This nagging feeling that I was unprepared and out of place took a long time to subside.

I offered them a week's waterfront lodging, a ride around the island with a friendly lobsterman who'd give them a chance to steer the boat and haul a few traps, breakfast at Surfside, lunch and dinner at whichever of the two island venues interested them,...

I know he was being territorial, but I like to imagine it as avian curiosity about our human world.

At their annual town meeting on Saturday, May 30, residents overwhelmingly approved raising and spending $206,830 to begin the process of building a town-owned broadband Internet network.

Earlier, a hunter had butchered a deer on this spot and left the remains behind…

It is, no doubt unnerving for some of us to observe a friend candidly facing and planning for her own demise.

Bruce Fernald recently traveled to the Napa Valley to attend the 17th Annual Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival at the Culinary Institute of America. He participated in a seminar with Sam Hayward and Cara Stadler, two Maine chefs, who were cooking lobster in various forms.

Over 15,000 miles of often-treacherous coastline were charted with remarkable accuracy...

Islesboro and Isle au Haut have each postponed their annual town meetings.