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  • Long Island
    September 29

    Island life protects us from realities of racism

    Our responsibility is not to confront the rest of the world, but to confront ourselves.

    Media

  • Sailing on Rockland Harbor
    September 29

    The sublime joy of sailing, courtesy the Apprenticeshop

    Story and Photos by Jack Sullivan

    When power boats supplanted sailboats, the argument could be made that mariners were free of the reliance on the vagaries of the wind.

    Jack Sullivan

    Media

  • Carla Guenther, chief scientist with the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, displays a chart of the complex warm and cold currents that feed the Gulf of Maine. SCREENSHOT: MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES
    September 28

    Warm currents feeding Gulf of Maine outpacing cold currents

    “We have conditions drawing from the hot-water tap more than the cold-water tap.”

    —Carla Guenther

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

  • Frenchboro
    September 28

    Behind the scenes on this first day of school

    Parents and students were often the last to know anything as school plans were adapted…

    Kate Tagai

    Media

  • PVs sunflower
    September 28

    Going solar on Islesford is only option

    Easily, diesel fuel consumption could be over 300,000 gallons per year…

    Media

  • Harvesters walk the rows of hemp, selectively harvesting plants which have unexpectedly matured. When the harvest is fully underway, Schoppee Farm will employ between 50 and 100 local people per month, a well-received addition to the Washington County eco
    September 23

    Machias farm is betting on hemp

    “The wholesale price for hemp products is about 10 or 15 percent of what it was last year.”
    —Ben Edwards

    Media

  • Wild! Weird! Wonderful!
    September 17

    An affectionate history of Maine

    Each section includes “Maine Rest Stops” where Brechlin spotlights some element of Maine…

    Carl Little

    Media

  • Observer header
    September 17

    Pontificating on the wonders of punctuation

    It is the most erotic punctuation save, of course, the exclamation point.

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • A winter scene on Monhegan Island, shot in 2019 by Dan Debord.
    September 17

    Little island leaps lead to bigger steps

    As I quickly learned on Monhegan, two weeks in the summer is only a small part of the full picture of island life.

    Dan DeBord

    Media

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