The state ferry service is concerned about a recent trend in which more emergency boat trips are made from the islands to the mainland, disrupting scheduled trips.

Late last year and through the new year, community leaders on Chebeague Island worked to craft a set of recommendations for changes that are aimed at keeping bicyclists safe

That muffin was a transformative experience.

We met a few times, and a member worked with the school board to un-gender our single-occupant bathrooms…

With as many as half the ticks on Swan’s Island infected with Lyme disease, state officials approved a special hunt to reduce the deer population, the primary host animal for the ticks. The hunt concluded on March 1.

The middle of the deck is kind of a no-man’s land where everything mixes when the boat is full.

ESPN shared a story about a basketball stuck behind a wood stove causing a tie game.

Reflections is a monthly column written by Island Fellows, recent college grads who do community service work on Maine islands and in remote coastal communities through the Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront.

We crawled all over trying to find the source of this alarm that continued, undeterred, every 60 seconds.