In an era when it was not fashionable, and maybe even dangerous to do, North Haven native Lowell "Pete" Beveridge chose progressive politics and crossed stark racial lines.

Editor's note: Reflections is a monthly column written by Island Fellows, recent college grads who do community service work on Maine islands through the Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront, and AmeriCorps.

My sins included being late, getting heat exhaustion in the grasshopper room, inadequately cleaning cage screens…

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.

MACHIAS—To Julie Barker, Helen's Restaurant is more than a building.

The key to success "is a single harvester, with fire in the belly, skin in the game and a sense of delayed reward."