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

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

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

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

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

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

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