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  • Upper Main Street on Nantucket.
    November 17

    Letters to the editor: Nantucket thoughts

    Nantucket native remains islander

    To the editor:

    Staff Writer

    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

  • Oyster restoration on Mobile Bay in Alabaman.
    November 1

    ​Restoring wild oyster beds, one acre at a time

    An estimated 70 percent of commercial marine fish species in the northeast U.S. live in estuaries…

    Media

  • Students disembark from the ferry on Islesboro
    October 31

    Wishing for life-changing memories for our youth

    A good friend recently introduced me to the work of writer Annie Dillard. She is now an even better friend.

    Rob Snyder, Ph.D.

    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

  • From The Beginning: Vinalhaven from...
    October 23

    A good read about the early years on Vinalhaven

    Those lives and the people who lived them were extraordinary and determined…

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Students are recognized at an Eastern Maine Skippers program event in Ellsworth.
    October 23

    ​Education out of the classroom, onto the water

    Clearly, he was bright, and probably would go far, equipped with confidence and natural verbal skills…

    Tom Groening

    Media

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