“How do we make peace with nature? That is the challenge of our times.” —Sylvia Earle

Maine’s smallest K-12 public school, located on a Penobscot Bay island, is seeking high school magnet students for the 2018-2019 school year.

The Monhegan Museum of Art & History has received a $1 million challenge grant from the Wyeth Foundation. The museum has up to three years to match this gift, the largest in the museum’s history.

“We helped people on the island understand what a special place it is."—Jay Friedlander

The Penobscot Marine Museum, a history and arts museum with nationally-recognized collections, has named Karen E. Smith, as executive director.

Capt. Will McLean recalls sailing the 134-foot steel brigantine Corwith Cramer in 15-foot seas.

In 2014, a group of residents of the town of Ōsakikamijima, Japan, invited the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor to help them start a college.

The Cranberry Isles learned this month it has won a $1.3 million USDA grant to pay for the construction of its broadband network. The work is complete on Islesford (Little Cranberry Island), one of three islands in the five-island Hancock municipality that will have access to the network.

We met a few times, and a member worked with the school board to un-gender our single-occupant bathrooms…