A few years ago I went to Florida on vacation. I’d never seen a woman in a thong before.

April is like a friend who insists on giving me occasional gifts I never asked for or wanted or would dare to give anyone else.

I had a ten-pound bag of flour and time on my hands, so I decided to make my own Cranberry Isles sourdough starter.

The Harbor Watch Inn on Swan’s Island has partnered with Tesla Motors and installed a charging station for electric cars.

On the map of the Penobscot watershed, which was used throughout the venue that hosted Penobscot Watershed Conference on April 9, the image looms even larger. Rain falling near both the Quebec and the New Brunswick borders could end up in the river and bay. Almost all of the I-95 corridor north of Bangor lies within the watershed.

As with timber and granite, we have learned that global connections based on a single commodity are tenuous at best…

The first task students face in Jon Bragdon’s computer electronics class at the technical center is building their own computer. The most gifted as well as the academically challenged thrive together under Bragdon’s teaching approach, which he describes as “giving opportunities for excellence to find itself.”

This event is when I first started feeling I had a place in Frenchboro’s community. The night was goofy, fun and unbelievably authentic.

Osakikamijima is about a third the size of Mount Desert Island and home to 8,000 year-round residents.