This year’s census of alewives migrating upstream has been at recent highs, with 250,000 “river herring” counted this year...

Setting up a new town was not cheap...

“I guess I have a gimmick and didn't even know it." —Rachel Noyes

I got the van warmed up and all the temperature and fan controls just the way I wanted them.

Whether I was summer people or island people was never clear to me.

“We're exposing visitors or seasonal residents to the artists on the islands…” —Carrie Brezzo

By Tom Walsh                                 

If you don’t know much—or even anything at all—about Rachel Carson, here’s your chance.

Tempers flared at the July 12 meeting of the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board about, ironically enough, angry ferry passengers.

Frenchboro fisherman Andy Smith, his sternman Daniel Saxby, and local contractors were scrambling in late May to finish construction of Smith’s new Mussel Ridge 46 lobster fishing boat, Sylvia Mae.