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  • Who doesn't love cute little duckies?
    June 20

    Islander teamwork rescues feathered family

    It was clear to those assembled that this was the end for the chicks. The raging current would carry them…

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Son of a Gun, Vinalhaven
    May 26

    Confronting a simple truth, a word at a time

    When it was revealed to me that one of the three old men I’d passed was, in fact, Scottie…

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Ferry crosses Rockland harbor.
    April 24

    My April Fool’s joke is a believable nightmare

    It generated such outrage that it was taken down from Facebook within hours...

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Vinalhaven's state champion team
    March 8

    The team within the team also deserves praise

    These girls are a remarkable bunch. They instinctively hand off real time leadership from one to the other…

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • The women's march on Vinalhaven.
    January 30

    Vinalhaven participates in women’s march

    The mission of the women’s march is inclusivity, to ensure protection of the rights, safety and health of us all

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Trump and Obama
    November 10

    Thankful for one president, bracing for another

    I will not allow any effort to build a wall to go unchallenged or any attempt to curtail the influx of refugees from horror and war…

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Serving a dish of food
    October 25

    ​Adventures in eating out

    In way over his head and not in an agreeable frame of mind, he stormed across the dining room, gathering his wits about him…

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Tidewater Motel
    September 23

    Guests find motel romantic, fisherman- and mink-friendly

    As he kept trying and failing to get her re-started, the boat drifted quickly, with the incoming tide, till it banged up against the deck of room 4

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Joanie and David.
    August 24

    Making lemonade not from lemons, but from love

    Island legend, writer and historian Ivan Calderwood left his island home and land to the town of Vinalhaven for the purpose of providing a home for older islanders no longer able to adequately provide for themselves.

    Phil Crossman

    Media

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