Three young women pose for a photograph at the steamship wharf at Sandy Point in Stockton Springs. PHOTO: COURTESY PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM

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Steamboat days in Stockton Springs

Three young women pose nervously for the camera in our image this month. They are dressed for an outing and are holding parcels, maybe containing their lunch. Their chaperon, a spinsterly-looking character, is clearly not amused at the spectacle they are causing on the busy steamboat wharf at Sandy Point… SEE MORE

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Regional work challenges idea of community

This type of regional collaboration provides a vehicle for improving social and economic opportunity... SEE MORE

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The story of the forgotten sea mink

A group scientists and community members supported by the National Science Foundation are working to understand the role the sea mink played in Maine... SEE MORE

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A card for you

Among our many interesting island traditions is one that’s wonderfully functional. Before one of our favorite institutions, The Paper Store, closed, whenever an islander died, or someone with an island connection—a seasonal resident for example or even the mainland relative of one or the other—a little basket appeared on the… SEE MORE

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Christmas expectations are child’s play

After three years of missing out on being together for the holidays, I asked our sons and their families if they would like to come home to Islesford for a family celebration. They agreed, as long as they could still be in their own homes for Christmas morning. One family… SEE MORE

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The toil and time of breakfast

Somebody recently told me that millennials weren’t eating as much packaged cereal as they used to because pouring milk into it and then cleaning up the bowl afterwards took too much effort. I thought, surely that’s apocryphal. Nope. In 2016, the Washington Post reported that cereal sales were lagging and… SEE MORE

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Take a break, or it takes you

As I bustled down the school hallway between dropping students off at their elementary classroom and eating a quick lunch before recess duty, something unusual caught my eye. A sea urchin, a resident of the ocean tank outside the kindergarten room, had pinned a piece of rockweed between the aquarium… SEE MORE

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Category: Opinion

Steamboat days in Stockton Springs

Regional work challenges idea of community

The story of the forgotten sea mink

A card for you

Christmas expectations are child’s play

The toil and time of breakfast

Take a break, or it takes you

Explorers inked their deals with the press

Visiting Kristen Lindquist’s haiku island

When the helper needs help