My relationship with Chandler "Blackie" Blackington began about a decade ago when I traveled to Vinalhaven to visit the community's medical center and eldercare home, exploring the possibilities for Swan's Island. Blackie was my tour guide.

Waterfronts and those coastal towns that bustle with visitors in the summer tend to go quiet after the new year dawns. But that doesn't mean decisions affecting those waterfronts and towns aren't being made.

Bertha's spoon has sent me into my own kitchen to see what, if anything, someone could learn about my cooking habits from the tools I have used for the 45 years or so that I have cooked.

It's nearly impossible to disagree about anything of consequence when settled comfortably near a companionable wood fire.

A retired fourth-grade reading teacher, she's recently published her first collection of poetry, Cutting the Grass with Scissors—Monhegan Poems.

Sam and Doreen Cabot own Foggy Meadows Farm on the island of North Haven, Maine where they raise Boer goats and Katahdin sheep with compassion.

From among a field of 17 applicants, Powell was the unanimous choice of the search committee and the congregations of both churches after a year-long process.

Islesboro eighth-grader Ryan Murphy would rather be outside on his unicycle, working his way through the obstacle course that is the Pendleton Yacht Yard, where he practices several times a day.

Belfast's Front Street Shipyard has been the biggest thing to happen to the city's waterfront since the poultry plant was demolished in the late 1990s and the high-end yacht service yard is poised to expand again.