It appears that the Port of Eastport’s problem of cargo storage space at Estes Head, or lack of it, is on its way to being solved – and the solution may well be a new warehouse with a metal frame and fabric skin. The problem was summed up by Skip Rogers, Eastport manager for Federal
Seafood Goes Latino at Boston Seafood Show
It’s what food retailers dream about: winning new seafood buyers without sacrificing their existing customer base. The common complaint is that the retail food market is saturated with advertising all aimed at the same people. The surprising news to many at the International Boston Seafood Show this year was that new customers exist, and it
Jackson Lab expansion faces criticism
“People say the lab is an eyesore,” said Mt. Desert native and boatbuilder Ralph Stanley, speaking of opposition to a proposed expansion of Bar Harbor’s Jackson Laboratory. “It doesn’t look like an eyesore to me. It looks like security to a lot of people.” Stanley, active in several Mt. Desert historical societies and most things
Along Shore
Alaska has had a high drowning rate for many years. As a response to Alaska’s tragic situation, the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) was formed in the mid 1980s. Now AMSEA is offering two workshops for educators in Maine, at the Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport on April 19-20, and in South
The Time of My Life
“Emily Muir is familiar with the scene and people of ‘Small Potatoes’ from the twenty summers which she has spent in Maine. She has painted its landscape in oils and water colors, and now in words.” So reads the inside flap of the dust cover of Emily Muir’s first and only novel, Small Potatoes, published
Mud and Maple Sugar
April is the cruelest month. It is also the stickiest. Between mud season and the last gallon of boiling sap humming on the kitchen stove, my kitchen is a mess. No wonder God invented spring cleaning. Of course, if we weren’t having a drought the mud would be a sight worse than it is. Wondering
Teenaged Stonington fisherman heads for Australia
In July, 14-year-old Stonington lobsterman Patrick Shepard will have to leave his pots with their Rocket Red and black buoys (a variant on the family colors) in the water for the three weeks he’ll be away as a student ambassador Down Under in the People to People program. While there, he’ll stay with an Australian
In the Mail: Public Safety Committee responds
To the editor: This letter is in response to the letter printed in the February issue of Working Waterfront from Mr. Sean Hall of Orr’s Island. Mr. Hall references a survey he received in the mail concerning sidewalks and roadways. I am not quite sure what he was reading, but the survey he received simply
Opinion: Let’s protect people as well as trees!
Once again Mainers who live on the coast are under siege. We are victims of Maine’s property tax law, which requires town assessors to calculate our taxes based on the “highest and best use” of our homesteads. Unfortunately, this market driven philosophy assumes that we all want to sell out to the folks who can
The Broadbill Swordfishery of the Northwest Atlantic
The author gives a very informative and readable account of the swordfish for those of us who like fish and fishing; and also for those who enjoy reading of the fascinating life that goes on in our oceans. Dana Gibson has done a good bit of research on his subject, as well as drawing from