Principal Ken Spinney considers personal learning plans to be part of educational best practice…

I went back to the island to share the scary news and a hug with Elaine…

Coffin donated his photographic archive to the Penobscot Marine Museum in 2013 and it was digitized and cataloged over the past four years. Sadly, Coffin passed away last May, but his efforts to preserve and share Maine’s Midcoast maritime history will be a perpetual asset.

The $10 million ferry would be funded mostly by federal grants, and begin operating in 2021. The transit district’s board of directors believe the larger vessel is necessary...

The Island Institute awarded Donna Wiegle with its Community Champion Award at the organization’s annual Waypoints Forum in Portland on Feb. 8.

The Werners will be one of few active fishing families in Maine to own and operate their own restaurant.

The late Andrew Wyeth, one of America’s most famous artists, is well-known for his Maine paintings of people and scenes from Port Clyde to Cushing. He is less known for Rockland paintings, but they exist and are on display through February at the Farnsworth Art Museum.

The Maine Seacoast Mission has announced that John Zavodny, Ph.D., will be its new president beginning on Feb. 19.

By William Hall

Despite its three-story ice-making plant at the seaward end of the Portland Fish Pier, Vessel Services Inc. is almost invisible to passers-by at the other end, along bustling Commercial Street.