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Slowing traffic, paving roads among 2025 Deer Isle select board priorities
Newly sworn in after being elected, Patricia “Patty” Oliver was ready for business at her inaugural meeting of the Deer Isle Select Board on Thursday, March 6. The three members of the select board are now Oliver, Peter Perez and Ronald “Ronnie” Eaton.
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March 13, 2025
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A feast of vultures
This column is about vultures, so if you are eating breakfast or the thought of these dedicated carrion feeders makes you squeamish, pass this column by.
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March 13, 2025
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Mariners Soar! Empty Bowl Supper
After school program to support nutrition and enrichment programs
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March 13, 2025
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Late to the bread bake
I was not one of the many who started baking bread during the pandemic lockdown.
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March 13, 2025
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Trump administration agrees to 'renegotiate' Maine's canceled Sea Grant funding
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will “renegotiate” the terms and conditions of the work to be performed by Maine Sea Grant “to ensure that it focuses on advancing Maine’s coastal economies, working waterfronts and sustainable fisheries,” U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Wednesday in a statement.
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March 13, 2025
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School Union 76 superintendent applications deadline closed
CSD 13 welcomes new board member Witham
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March 13, 2025
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Cooking with love
It was my father's birthday recently and, for whatever reason, it hit me harder than usual this year.
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March 13, 2025
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DIAA March artist a longtime multifaceted creator
The Deer Isle Artists Association announces that David McBeth is the March Artist in Residence.
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March 13, 2025
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For second year in a row, student actors head to state finals
THE ISLAND—Deer Isle-Stonington High School students' theater production of Treasure Island has won the Downeast Maine Class B Regional on Mount Desert Island, sending the show to the state final on Friday and Saturday, March 21-22, in Millinocket. DISHS also won the annual MDI Tech Olympics at the event.
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March 13, 2025
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Opportunity Fund gives $63K to local organizations
The Opportunity Fund, a charitable organization run by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Castine, has announced its support of five area organizations thus far in 2025.
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March 13, 2025
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Sleep and dreams
I recently attended a workshop and devoured a new book by Dr. Rubin Naiman, Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening, He is recognized as a world leader in integrative sleep and dream medicine and passionately helps people with sleep issues. His way of combining scientific, psychological and spiritual approaches are healing thousands of people. I wish I could give one of his books to everyone who struggles with sleep!
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March 13, 2025
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Library hosts story time with firefighters
Children also get firsthand look at fire station
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March 13, 2025
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OFIP hosts Black Balloon Day
Students at the Deer Isle-Stonington High School participated in honoring those lost to overdose on Black Balloon Day, March 6, in partnership with the Opiate-Free Island Partnership.
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March 13, 2025
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DMR presents local couple with excellence award
Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher presented John and Judy Williams of Stonington the annual DMR Andy Mays Award of Excellence at the recent Fishermen's Forum in Rockport.
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March 13, 2025
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Back-and forth against Narraguagus a season best, despite the loss
The girls basketball team lost to number one Bangor Christian in Bangor 44-20 on February 5.
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February 20, 2025
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Lawsuit over red listing of Maine lobster allowed to continue
A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit filed by a group of Maine lobster businesses against a California aquarium to go forward.
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February 20, 2025
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Grohoski appointed to the Maine Artificial Intelligence Task Force
On January 28, Sen. Nicole Grohoski, D-Ellsworth, was appointed to the Maine Artificial Intelligence Task Force by Senate President Mattie Daughtry, D-Brunswick.
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February 20, 2025
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Aquaculture taken off the warrant in Deer Isle
Select board pulls ordinance after public hearing debate
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February 20, 2025
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Honk's Island sold, building demolished
Honk's Island, the small rocky outcropping west of the Stonington Fish Pier, has been sold.
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February 20, 2025
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Were winters worse?
Maybe, in some ways, when they didn't receive weather reports on the radio, TV, phone, internet, etc. Farmers and mariners used natural signs. Last winter there wasn't that much snow; January was quite warm in 2024.
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February 20, 2025
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Witham announces write-in candidacy for CSD 13 school board
Jessica Lynne Witham has announced her write-in candidacy for the Deer Isle-Stonington Community School District 13 school board, bringing nearly 30 years of educational experience and leadership to the race.
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February 20, 2025
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Deer Isle budget down as town meeting approaches
Deer Isle residents are set to vote on a town budget that is 7 percent smaller than last year, according to Town Manager Jim Fisher.
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February 20, 2025
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Coastline Physical Therapy, YMCA collaborate on fall prevention program
Coastline Physical Therapy has announced a new partnership with the Blue Hill YMCA, in collaboration with Healthy Island Project, Healthy Peninsula and Healthy Living for ME, to bring the nationally recognized Matter of Balance program to the Peninsula.
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February 20, 2025
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Winter souping
I make a version of this soup every year, when soup season strikes and I am craving something hot, substantial and aromatic.
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February 20, 2025
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Dewey-Wood Scholarship Fund applications now available
The Dewey-Wood Scholarship Fund is now accepting 2025 applications. Applicants must be a DISHS graduating senior and/or nontraditional student with an educational goal, which may include travel, and who has a commitment to lifelong learning and a sense of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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February 20, 2025
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Forum hosts Island school board, Deer Isle select board candidates
A Meet the Candidates event hosted by the Deer Isle Sunset Congregational Church provided an opportunity for the community to interact with two candidates running for one seat on the Deer Isle select board and four candidates vying for two Community School District 13 school board seats: three declared candidates and write-in Jessica Lynne Witham.
6 min |
February 20, 2025
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School garden and greenhouse project launched
The Petty Foundation has partnered with Healthy Peninsula to launch the School Gardens and Greenhouse Project.
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February 20, 2025
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'Tur-a-ling' goes the Red-winged Blackbird, ‘tur-a-ling'
I write these words on the eve of Groundhog Day, the vernal milestone that marks the mid-point between the first days of winter and spring.
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February 20, 2025
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Simmer down or sit down
If you're a fan of high school sports, we need to talk.
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February 20, 2025
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Who we are
I've been a math teacher for most of my career, and I am fascinated with numbers. I love how they tell a story and line up in the most unusual ways. The Fibonacci sequence is one of my favorite math topics. But here is another cool concept: if we could travel back in time, tracing the branches of our family trees, the number of our ancestors doubles with each generation.
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