Folks with a handful of write-in votes have been nudged into office.

Out of my sight on the west side of the island, truly heroic efforts by dozens of area firemen, the Coast Guard and state forest rangers had achieved what had seemed impossible.

It's quiet, just me, a server and the innkeeper, until the night staff appears to start their extensive dinner prep.

Maybe it is a Maine thing, or an island thing, or just not a Connecticut thing, because I was definitely deprived of this creative outlet as a child.

Margaret Wise Brown, author of such children's classics as Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny and The Little Island, had a deep love for Vinalhaven.

Rita MacWilliam came to the tiny one-room, K-8 schoolhouse on Isle au Haut from a life of immersion in new cultural experiences that included working in other tiny schools in out-of-the-way settings.

Broadband could help attract new families that might be able to start new businesses or telework from the island.

Emily Lane, who handles marketing for the Vinalhaven Fisherman’s Coop and also international sales for Calendar Islands Maine Lobster, says a lobster caught in Penobscot Bay is going to meet a lot of people in the next few days.

There is a side to island life that might be eclipsed by fishermen’s working lobster boats and pickup trucks, and tourists walking off ferries.