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Writer, filmmaker Peter Davis reads from first novel in Castine Aug. 6

CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy’s Department of Arts and Sciences will host writer, filmmaker and Castine resident Peter Davis reading from his new novel Girl of My Dreams at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6 at BIW Auditorium on the college campus. The novel follows the adventures and misadventures of a young screenwriter who comes of age… SEE MORE

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‘Luminous Maine’: The photographs of Louis Cabot

Photographer Louis W. Cabot is exhibiting canvas prints of his photographs of the Maine coast at Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery from Aug. 15 through Sept. 7, with an opening reception with the photographer on Aug. 15, 5-7 p.m. Archipelago and the Island Institute invite the public to join them for an evening of great food, wine… SEE MORE

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Right place, right time—marine patrol officer saves fisherman

Marine Patrol Officer Benjamin Burnes, 23, who graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in May, has already put his training to good use, saving the life of a man whose canoe capsized while fishing recently on the York River. At about 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, Burnes and… SEE MORE

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Kathleen Reardon promoted to lead DMR lobster biologist

Kathleen Reardon, who has coordinated the Maine Department of Marine Resources’ lobster monitoring programs for the past ten years, has been promoted to the position of lead lobster biologist. Reardon succeeds Carl Wilson who previously held the job until he was promoted to director of the DMR science bureau in February.… SEE MORE

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I’m Annie, but I’ve got no gun

By Courtney Naliboff As I write this, I've just started rehearsals for the Waterman Community Center's summer production of Annie Get Your Gun. I'm Annie. Along with the requisite singing, dancing and acting, the show requires a certain comfort and familiarity with guns. Although I grew up in rural Maine,… SEE MORE

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Oil, water and poorly considered science mix in Destiny

Reviewed by Tina Cohen The cover of Carl Howe Hansen's first novel presents some powerful allusions. The photograph by Peter Ralston features what we can assume is the book’s Pine Island, a typical Maine island of granite and spruce with raw exposure to the elements, a resistance to being tamed.… SEE MORE

Archipelago's assistant manager Frances Holdgate shows off Richard Robertson's ceramic work.

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Store serving island artists marks 15th anniversary

The challenges of living on an island are many, but for an island artist, there is one more: getting your work recognized off-island. But a shop and gallery on the mainland has made it its mission to help island artists—and Maine’s mainland artists, too—earn a living from their art. Archipelago,… SEE MORE

A photo of Bishop that appeared in a 1994 New York Times review of One Art: Letters

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‘Master’ poet Elizabeth Bishop had North Haven connection

By Carl Little —To have no personal moods at all, to have only the same moods that the weather has here on North Haven Island—that would be the (perfect) temperament, for the rest of life the rest of life…. When the poet Elizabeth Bishop’s letters were published in 1994,… SEE MORE

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Busy town agenda coincides with busy island life

By Phil Crossman Vinalhaven is usually governed by a five-member board of selectmen, but this year—this month, anyway—we only have four. There were no candidates for the two vacancies in the May election and so the top two write-ins were invited to take office. I had 20-something write-in votes because,… SEE MORE

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Muffins, doughnuts and the little blue house

By Barbara Fernald Forty years ago I had a college roommate who amazed her friends by making English muffins from scratch. She baked them in a covered skillet sprinkled with cornmeal to keep them from sticking. She passed the recipe along to those of us who were interested. A few… SEE MORE