Cranberry Isles held its town meeting on Great Cranberry March 10 in the newly renovated Fire House. Not unexpectedly, Hugh Dwelley was elected moderator and sworn in before a standing-room-only crowd that included Islesford students observing the process for a lesson in civics. Frances Bartlett was sworn in as Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes
Flying oatmeal
To the editor: The essay by Phil Crossman [WWF March 03] was a source of GREAT amusement to me. Unfortunately I was working on a mouthful of oatmeal when I got to the part about “local rednecks whose narrow range of understanding could be understood, even forgiven, with only a cursory consideration of their ancestry.”
Who benefits?
To the editor: I would like to respond to David Hill’s letter in last month’s Working Waterfront concerning the Maine Land Bank and Community Preservation program. Mr. Hill misses the point that if you are a resident or non-resident who has the luxury of a second or third home and can’t afford the taxes you
Scientist has concrete idea for lobster habitat
A New Brunswick scientist who has been working with different strengths of concrete is planning to construct lobster habitats out of the material. Buquan Miao, an engineering professor at the Universite de Moncton, has been experimenting with concrete for 20 years and has produced, on the one hand, a substance as light as Styrofoam and,
Swan’s Island voters help fund their music teacher
A cold and very windy March day did not deter a crowd from assembling for Swan’s Island’s Annual Town Meeting, held at the Swan’s Island School on Monday, March 3. Along with the voting residents and a few off-island guests, the eighth grade was in attendance, taking notes of the proceedings on their laptop computers
Affordable housing for cats
Ptld.Condo Wtrfrnt w/View; low rent, free food. If you can read this, don’t bother applying. It’s not meant for humans. Down on Portland’s Union and Widgery wharves, Paul and Kim Fischer take care of their feline neighbors. They’ve set up insulated shelters, which they call condos. They feed the cats, and know which flavors and
Report proposes
A recent report suggests a radical change for state fisheries management in Maine. According to the report, “Reforming Fisheries Management in Maine,” prepared for the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR), the agency could take itself out of the day-to-day management of state fisheries by turning management over to a council made up of elected
Water one could walk on
Rockland Harbor froze all the way out to the breakwater at Jameson Point during February’s frigid weather, and lobstermen could walk to their boats. Most boats stayed on their moorings, but the island ferries plowed through the ice-bound harbor, and a Coast Guard icebreaker also cleared channels. Local historian Bert Snow, who comes from a
Ten Years
Ten years ago this month – in April 1983 -we published our first issue of Working Waterfront. Since then we’ve grown from a quarterly to a monthly, from 16 to (sometimes) 32 pages, from a paper that ended up in Post Office recycling bins to one that’s read everywhere on the Maine coast. So if
Close to home: Two countries try community-based management
Community-based resource management, a simple-sounding concept, actually requires hard, frustrating effort say, those who try it. Despite the obstacles, a few organizations in New England and Atlantic Canada are slouching toward some measure of success. In recent years no resource issue has been more contentious in Atlantic Canada than the native vs. non-native fisheries problem.