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Castine Patriot
Championing MMA: A sit-down with Craig Johnson
Interim president focuses on boosting enrollment, keeping graduates competitive
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March 13 ,2025
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Trans-Atlantic flights
Time was, going to bed early, I'd lie awake counting the number of times I have flown across the Atlantic Ocean—more flights than some people; fewer than others; always an adventure.
3 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Popular Castine takeout to open for third season
CASTINE—Safe Harbor, Julia Cooper’s popular take-out restaurant on Castine’s town dock, will be opening for its third season again this spring.
1 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Students to showcase independent study projects
On Wednesday, March 19, from 5 to 7 p.m., George Stevens Academy will host its annual Independent Study and Internship Program (ISIP) Student Exhibition.
1 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Hard-earned skills are key to this family's blue economy success
Dan Hitchcock's first foray into the Blue Economy wasn't intended to be permanent. Instead, Hitchcock's summertime job, working on the Isle au Haut mailboat, was a way for the self-described ski bum, who grew up in western Maine, to earn enough money to get back to Colorado where he planned to live.
3 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Fisheries scientist with local ties nominated to lead DMR
Carl Wilson is state's longtime lead lobster biologist
2 min |
March 13 ,2025
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The importance of dynamic core strength for competitive cheerleaders
On our island, two things define us these days—lobsters and competitive cheering.
2 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Regulators move forward with compensation rules for solar on farmland
Maine environmental regulators moved one step closer on February 20 to implementing rules that would force solar developers to pay for impacts to high-value agricultural land.
2 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Mariners lacrosse teams combine to go 4-0 in huge week
The Maine Maritime Academy women’s lacrosse team logged a perfect week with a pair of impressive non-conference wins.
2 min |
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.
3 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Local students shine at Fishermen's Forum
Students from Deer Isle-Stonington High School and George Stevens Academy took center stage on Friday, February 28, at the 50th annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport to display and explain research projects they had completed as part of the Eastern Maine Skippers Program.
1 min |
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!
2 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Castine novelist pens tale of racial tensions in fictional Maine town
\"When she thought of jumping the gun, she thought of the gun that killed their son. He removed his arm that had stayed around her until then. She was a little breathless as well. He chose not to look at her, but rather to look down at his hands, when he said, the 'Land of Cockaigne.\"
3 min |
March 13 ,2025
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The friendly finch that is worth its weight in gold
It’s one of the earliest signs of spring. Sometime in February or March, that dull grayish green finch coming to your feeder will come into full bloom, brandishing the brilliant yellow and black raiment of a male American Goldfinch in breeding plumage, a designer bird.
3 min |
March 13 ,2025
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'Best pork tendy ever'
I know I have offered a recipe for pork tenderloin here before—one that I still use and love that involves a spicy dry rub—but I tried something different this past week, and my husband declared it the “best pork tendy ever.”
2 min |
March 13 ,2025
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School official warns of phishing scam
School Union 93 is warning of a “phishing incident” involving their emails that occurred on Thursday, March 6.
1 min |
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.
1 min |
March 13 ,2025
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Women's basketball tripped up in NAC title game
Maine Maritime Academy’s women’s basketball season came to a sudden end on March 1, falling in the North Atlantic Conference Championship Game to the SUNY-Cobleskill Fighting Tigers 55-53.
2 min |
March 6, 2025
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Springtime on order
I was on my way to Orland the other day and had a hankering for some root beer.
2 min |
March 6, 2025
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School roof, fire truck spark debate at town meeting
PENOBSCOT-Close to 100 Penobscot residents voted on municipal and school budgets at their annual town meeting on March 4, with extensive discussion aimed at a confusing state funding formula, a new roof for the school, and a new truck for the fire department.
3 min |
March 6, 2025
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Castine town meeting date changed to June 7
CASTINE—Castine’s annual town meeting, originally scheduled for May, has been postponed to Saturday, June 7, at 8:30 a.m.
2 min |
March 6, 2025
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Our legacy
For many years during my morning walks I pass by my neighbors—a sweet couple about 15 years older than my husband and me. We have known them for a long time, but recently we have been able to spend more time with them. They are so kind, offering so many cool ideas, stories and wise advice. I look forward to walking by their house because they almost always either wave through their window, or come out and say hi, and share fun stories of new places and paths that they have discovered. Their generosity of spirit, love and kindness is powerful. It can uplift me out of just about anything and often it is not even a long encounter.
2 min |
March 6, 2025
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Maine Maritime Academy holds regimental change of command ceremony
Interim President Craig Johnson, along with Commander Lonnie Christian, interim Commandant of Midshipmen, presided over the academy's Change of Command Ceremony February 24, welcoming a new group of students into critical leadership roles.
1 min |
March 6, 2025
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Sea level rise consultants update Castine select board
The Castine select board received an update on February 24 from Lisa Vickers of GEI Consultants on the assessment and feasibility study of the town's dock area, which is being developed to address rising sea levels.
1 min |
March 6, 2025
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T&C Market changes hands, now called Castine Market
CASTINE—Ashleigh and Bricken McKenzie, seasonal residents in Castine for 20 years, have purchased Castine’s T&C Market from Todd Tobey, who has owned and operated the store for the past 11 years.
1 min |
March 6, 2025
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Saint Patrick, patron saint of osprey
Well, we're counting down to the “Great Saint's” feast day. Yes, March 17, and while St. Pat is celebrated for ridding Ireland of serpents (a myth, by the way), his feast day has assumed a different significance in my mind. I celebrate St. Paddy’s Day because it marks the return of the osprey to our shores.
2 min |
March 6, 2025
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Penobscot voters reelect Leighton, pass GSA funding
Penobscot held town elections at the firehouse on a bright and cold Monday, March 3. Ballots were cast by 212 citizens, a turnout that was down approximately 30 percent from 2024.
2 min |
March 6, 2025
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Vogel named Officer of the Year by MLA
The award, presented at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum in Rock- port held February 27-March 1, is given annually to a Marine Patrol Officer who has demonstrated out- standing service in support of the Maine lobster industry.
1 min |
March 6, 2025
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Who we are
THE POWER OF LOVE
2 min |
February 20, 2025
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Is the customer always right?
It's an interesting question, isn't it? Is the customer always right? My answer is no.
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