http://www.workingwaterfront.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:14:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/images/ww_banner_bg.png http://www.workingwaterfront.com http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Washington-County-gets-federal-grant-to-find-contaminated-Sites/13726/ The Washington County Council of Governments recently won two grants totaling $400,000 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to identify brownfield sites in the county for cleanup. The council is beginning to sift through potential sites for testing, favoring land that has the most potential for redevelopment. Brownfields are sites with soil that has been contaminated from past use. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Washington-County-gets-federal-grant-to-find-contaminated-Sites/13726/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Government-funded-lobster-council-formed-in-Canada/13727/ In the 1950s the television show "Omnibus" presented a documentary called "Maine Lobsterman," a day in the life of a Deer Isle lobsterman named Eugene Eaton. It had a narrative written and spoken by E.B. White. Between Eaton's hauls of his traps White says, "A lobsterman's thoughts return to land, run on ahead of his boat." The thoughts may turn to a problem at home, but says White, "There's always the price of lobster. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Bob Gustafson) Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Government-funded-lobster-council-formed-in-Canada/13727/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Distance-learning-brings-economic-promise-to-Washington-County/13731/ Coverage of Washington County is made possible by a grant from the Eaton Foundation. Sonja Mingo has lived in Washington County her whole life, but for years she thought the only way she could get a master's degree was to leave. "I was working full time and had two kids," she said. She had thought her only option for completing a master's degree in school counseling was to commute two hours from Calais to Orono. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Distance-learning-brings-economic-promise-to-Washington-County/13731/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Venturing-Wood-that-has-history/13724/ Up the street in my town a group of guys is merrily taking apart an old building. The windows and the siding are already gone; the sheathing boards and the frame are on their way. Everything is being carefully sorted-wide boards of any value in a neat pile, other boards and lots of two-by-fours in another pile on the ground, lots of junk and firewood into one of those "cans" demolition crews station next to their projects. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David D. Platt) Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Venturing-Wood-that-has-history/13724/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Vinalhaven-and-Spruce-Head-lobstermen-benefit-from-working-waterfront-program/13722/ All Maine lobstermen are facing big challenges: new rope requirements intended to reduce risk to North Atlantic Right Whales put a financial strain on lobstermen at the same time that lobster prices plummeted; herring quota cuts threaten to cause bait shortages and cost increases; and development and rising land values are squeezing out traditional working waterfront uses. But members of the Vinalhaven Lobstermen's Co-operative are taking these challenges head on. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Hanna Wheeler) Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Vinalhaven-and-Spruce-Head-lobstermen-benefit-from-working-waterfront-program/13722/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/From-the-Town-Landing-Drawing-the-line-on-spatial-planning/13721/ Managing the nation's ocean waters has got to be one of the most vexing and complicated resource-management tasks governments attempt-and it's about to get a lot more complicated. Last June the president created the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, charged with the modest task of developing "a national policy that ensures the protection, maintenance and restoration of the health of ocean, coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources, enhances the sustainability of ocean ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Anne Hayden and Philip Conkling) Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/From-the-Town-Landing-Drawing-the-line-on-spatial-planning/13721/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Beyond-power-Will-offshore-wind-development-bring-jobs/13695/ State legislators and industry advocates have been heralding the coming benefits of offshore wind development: it will reduce Maine's costly addiction to imported fossil fuels, lower the state's ecological footprint, and provided a much-needed stimulus to the state's struggling economy. According to Dr. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Suzanne Pude and Gillian Garratt-Reed) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Beyond-power-Will-offshore-wind-development-bring-jobs/13695/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Objects-in-Mirror-Gotcha/13668/ Benjamin Franklin once said, "Never argue with a man who buys his ink by the barrel." I assume that the Maine Sunday Telegram buys ink by the barrel, but I've got a serious bone to pick with them over their January 24th front-page coverage of the Fox Islands wind-power project. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Philip Conkling) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Objects-in-Mirror-Gotcha/13668/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/More-focus-on-networking-at-annual-fishermens-forum/13660/ Things are changing at the Maine Fishermen's Forum this year. Not only has the schedule changed, condensing the bulk of events to the first Friday and Saturday in March, there will be changes to the content as well. The forum will be held March 4-6 at the Samoset Resort. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Gillian Garratt-Reed ) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/More-focus-on-networking-at-annual-fishermens-forum/13660/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Workers-management-at-odds-at-Milbridge-nursing-home/13647/ Health care workers and management of the Narraguagus Bay Health Care Facility in Milbridge will meet on January 12 to try and diffuse a simmering labor dispute, but tensions have grown between the two sides in recent months. Workers at the nursing home have been operating without a contract since 2008, and they contend management stopped honoring the old contract when automatic pay hikes for long-time employees were frozen earlier last year. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Workers-management-at-odds-at-Milbridge-nursing-home/13647/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/By-taking-test-you-can-help-broadband-mapping-project/13669/ Maine residents have a chance to shape the future development of broadband service, according to a press release.The U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NITA) on January 12 awarded the ConnectME Authority about $1.3 million for broadband data collection and mapping over a two-year period and almost $440,000 for broadband planning over a five-year period. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writer) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/By-taking-test-you-can-help-broadband-mapping-project/13669/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Providing-housing-and-loans-to-Isle-au-Haut-residents-for-20-years/13657/ When a young islander came to Isle au Haut in the late 1980s, he became worried about the island's future. "When I moved to the island in late 1988 the community had 35 year-round residents and one kid in school," recalls Matthew Skolnikoff, one of the founders of the Island Community Development Corporation (ICDC), and the organizations' chairman and administrator for the past 20 years. "There was a real fear that the community would die. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Kate Taylor) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Providing-housing-and-loans-to-Isle-au-Haut-residents-for-20-years/13657/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Container-service-returns-to-Portland/13648/ In late November stacks of 40-foot long containers started reappearing at the International Marine cargo terminal on Commercial Street in Portland. On December 1, the barge Columbia Charleston was loading containers of wood pulp bound to the Port of New York and New Jersey for onward transshipment to destinations around the world. The barge service had been suspended since September 2008, but resumed as the global pulp market shifts to favor the sale of U.S. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Erno Bonebakker) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Container-service-returns-to-Portland/13648/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Yarmouth-mayor-campaigns-to-restore-CAT-ferry/13638/ Without financial help from the Canadian government, the High-speed ferry, The CAT, will not be providing service between Maine and Nova Scotia this summer. And there's a possibility that a monohull will make the crossing in 2011-if the mayor Of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia gets his wish. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Bob Gustafson) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Yarmouth-mayor-campaigns-to-restore-CAT-ferry/13638/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fathoming-What-are-the-marine-impacts-of-offshore-wind-turbines/13667/ Editor's note: We're introducing a new feature called Fathoming. These articles will explore scientific topics pertinent to Maine's coastal waters. The articles are made possible, in part, by funds from Maine Sea Grant. Today there aren't any wind turbines off Maine's coast, but there may be in the next few years.  Maine is actively pursuing ocean wind energy, as are other states, and European nations have already installed over 700 offshore turbines. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Dr. Heather Deese and Catherine Schmitt) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fathoming-What-are-the-marine-impacts-of-offshore-wind-turbines/13667/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/The-Long-View-Offshore-wind-and-the-public-trust/13666/ To anyone who does not know better-which means most of Maine's mainland residents, and lawmakers in Augusta-the waters of the state of Maine look like a featureless ocean out to the three mile limit and beyond into federal waters. Of course, the three-mile limit balloons out around Maine's offshore islands, so the state's territorial limits actually extend up to 22 miles out from the mainland around such islands as Criehaven, Matinicus and Monhegan. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Philip Conkling) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/The-Long-View-Offshore-wind-and-the-public-trust/13666/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/From-the-Town-Landing-New-England-food-fight/13646/ This column originally appeared in the January issue of National Fisherman. For such a little fish, the herring is causing huge problems for the three major fishing industries in New England—the herring fishery, the lobster fishery and the groundfishery for cod and haddock. The reason, of course, is that herring are the glue that holds the marine ecosystem together in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank—and everyone and everything wants to take the herring out for lunch. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Anne Hayden and Philip Conkling) Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/From-the-Town-Landing-New-England-food-fight/13646/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Local-family-are-new-owners-of-Chebeague-Island-Inn/13645/ Editor's note: In an earlier version of this story, Working Waterfront incorrectly attributed quotes about how the inn is part of the fabric of the Chebeague Island to School Board Member Beverly Johnson. We apologize for the error. The Chebeague Island Inn has new owners and news of the sale was announced on Facebook. The inn's Facebook page did not reveal the identity of the buyers, as of mid-January. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Local-family-are-new-owners-of-Chebeague-Island-Inn/13645/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Field-Notes-Making-the-invisible-visible/13635/ Sitting over a chart and a couple of beers at the Black Bull, a fisherman explains to me, "When I can line up Grey Rock and this point of land, I know I am at the western edge of my territory; from there it goes to this corner and runs out to the fifty- fathom curve... this is my family's bottom, and it is part of the community's bottom." In this discussion, lines are being drawn on a seemingly unbound ocean. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Rob Snyder) Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Field-Notes-Making-the-invisible-visible/13635/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Container-service-returns-to-Portland/13598/ In late November stacks of 40-foot long containers started reappearing at the International Marine cargo terminal on Commercial Street in Portland. On December 1, the barge Columbia Charleston was loading containers of wood pulp bound to the Port of New York and New Jersey for onward transshipment to destinations around the world. The barge service had been suspended since September 2008, but resumed as the global pulp market shifts to favor the sale of U.S. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Erno Bonebakker) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Container-service-returns-to-Portland/13598/