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  • Setting kelp lines on Vinalhaven.
    November 17

    On Vinalhaven, business hopes kelp will help fishermen

    Emily Lane, president of Vinalhaven Kelp, Inc., leads a board of directors that requires 70 percent of the business shareholders to make their livelihood from some sort of fishing.

    Kris Osgood

    Media

  • Dr. Ross Greene, speaking to members of the Chebeague Island community.
    November 17

    Ross Greene offers new strategy for teaching, raising ‘human beings’

    “All of us look bad when the expectations placed on us outstrip our skills.”—Ross Greene

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • Diagram shows how mice program would work
    November 17

    ​Gene ‘editing’ on mice tested in war on ticks

    A potential new tool in the fight against tick-borne diseases is being developed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist and his team, but it, too is not without controversy and it may take a decade before it’s available.

    Stephanie Bouchard

    Media

  • An old-fashioned kitchen.
    November 2

    ​Thinking conservatively about kitchen energy

    The uninsulated room is a great place to store canning jars, the feral cat, and in cold weather, food.

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Gulls on the coast.
    November 2

    Considering the birds is a balm for troubled mind

    One of the things I love about October and November in the Cranberry Isles is the increase in bird stories. It is migrating season and most people out here keep an eye on the birds...

    Barbara Fernald

    Media

  • Courtney Naliboff leads a workshop on ukulele playing.
    November 2

    Teachers conference bridges isolation gap

    I was excited to share the ukulele ensemble program I’ve started on North Haven.

    Courtney Naliboff

    Media

  • Bill Trevaskis works with fellow teachers at the Island Teachers Conference.
    November 1

    Island teachers share cross-curricular methods at conference

    Bill Trevaskis, the sole music teacher for students in the pre-K to 12th grade Vinalhaven School, explained how he worked with his colleagues to a group of teachers at the Island Teachers Conference in Belfast on Oct. 5-6 ...

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • From left, Kathy Morton, one of the owners of the Harbor Gawker, along with her daughter, Amanda Roberts, and her granddaughter, Brianna Bartlett. The family talk with Cody Roberts, Morton's grandson.
    November 1

    Harbor Gawker says goodbye

    PHOTO ESSAY BY COURTNEY MOONEY

    Media

  • A cluster of houses overlooks Nantucket Sound from the island's north shore.
    October 23

    Nantucket as symbol of undesirable island fate

    And another lesson: Nantucket is so wonderfully preserved in its 19th and 18th century splendor because when the whaling industry died, the island became a ghost town. It was only in the 1930s that...

    Tom Groening

    Media

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