http://www.workingwaterfront.com Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:22:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/images/ww_banner_bg.png http://www.workingwaterfront.com http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fire-destroys-Swans-Island-Library/12569/ The Swan's Island Library was destroyed by fire early in the morning of Thurs., July 24. Fire and rescue departments responded to a 911 call around 3:30 a.m., but found the fire had already engulfed the building. The Swan's Island Library, housed in an historic schoolhouse, was home to the library and historical society collections. The building and its contents are a total loss. The library contained over 10,000 volumes, along with digital discs and videotapes. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writers) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fire-destroys-Swans-Island-Library/12569/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Two-Portland-islands-could-lose-polling-places/12475/ When the City of Portland's fiscal year ends on June 30 it could mark the end of polling places on Cliff Island and Great Diamond Island.This is part of a $15,000 cost savings effort that will be voted on by the Portland City Council on July 21.The proposal to reduce the number of polling places in Portland from 16 to 6 is not irreversible, but if it passes, the effect on the two small island communities could be. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Leo Carter) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Two-Portland-islands-could-lose-polling-places/12475/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Cranberry-Report/12452/ On June 11, the Islesford community met at the Neighborhood House for a pot luck dinner and a celebration of Ben Stevens' graduation from the Islesford School. Ben's mom, Sally Rowan, had gathered slides of Ben to show after the supper. Ben's dad, Skip Stevens, gathered his wife and musical friends, Bill McGuinness, Hugh Smallwood, and Kate Chaplin to join him in singing his own lyrics for Ben to the tune of a familiar Bob Dylan song. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Barbara Fernald) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Cranberry-Report/12452/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/About-Lyme-Disease/12469/ People and animals usually contract Lyme disease between April and November when deer ticks are active. May through July is the highest risk period because tick nymphs are abundant and active. Most people contract Lyme disease from nymphs because they are about the size of a pin head and easily overlooked. Wear light clothing in the woods. Tuck pant legs into your socks. Use insect repellent. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Bob Moore) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/About-Lyme-Disease/12469/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/editorials/Time-to-think-differently/12480/ The announcement in mid-June that the Bush administration would ask Congress to lift the current restrictions on offshore oil drilling was yet another reminder of how out-of-touch this country's leaders continue to be on energy policy. Forget the fact that drilling wells on the Outer Continental Shelf won't do a thing to lower gasoline prices this summer. Forget that drilling off this country's coasts was largely shut down in the early 1980s because of the risks to the fishing industry. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David D. Platt) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/editorials/Time-to-think-differently/12480/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-high-speed-Internet-Well-sometimes/12443/ Below is a list of the high-speed Internet possibilities on each island, but the list won't tell the whole story. Each island with a school and/or a public library has high-speed Internet in these buildings, even if the rest of the island is crawling with dial-up.  Some islands are close enough to large mainland towns to enjoy high-speed access through Verizon-Fairpoint (the division between the two after the sale is still often blurred, especially when it comes to Internet. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-high-speed-Internet-Well-sometimes/12443/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Islanders-face-food-sticker-shock/12442/ As the general manager of Carver's Harbor Market in Vinalhaven, Renee Jones is used to the high prices charged by her distributors. But even she was shocked when the prices of some food jumped a dollar in the space of a week. "I had to check the books," Jones said. Other island grocers could commiserate. At the Carrying Place Market on Swan's Island, grocer Sheena Kennedy recently watched the price of a half-gallon of ice cream jump by more than a dollar in a week. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Islanders-face-food-sticker-shock/12442/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Chebeague-holds-its-second-town-meeting/12472/ Sometimes, selectmen's races have the potential to divide communities and leave bitterness among residents. That was not the case on Chebeague Island this year in an easygoing race that lacked campaign signs and contentiousness. The incumbent, Donna Damon, and the challenger, David Hill, were nominated by Michael Porter and Deborah Bowman respectively. A vote was immediately called, and Damon was re-elected (66-29) and immediately sworn in to a three-year term. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Thea Youngs) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Chebeague-holds-its-second-town-meeting/12472/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Parallel-44-Terminal-Decisions/12482/ On a balmy evening last month, the big cruise lines showed up at Portland’s new Ocean Gateway terminal. Not their ships — the $21 million terminal lacks a deepwater berth that can accommodate them — but rather their vice presidents and chief executive officers. Under the soaring roof, they rubbed shoulders with local officials from New England and Atlantic Canadian ports eager for their business. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Colin Woodard) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Parallel-44-Terminal-Decisions/12482/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/North-Havens-Doreen-Cabot-to-exhibit-recent-works/12483/ "Island Merriment," works by Doreen Brown Cabot of North Haven, will open at Waterman's Community Center (WCC), 12 Main Street, North Haven, on July 19 from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit will run from July 19 to Aug. 4 during business hours. "Island Merriment" is a collection of recent works focusing on childhood memories and everyday life on North Haven. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writer) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/North-Havens-Doreen-Cabot-to-exhibit-recent-works/12483/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Toronto-entrepreneur-builds-new-PEI-oyster-plant/12446/ The Prince Edward Island Department of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development has implemented a new program to strengthen the Island's oyster industry in this small province on the East Coast of Canada.This newly announced program, The Quality Oyster Aquaculture Program, would provide financial incentives to produce quality oyster leases offering aquaculture operations 50 percent of expenditures to a maximum of $10,000. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Kathy Birt) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Toronto-entrepreneur-builds-new-PEI-oyster-plant/12446/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Firm-tests-new-tidal-power-equipment-in-the-Eastport-area/12461/ Could electric power generated from tidal currents in Passamaquoddy and Cobscook Bays be sufficient to take Eastport and, possibly, Washington County off the power grid? Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) and Eastport officials are betting it can. To that end ORPC plans to begin commercial power production by October 2009, according to company president and CEO Chris Sauer. His forecast was part of a one-year progress report to Eastport residents on May 22. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Bob Gustafson) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Firm-tests-new-tidal-power-equipment-in-the-Eastport-area/12461/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-Institute-to-celebrate-its-25th-birthday/12462/ The Island Institute turns 25 this summer and will launch its silver anniversary with an extensive show of new work by Peter Ralston, well-known photographer of the Maine coast and the Institute's executive vice-president and co-founder.  The show will run through October 25 and includes new work since his celebrated 1997 book, Sightings: A Maine Coast Odyssey. An image gallery is available on the Archipelago Fine Arts website, www.TheArchipelago.net. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Nancy Carter) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-Institute-to-celebrate-its-25th-birthday/12462/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Venturing/12457/ Sail yourself from the Virgin Islands to Bermuda and you'll encounter a number of working waterfront outposts, places where dedicated individuals provide the services that make this sort of travel possible. Aboard a 44-foot sloop the trip takes a little over six days. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David D. Platt) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Venturing/12457/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/A-Visual-Cruising-Guide-to-the-Maine-Coast/12456/ This very straightforward guide incorporates reduced-scale NOAA charts, brief navigation descriptions and aerial photographs to provide clear instructions on how to enter or leave several dozen Maine harbors. It's readable and straightforward, with the spiral binding that cruising sailors always yearn for as they struggle with their books and charts at the tiller, wheel or sloping chart table.That's what it is; as the author, James L. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David D. Platt) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/A-Visual-Cruising-Guide-to-the-Maine-Coast/12456/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/%A6this-just-in-from-our-Chebeague-correspondent/12451/ I have had multiple calls and emails since the Times article and a Portland PR firm has volunteered to help pro bono! A food scientist at Penn State is interested in determining the recipe for small bakeries and home bakers. New England Cable News and Port City Magazine have called as well!Kraft needs to understand that this is about more than a cracker. It is a response to the homogenization of American culture/society as well as the lack of compassion of major conglomerates. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Donna Miller Damon) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/%A6this-just-in-from-our-Chebeague-correspondent/12451/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fencing-at-the-Fox-Island-Arts-Festival/12453/ North Haven's normal fifth through twelfth grade school population of 39 students tripled when their counterparts from Vinalhaven joined them for the Fox Islands Arts Festival May 29. Fencing on the ball field, choral music at the church, transformations (3-D art from trash) at the Legion Hall and granite-cutting behind Waterman's Community Center were four of the 12 offerings at the festival, held on North Haven. About 120 staff and students came from Vinalhaven to attend. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Lisa Shields) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fencing-at-the-Fox-Island-Arts-Festival/12453/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/An-Island-Golf-Course-for-Everyman-or-Woman/12466/ On a summer day nearly 90 years ago, two old friends were out picking berries when they hatched the idea of starting a golf club on Great Chebeague Island in Casco Bay. Chebeague summer residents George Spaulding and B.R.T. Collins immediately set out to solicit support for the venture. Their friends and some island entrepreneurs embraced the idea and the Great Chebeague Golf Club (GCGC) was established and has been a vital island institution ever since. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Donna Miller Damon) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/An-Island-Golf-Course-for-Everyman-or-Woman/12466/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Golfing-and-Fishing/12467/ During June, the Stone Wharf on Chebeague Island bustles with activity as barges drop off cars and trucks, passengers come and go on the Chebeague Transportation Company's ferry, Islander, and lobstermen rig traps and load them onto their boats. At this time of year, lobsterman Stephen Johnson can be found in the midst of all of this activity fathoming out his rope and making sure his knots are secure. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Donna Miller Damon) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Golfing-and-Fishing/12467/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/The-Wildest-Country-Exploring-Thoreaus-Maine/12455/ In the mini-woods where my small house sits, with a glimmering dawn diminishing the dark in early a.m. hours these days, I wonder where David Henry - or Henry David, as he preferred to be called - was when he jotted in his journal, "the sun is but a morning star... ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Hannah Merker) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/The-Wildest-Country-Exploring-Thoreaus-Maine/12455/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Lyme-disease-continues-its-spread-in-Maine/12468/  Summer is a great time to be roaming the fields and woods of Maine. Before venturing out though, it's wise to take extra precaution against tick bites by tucking pant legs into socks or applying repellent. Deer ticks, correctly known to entomologists as black-legged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. Lyme disease has apparently come to the coast of Maine to stay, and it is spreading steadily into central and eastern Maine. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Bob Moore) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Lyme-disease-continues-its-spread-in-Maine/12468/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Seascapes-Getting-to-Know-the-Sea-Around-Us-and-Muscongus-Bay-Atlas-2008/12464/ Two new publications, appearing first online, detail every aspect of the coastal, marine areas of Muscongus Bay. Besides the specific information about one bay area, the two guides offer an outline for people in other estuaries, communities and organizations to do the same.Both guides were produced under the auspices of the Quebec-Labrador Foundation/Atlantic Center for the Environment (QLF), based in Ipswich, Mass., with a marine program in Maine directed by Jennifer Atkinson of Friendship. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Nancy Griffin) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Seascapes-Getting-to-Know-the-Sea-Around-Us-and-Muscongus-Bay-Atlas-2008/12464/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Can-coastal-granges-survive/12444/ Pete Pedersen believes he has no choice but to answer the call for help with the ongoing grounds renovation at the Vinalhaven Grange.  A summertime Grange member, Pedersen knows if he refuses to help, fellow member Lois Webster will do it. And if Webster, who is in her late eighties and a survivor of cancer, a heart attack and a stroke, is willing to do some hard physical labor, Pedersen thinks he'd better be willing, too. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Can-coastal-granges-survive/12444/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Still-More-on-Pilots/12486/ To the editor: Please add sour grapes to those crackers, from a reader who grew up in northern Maine and lived in Bangor, without ever hearing of Crown Pilot crackers till the April issue of WWF arrived. The two letters in the May issue and one in June moved me to write this one. The Vermont Country Store notes that the secret ingredient giving the crackers their unique flavor is Malted Barley, and says that they "are unchanged after 200 years. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (Byrna Porter Weir) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Still-More-on-Pilots/12486/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Its-Your-Paper-Now/12487/ Time to go. Been at this job for 16 years, more or less, since we started The Working Waterfront in the early 1990s. All that time I’ve been the editor, but now we’ve got a new one so I get to say goodbye by writing him a letter. We started small — the first issue was 12 pages and the type was pretty large to conceal the fact that we didn’t have sufficient stories or ads to fill the space. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (David Platt) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Its-Your-Paper-Now/12487/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/editorials/Islanders-Are-Hearty-Folk-Not/12474/ With this issue of The Working Waterfront, we bid farewell to our founding editor, David Platt, who is not exactly sailing off into the sunset, but has retired from his fulltime duties as editor of the newspaper, Island Journal and publications director for the Island Institute. During the past 15 years that he manned the helm of this newspaper, David left his most enduring editorial legacy. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Philip W. Conkling) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/editorials/Islanders-Are-Hearty-Folk-Not/12474/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Electric-co-op-finalizes-its-wind-power-proposal/12477/ As its annual meeting approaches, the board of the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative (FEIC) is looking for input from ratepayers about a proposal to build two wind turbines that could generate all the electricity needed annually to power North Haven and Vinalhaven.If the co-op decides to proceed, it would be the second largest commercial wind project located on the east coast, according to Dr. George Baker, a professor at Harvard Business School who is helping the islands with the project. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David Tyler) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Electric-co-op-finalizes-its-wind-power-proposal/12477/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Islands-are-the-Canaries-in-the-Oil-Patch/12498/ While the rest of the United States is feeling the pain of rapidly increased fuel prices, rural Maine is in far more desperate shape and island Maine is in the most vulnerable predicament of all American communities outside perhaps of Alaska. On Maine islands, fuel prices have already exceeded $5 a gallon for heating and transportation. Electricity this year, based on fossil fuel generation, costs between two and three times the rate on the mainland. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Philip W. Conkling) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Islands-are-the-Canaries-in-the-Oil-Patch/12498/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Pilot-Crackers-%94-Really-Gone-This-Time/12450/ The Crown Pilot Cracker is off grocery shelves once again. Nabisco, the national cracker and cookie manufacturing company now owned by Kraft Foods, has ceased making the crackers, much loved by Mainers, particularly coastal dwellers who prefer it for chowder. Working Waterfront sounded the alarm in April, with only vague hints that the cracker might actually be on the way out. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandy Oliver) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Pilot-Crackers-%94-Really-Gone-This-Time/12450/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Boys-with-Toys%A6-and-Vision/12454/ One of the great things about living in an island community is the length and breadth a group of friends will go to for a little diversion. Boat launchings, ice boating adventures, timber frame raisings, wind and tidal power generation, cutting and moving monolithic blocks of stone - lofty ideas hatched out around kitchen tables and trips back and forth across the bay - and ones that bring out the ingenuity and Tom Sawyer enthusiasm among island neighbors. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Karen Roberts Jackson) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Boys-with-Toys%A6-and-Vision/12454/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Hit-By-Lightning/12458/ The weather report that Friday night last August called for "thunder showers, ending by morning." It also mentioned "possible lightning strikes." Now I've always put lightning strikes in the category of shark attacks. You hear about them, but they rarely happen, especially to you. Suffice it to say that the lightning storm we experienced on Vinalhaven that night was the worst I can remember. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Harry Gratwick) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Hit-By-Lightning/12458/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Down-East-Lobstermens-Association-prepares-for-harder-times/12459/ Lobstermen all along the coast are worried about the possibility of this year's lobster harvest dipping below last year's, which was the fourth year of a slide from the peak, prompting fears the trend would continue. That worry is why downeast lobstermen are putting their traps in later this year, and why many curtailed their season last year, said Mike Dassatt of Belfast, lobsterman and secretary/treasurer of the Down East Lobstermen's Association (DELA). ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Nancy Griffin) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Down-East-Lobstermens-Association-prepares-for-harder-times/12459/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Lobster-fishermen-adapt-to-high-fuel-bait-prices/12449/ "Lobstering is going to be a part-time fishery here," predicted Deer Isle lobsterman Perley Frazier of a now year-round fishery that started as a seasonal one. "Four or five years ago, someone said the only thing that will put the lobster industry out of business is expenses." He called the lobster back then healthy, beautiful. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Lobster-fishermen-adapt-to-high-fuel-bait-prices/12449/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/FERC-grants-nine-tidal-energy-permits-in-Maine/12460/ In the eternal pursuit of energy, Americans have pumped the desert ground, drilled the Arctic tundra, and blasted the mountains of Appalachia. Now, a new frontier in alternative energy is being explored in coastal bays, harbors, and rivers, and Maine is at the very edge of that frontier. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Catherine Schmitt) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/FERC-grants-nine-tidal-energy-permits-in-Maine/12460/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-Veterinarians-Viewpoint/12448/ Why are more lobsters dying in tidal pounds? Why is mortality increasing? Harrington fisherman, poundkeeper and Maine Lobster Pound Association (MLPA) President Bruce Portrie reported shrinkage rates in his pound and others "increased over the last three pounding seasons." (The industry prefers the euphemism "shrinkage" to "death" or "mortality. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-Veterinarians-Viewpoint/12448/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fresh-caught-fish-reaches-Midcoast-restaurants/12473/ Earlier this month, the Island Institute's Marine Programs Officer, Jennifer Litteral, and Port Clyde Marketing Cooperative Coordinator Laura Kramar climbed aboard the fishing boat SKIPPER for the first gear research trip of the Midcoast Fishermen's Association (MFA). Not only was the day productive for the gear research work, but it was a day that also resulted in the first restaurant sale for Port Clyde Fresh Catch. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Laura Kramar) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fresh-caught-fish-reaches-Midcoast-restaurants/12473/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-students-artists-connect-to-create-art/12481/ For the Twombly-Hussey family of Matinicus, the opening of the art show "Building Bridges" at Julia's Gallery at the Farnsworth Art Museum, was a major event.Lydia Twombly-Hussey had over six of her watercolors featured in the show, along with artwork from eight other island students. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David Tyler) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-students-artists-connect-to-create-art/12481/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Community-Supported-Fisheries/12463/ In the rear parking lot of the First Universalist Church in Rockland, parishioners and neighbors stop to talk as usual after the Sunday service. It's a familiar scene to anyone driving by, but a closer look reveals a surprising new twist: several of the people talking or heading to their cars carry plastic bags with huge fish tails sticking out the top. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Muriel L. Hendrix) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Community-Supported-Fisheries/12463/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Friendship-man-is-still-lobstering-at-84/12485/ Six years ago Carl Simmons lost his wife, Glenys, after 54 years of marriage. Five years ago, his shop burned down, taking his owner-built lobster boat and all his tools with it.That might be enough to stop any man in his tracks, or at least kick him into retirement. Not Simmons. He's still fishing from his hometown of Friendship. After the fire, which may have started from a battery charger, local fishermen set out a pair of tall boots. Townspeople stuffed them full of money. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Steve Cartwright) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Friendship-man-is-still-lobstering-at-84/12485/