Category: Communities

Island Fellows: A ‘Peace Corps for the Islands’ Fellows reverse Maine ‘brain drain,’ provide extra hands BY ABIGAIL CURTIS The board funded the Fellows program in 1998, and the following year the first two hardy souls were placed on Monhegan and in Casco Bay. It was the kind of blustery… SEE MORE

The Winter Game Basketball on Maine Islands   The water pipes on Vinalhaven have frozen. Well, they may have frozen. No one really seems to know what happened, but an early January bitter cold stretch—daytime highs in single digits—has put some kind of hurt on the municipal water system. One… SEE MORE

On Halloween morning, as the Margaret Chase Smith crossed the silvery reach of Penobscot Bay between Islesboro and the mainland, the passenger compartment was abuzz with the sounds of giggling children putting the final touches on their costumes. The quieter, Carhartt-clad workmen who also rode the ferry for the three-mile-long… SEE MORE