My grandmother’s spatula can slide between a frying pan and a pancake without driving into it like a snowplow.

I had a ten-pound bag of flour and time on my hands, so I decided to make my own Cranberry Isles sourdough starter.

Don McLaughlin and all the other World War II veterans from Vinalhaven will soon have a new memorial in their honor.

Great Cranberry Island’s 40 or so year-round residents know that if roads need to be plowed, trees cut, fields mowed, firewood split, land cleared, wells drilled or anything hauled, they can call Blair Colby.

A few years ago I went to Florida on vacation. I’d never seen a woman in a thong before.

April is like a friend who insists on giving me occasional gifts I never asked for or wanted or would dare to give anyone else.

The Harbor Watch Inn on Swan’s Island has partnered with Tesla Motors and installed a charging station for electric cars.

On the map of the Penobscot watershed, which was used throughout the venue that hosted Penobscot Watershed Conference on April 9, the image looms even larger. Rain falling near both the Quebec and the New Brunswick borders could end up in the river and bay. Almost all of the I-95 corridor north of Bangor lies within the watershed.

We'll admit that this one is a bit obscure. It's in the southern half of the state, and it's on an island.