Although I’d worked for Island Institute for 11 years, I was green as a CEO when I took the reins in 2013.

If we didn’t cut firewood and grow gardens in summer, we’d freeze and starve in January.

“Bones!” a student exclaimed. “More bones!” another echoed.

Now, if you’ve ever attended or watched a city council budget meeting, you know that something as mundane as sidewalk construction can spark debate.

The biggest decision will be how to equitably and safely choose a way achieve a 50 percent reduction in vertical lines.

It’s as if … we have locked ourselves into “a running car in a sealed garage.”

Over the course of the last 30 years, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (also known as the Law Court) has issued a series of legal opinions about the extent of public rights in the intertidal zone.

Everyone around me has the same pinwheel-eyed expression.

Oh, how we islanders long to drive our cars directly from the grocery store to our houses.