http://www.workingwaterfront.com Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:14:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/images/ww_banner_bg.png http://www.workingwaterfront.com 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/online-exclusives/Electric-co-op-finalizes-its-wind-power-proposal/12496/ 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) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Electric-co-op-finalizes-its-wind-power-proposal/12496/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Coastal-communities-get-creative-to-get-wireless/12343/ A war of words broke out this spring between two business partners, the Internet provider RedZone Wireless and the town of Mount Desert.  Last year, the town signed an agreement to pay $75,000 to RedZone Wireless in exchange for increased wireless coverage and a small percentage of the subsequent profits from new subscribers. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Coastal-communities-get-creative-to-get-wireless/12343/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Boothbay-dealer-Butch-Cressey-has-seen-it-all/12339/ Ask a fisherman or dealer around Boothbay if he knows Leighton Cressey, and he's likely to inquire if Leighton might be related to Butch. Everybody in the fishing business there knows Cressey by his nickname: he's been in the fish and lobster business for over 40 years. Being raised in Boothbay Harbor by his grandparents gave him the advantage of gaining the values of that older generation. (He lost his mother as an infant and his Coast Guard father was stationed in Boston. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Boothbay-dealer-Butch-Cressey-has-seen-it-all/12339/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Schoodic-eco-resort-stirs-controversy/12340/ plan to develop a resort community on the Schoodic Peninsula has met with skepticism among conservation groups and guarded enthusiasm among some Winter Harbor officials. The proposal by the Winter Harbor Holding Company calls for the creation of a resort community on some 3,300 acres in Winter Harbor and Gouldsboro, including an undeveloped island and land bordering Acadia National Park at Schoodic Point. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Schoodic-eco-resort-stirs-controversy/12340/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/wwwworkingwaterfrontcom-gets-a-facelift-becomes-more-timely/12422/ If you’ve visited the Working Waterfront website over the past month, you may have noticed a redesign.The change is the beginning of a new direction for Working Waterfront, which continues to circulate 40,000 printed papers per month. The commitment to produce an outstanding monthly newspaper remains. But with a redesigned website, there is now the ability to offer readers breaking stories as well as original content that can only be found on the Web. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David Tyler) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/wwwworkingwaterfrontcom-gets-a-facelift-becomes-more-timely/12422/