Construction, following all permitting, is expected to be completed in 2023.

In the August issue, we ran a photo of the U.S. Coast Guard vessel Cowslip calling at Monhegan Island. Reader Dick de Grasse of Islesboro writes:

Obviously, returning to traditional life-ways doesn’t pay the way tourist industry jobs do…

It is the most erotic punctuation save, of course, the exclamation point.

Her steady recounting of a different history punched me in the heart…

He may shine in a lobster boat—tough and tenacious—but not in a marriage bed.

I was nursing my second beer and anticipating that favorite dinner I’d ordered a few minutes earlier. Two young people entered and settled in...

Like everywhere else we’ve all learned different ways to do business to try to stay safe from the virus. If you come to the island, do your best to stay healthy and keep others protected...

Dave Macy describes his theology as “to the left of moderate. I try to be biblically correct as I was taught in seminary,” but that’s tempered by working to respect the range of individual beliefs.