Offering reliable childcare and preschool programs helps lure and retain adults who want to live and work on the island.

We watched women in hijabs meeting their children at the school bus, and our students absorbed the direct impact…

North Haven Community School, Maine’s smallest K-12 public school with an average of 60 students, is seeking mainland students to participate in the pilot year of its new magnet program.

Ten Days in Acadia: A Kids’ Hiking Guide to Mount Desert Island

By Hope Rowan/Art by Jada Fitch

Published by Islandport Press, 2017

Educational Passages provides schools, for a cost, with 5-foot-long plexiglass boats that are equipped with GPS tracking devices. The boats are launched along the East Coast and most of the time, they are carried by the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift currents to Europe.

Sea lampreys are a particularly gruesome kind of parasite, latching their circle of teeth into the flesh of other fish and even humans.

"I went to Calais because I heard about something I could not accept…” —Izza Drury

A $1.8 million gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation tops off the funding needed to complete a $5.8 million expansion of the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education.

I didn’t expect to be working on two plays simultaneously, but working with such dedicated actors and crew has been invigorating.