Luke’s Lobster has launched an e-commerce platform to offer a number of Luke’s seafood products direct-to-consumer.

The good news: I see people being vulnerable and relying on others out of necessity. When you are faced with a complex problem or a series of related problems, it requires thinking from across many domains of expertise. Within days of acknowledging the local impacts of the pandemic, towns began meeting in new ways that cut across all services. School leaders, healthcare officials, town managers, and transportation providers are meeting weekly to trouble shoot new challenges.

“You could roll a bowling ball down Main Street on a Friday night in 1985 and not hit a soul.”

Consider the extremes of how islands are portrayed in literature, film, and on TV. The island setting often is used to show how the very best of community values can thrive, or how the very worst of human nature can fester.

Biddeford has, in a phrase coined by one local observer, undergone not only a renaissance, but a “Biddesance.”

By Sally Noble

On March 6, the Island Institute began reprioritizing work as the impacts of the pandemic grew locally.

Island and coastal communities, and the people who care about them near and far, must pull together right now.

People may capture their truth in abstract or realist watercolors…