How do you get to the State House? Practice, practice, practice. Last October, 16 students from the Chebeague Island school picked up violins for the first time. Six months later they were playing at the State House for the opening of the Maine Legislature. Not bad for a group of fourth through sixth graders. Even
Isle au Haut passes school budget, discusses junk cars
Isle au Haut’s annual town meeting was held March 25 in Revere Memorial Hall with 43 people attending. Elected moderator Ted Hoskins and re-elected town clerk Sue MacDonald kept the pace swift and efficient, covering 73 articles in less than four and a half hours. In a close race for first selectman, Peter Burke won
Natural resource industries organize for mutual understanding
Communication and understanding. Never have they been more essential for the health of Maine’s farming, fishing and forestry industries, which are so vital to the health of the state’s economy. Some of these enterprises feel their ability to survive is being threatened by increasing restrictions which affect them. Jeff Kaelin, independent contractor for Heritage Salmon
Monhegan elects assessors, passes budget
Monhegan residents gathered April 16 for their annual plantation meeting. The election of First Assessor presented some obstacles, with the first seven nominees declining to run. At one point it was humorously suggested that instead of a First, Second, and Third Assessor, perhaps they should elect Second, Third, and Fourth Assessors. In the end Daniel
A significant change of command for the BOWDOIN
When the fabled schooner BOWDOIN departs for one of its voyages from Maine Maritime Academy in Castine this summer, it will be under the command of two women – for the first time in the vessel’s history. Captain Heather Stone, from Michigan by way of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, will be in command, and her first
Baaaaaaaaa……
As sure as the black flies arrive every spring, the sheep get rounded up on Allen Island for their semi-annual checkup and shearing. On Saturday, June 8, the Island Institute will once again be organizing a group of hearty volunteer shepherds to go out to the island and spend a day corralling sheep and enjoying
Newfoundland town wants to tax fishermen as businesses
A Newfoundland town has come up with a tax plan that could have implications for fishermen across Atlantic Canada and beyond – negative implications, according to the fishermen. The Springdale, Newfoundland, town government has decided that taxing fishermen as businesses is a good way to increase revenue. Fishermen respond that the tax is wrong-headed and
Jean Brown Wetherbee
Jean Brown Wetherbee of Vinalhaven died March 25 at the age of 84. She was a long-time reporter and editor who worked for the Hartford Courant and the Newington (Conn.) Town Crier before moving to Vinalhaven, where she had spent summers, in 1984. On Vinalhaven she became editor of The Wind, and worked in that
Diversifying to survive; A Kennebunkport fisherman acts on his brainstorm
Fisherman Michael Day of Kennebunk likes to kid around and say the idea for his alternative marine-based occupation – tour boat operator – was the result of “a fisherman going to bed at night after he’d eaten too much garlic and waking up at 1 a.m. with a brainstorm.” But actually, it is part of
What the law allows
To the Editor I would like to correct a statement in the article that Muriel Hendrix reported in the April 2002 edition of the paper. I probably stated to her that I fished 20 strings of four traps when I should have stated that I fish “20 traps set in groups of four.” I realize