My relationship with Chandler "Blackie" Blackington began about a decade ago when I traveled to Vinalhaven to visit the community's medical center and eldercare home, exploring the possibilities for Swan's Island. Blackie was my tour guide.

Surveys show they are moving up the coast and inland.

Bertha's spoon has sent me into my own kitchen to see what, if anything, someone could learn about my cooking habits from the tools I have used for the 45 years or so that I have cooked.

It's nearly impossible to disagree about anything of consequence when settled comfortably near a companionable wood fire.

In addition to critical structural work on the tower, the lighthouse committee is looking to replace the fog bell that originally accompanied the light.

Christmas Day in the Cranberry Isles arrived with winds high enough to cause ferry cancelations, though the air temperature was unseasonably mild. Fortunately for us, our family had arrived two days earlier.

Steve Eldridge began work as Vinalhaven's new town manager on Dec. 1.

A retired fourth-grade reading teacher, she's recently published her first collection of poetry, Cutting the Grass with Scissors—Monhegan Poems.

Sam and Doreen Cabot own Foggy Meadows Farm on the island of North Haven, Maine where they raise Boer goats and Katahdin sheep with compassion.