May 20, 2013 | Incorporating the Inter-Island News
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Island gardens—veggies among the deer and rocks

by Kaitlin Webber May 17, 2013
The Swan's Island meat man making a delivery to Mary Sullivan, 1920.  Courtesy of the Alec Munsell Collection, Swan’s Island Historical Society.
Kaitlin Webber
Swan's Island Village and Minturn can be mired in fog and gloom or wind and rain while folks in Atlantic sip lemonade on sunny porches. Atlantic's known for its better soil conditions and currently holds the island's largest garden. Read More
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Recreational, working waterfronts clash in Surry shellfish bid

Another hearing set for June 18

by Craig Idlebrook May 15, 2013
Trenton shellfish beds.
Morgan Bay has not had any working waterfront operations for several decades. In that time, it has developed as a prime vacation rental spot and some residents are worried about a loss of income if the lease is granted. Read More
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Fiddlehead fever

by Philip Conkling May 15, 2013
Philip Conkling
Fiddleheads, the spring's first greens, remind us that the season has finally turned. It is an axiom among principled fiddlehead foragers that you never take more than a third of the fiddleheads from a single group of fronds lest you shorten their already impermanent existence. Read More
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Those little river fish may bring big ocean fixes

Salmon ate smelt. Striped bass ate young eels. Did cod eat alewives? And what are they eating now?

by Dr. Heather Deese and Catherine Schmitt May 14, 2013
Cod
Throughout the 19th century, citizens up and down the New England coastline protested what they saw as excessive harvest of inshore and river fisheries, and some of them mentioned linkages to the valuable cod fishery. Read More
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Fuel-efficient lobster boat design moving forward

Trimaran performs well, Penobscot East Resource Center finds

by Craig Idlebrook May 13, 2013
The trimaran hull prototype.
A more fuel-efficient lobster boat would have the added benefit of reducing the industry's carbon footprint. And if the new lobster boat design takes off, it could mean more work for Maine's boatbuilding industry. Read More
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Legislative committee votes to restart climate change planning

If approved by full Legislature, move reverses LePage action

by Kate McCormick May 10, 2013
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Off-shore wind project takes tangible form

Prototype will be moored off Castine

by Catherine Schmitt May 9, 2013
The base of a prototype for an off-shore wind turbine.
At the end of May, the pieces will be brought to Cianbro's facility in South Brewer, where crews will assemble the full 65-foot turbine and place it on a barge for transport down the Penobscot River. At Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, VolturnUS will become the first offshore floating wind turbine to generate electricity in the United States. Read More
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All charged up at COA: electric vehicles get a local boost

College would allow public to use stations

by Laurie Schreiber May 8, 2013
Alex Pine at COA's charging station.
Installation of the chargers came about through the efforts of COA junior Alex Pine, who was aided in the installation by senior Lisa Bjerke. Pine, who drives a biodiesel car, said students were looking into buying a van to service Beech Hill Farm and COA's Peggy Rockefeller Farms. Read More