Most towns schedule their festivals in July and August. What about moving some to September, or even October?

John and Sara will move to Leeds, on the mainland near Augusta. “We want to build a house on 100 acres we’ve bought, and do more with livestock,” John said, a bit apologetically.

“Russia is really the bellwether for the public order of the Arctic.”

—James Kraska

Robin Alden, a former commissioner of the state’s Department of Marine Resources (DMR) and current director of the Stonington-based Penobscot East Resource Center (PERC), has been named a White House champion of change for her work on sustainable seafood issues.

PHOTO STORY BY KATIE JOHNSON

As he kept trying and failing to get her re-started, the boat drifted quickly, with the incoming tide, till it banged up against the deck of room 4

Fishermen who set up a CCF can write off the money they add to the fund each year.

As editor and publisher Edward French chats with me about the paper’s history and role at its office on the Eastport waterfront, he glances out the window, from which we can see the city’s fishing pier, Canada’s Campobello Island and—at this moment—a whale breaching.

Hilton Turner, chairman of the Zone C Lobster Council, said a survey of the zone’s membership earlier this summer showed 73 percent of respondents favored closing the zone’s open-access system.