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  • Observer header
    August 12

    It’s a wet and wild world for this old man

    Each challenged me to a fight—right in front of their parents…

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Cezar
    August 5

    From Brazil to Great Cranberry, the food travels well

    “They embraced me when I got here. It’s peaceful and the view is astonishing.”

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    August 5

    Let us be thankful for lettuce

    I have grilled or broiled, depending on my mood and the weather, fluffier heads of lettuce…

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • tudents on Frenchboro add soil amendments to their garden plot. PHOTO: COURTESY LAURA VENGER
    July 30

    Frenchboro school sends students home to garden

    “Every student had to learn how to grow all of their crops from start to finish…”

    Robin Chernow

    Media

  • Isle au Haut
    July 28

    Island images demand answers to deeper questions

    I watched as the winch wound the cable up and the cabinet swung out over the still water.

    Molly Siegel

    Media

  • Two empty rockers on Bailey Island lawn.
    July 28

    Tourism industry adapted, but more help needed

    In April, the numbers showed restaurants down 58 percent and hotels down 80 percent.

    Media

  • Observer header
    July 27

    Strained relations with the ferry service

    On a late spring morning in 1920, the steamboat Governor Bodwell was docked at Tillson’s Wharf in Rockland and preparing to depart for Vinalhaven. Shoveling coal below decks was my grandfather...

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • Cranberry Report
    July 27

    Gardening is a balm for worldly worries

    One of the best things about Maine is it has the cool climate many perennials like.

    Barbara Fernald

    Media

  • Lubec-Campobello bridge
    July 27

    Lubec, Campobello suffer from border closure

    Six months of very limited access to and from Campobello Island in New Brunswick and Lubec in Maine are having real impacts on real people on both sides of the FDR Bridge.

    Tom Walsh

    Media

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