March 13, 2010 | Incorporating the Inter-Island News

Communities: Online Exclusives

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Communities: In This Issue

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Field Notes: Housing policies on an island scale

by Rob Snyder

Working residents, people who often have a good jobs sterning on a lobster boat or teaching in the school are increasingly unable to save up to buy an island home.

Mano en Mano, a nonprofit that wishes to build the workforce housing, filed suit against the town of Milbridge, alleging officials there illegally discriminated against the group.
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Milbridge workforce housing proposal tangled up in lawsuits

by Craig Idlebrook

The town of Milbridge faces two lawsuits and a possible federal complaint over its handling of an application to build low-income workforce housing.

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Performance center brings entire community together

by Sandra Dinsmore

When Suzy Shepard, Stonington hair stylist and fisherman's wife and mother came to the first tryout for Fiddler On The Roof, she never planned to try out for a part.

Communities: Past Issues

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
JANUARY 13TH, 2010

Field Notes: Making the invisible visible

by Rob Snyder
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
DECEMBER 29TH, 2009

Workers, management at odds at Milbridge nursing home

by Craig Idlebrook
ARTICLE
DECEMBER 2009-JANUARY 2010

Rediscovering the art of fish cutting

by Antonia Small
ARTICLE
DECEMBER 2009-JANUARY 2010

Port Clyde family spans four generations who still fish

by Steve Cartwright