The larger tensions that drive Sparrow come from the tumult of the times in which the story is set. The Vietnam War, which loomed large over college students in 1967...

A letter recently landed on my desk from a reader of The Working Waterfront.

As I adapted to a new home, it took time to stop calling the ocean “the Lake.”

After a little nap during the ferry ride, we drove off on the island side, drove around behaving badly…

“The minerals in the mud around here are really good for your skin." —Willie Drury

Donald Trump may have carried Washington County in the 2016 election, but you wouldn’t know it by the reception progressive Democrat and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio got in Eastport on Jan. 13.

Marine patrol officers Jonathan Varnum (left) and Alex Hebert (right) recently graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy.