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.

Community cookbooks like this one open a window into community life.

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

PHOTO STORY BY KATIE JOHNSON

You see, she believed that islands tap into survivalist powers that many people believe they have…

If there were any doubt about the role schools play in island life, they were set to rest by the ceremony marking the reopening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elementary School on Great Cranberry Island. About 200 people from Great Cranberry and neighboring Islesford (Little Cranberry Island) showed up...

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.

There is a shortage of nearly 9,000 units of affordable housing available to older residents…

“The compromise was prioritizing marine uses, but allowing other uses to spur investment.”

—Bill Needelman