIEGMUND has been awarded a contract from the Maine Department of Marine Resources to conduct a sea urchin survey from west Penobscot Bay to Petit Manan. The ALICE SIEGMUND will be surveying over 45 sites in that area, beginning June 2 and finishing June 20 (Bob Coombs photo).
Teacher Appreciation Week
On May 9 (during Teacher Appreciation Week), Islesboro Central School teachers were treated to an elegant luncheon provided by grateful parents (Bonnie Mowery-Oldham photo).
Map translation error clouds PEI herring waters
Herring seiners from New Brunswick are fishing in a shallow exclusion zone off the Prince Edward Island coast, and the problem is due to a map and translation error, according to Ken Campbell, communications officer for the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association. What makes the seiners’ intrusion serious, said Campbell, is that their drags are
Frenchboro’s baby boom necessitates a preschool
Twenty years ago, Frenchboro decided it wanted to grow. With the help of the Rockefeller Foundation and many others, the Frenchboro Future Development Corporation was formed, and undertook a project to provide affordable family housing. The goal was to attract young families, and today it’s clear the plan worked. All 12 lots in the affordable