Bringing local knowledge into focus A report of the Centre for Community-Based Management Book by: Jennifer Graham, Stephen Engle, and Maria Recchia This book documents Canadian fishermen’s knowledge of local groundfish stocks in the Bay of Fundy, taking a large number of interviews and distilling them down to a series of maps showing where and
Self-propelled rail cars could come to Rockland
Passenger rail service between Brunswick and Rockland, with a ferry connection, could be chugging along by summer. State officials are eying purchase of three, self-propelled Budd cars. At least one of these could be operating along the Rockland Branch on an excursion basis, said Tracy Perez, policy specialist at the Maine Department of Transportation. Eventually,
Construction resumes on Waterman’s Community Center
One might say “come hell or high water, Waterman’s will be completed!” Fortunately the high water factor has already been taken care of. Because of its location right on the water on the island of North Haven, the enhancement of the community center required several adjustments relative to waterfront buildings within the floodplain. Factors such
Challenge grant to help historical society fund new building
The North Haven Historical Society has been offered a Challenge Grant by The National Endowment for the Humanities to help in funding a new Archives Building. This very prestigious award is a 3:1 matching gift opportunity, one of only two challenge grants awarded in the state of Maine and only several dozen across the nation.
At 91, Islesboro’s Pauline Byrd says and does “whatever I darn please”
When Islesboro resident Pauline Byrd turned 90, a circle of her island friends joined her for a birthday party, where she announced that, being 90 years old, she was now going to do and say “whatever I darn well please.” Puzzled looks came over the partygoers’ faces, since this represented no discernible change at all,
Lapointe reappointed
Incoming Gov. John Baldacci asked George Lapointe to continue as Commission of the Marine Resources Department (DMR). One of Baldacci’s first cabinet appointments, Lapointe must be confirmed by the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources and the state Senate. Blair Pyne, Chair of the DMR Advisory Council, lobbied for Lapointe’s reappointment. With all the
Slowly but surely, Long Island builds a new school and library
When Long Island broke ground on a sunny day last Aug. 8 for its library and school addition, no one in the crowd was thinking of the challenges of constructing a building in the winter on an island. CPM Constructors expected to complete the winterized shell by Christmas. But this year, winter came early. There
Herring Gut aquaculture students learn biology and business
“The world is our classroom,” reads a sign on a bus used by St. George area schools for its alternative education students. Part of that world is the study of aquaculture at Herring Gut Learning Center in Port Clyde, where middle school students raise and sell seed oysters, Atlantic salmon and brook trout. These kids
2002: When Trap Day became Trap Week
On Thursday, Dec. 5, I woke at six to several voices on the VHF. “Are we going?” “I’m ready!” “Yeah, ready.” And a “Yahoo!” from the captain of the STELLA. Monhegan’s lobster season had just begun. The start of Monhegan’s six month season is usually Dec. 1 (also known as Trap Day). This year a
Technology students study lobster behavior
If you were a lobster, would the color of trap wire or heads affect your decision whether or not to enter the trap? Would you be more likely to be caught in a two-parlor trap or one-parlor trap? How would you behave around other lobsters in the trap, both smaller and larger than yourself? These