It's nearly impossible to disagree about anything of consequence when settled comfortably near a companionable wood fire.

Christmas Day in the Cranberry Isles arrived with winds high enough to cause ferry cancelations, though the air temperature was unseasonably mild. Fortunately for us, our family had arrived two days earlier.

Steve Eldridge began work as Vinalhaven's new town manager on Dec. 1.

A retired fourth-grade reading teacher, she's recently published her first collection of poetry, Cutting the Grass with Scissors—Monhegan Poems.

Helping people tighten up their island homes against the sometimes brutal Maine winters, exacerbated by winds off Casco Bay, is an easy sell, especially as the realization settles in that cheap fuel is a thing of the past.