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Castine Film Festival announces lineup
Castine Film Festival announces lineup

Community and connection are among this year’s themes

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Deer Isle and Stonington hire their first housing manager
Deer Isle and Stonington hire their first housing manager

New position to focus on Island housing shortage

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Whales continue to delight onlookers
Whales continue to delight onlookers

Impressive leaps and close encounters with Maine’s biggest summer visitors

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Local kids practice basketball drills with Cooper Flagg
Local kids practice basketball drills with Cooper Flagg

NBA Rookie of the Year hosts basketball camp with his brothers at UMaine

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Efforts underway to restore Brooksville’s once lively hall
Efforts underway to restore Brooksville’s once lively hall

Aug. 30 breakfast will kick off $40k fundraiser for improvements

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Local sea captain guides tanker to safety through Strait of Hormuz
Local sea captain guides tanker to safety through Strait of Hormuz

Brooksville captain recounts what it took to navigate the world’s most dangerous passage

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LIFESTYLE

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BOOK REVIEW: An oyster renaissance
BOOK REVIEW: An oyster renaissance

A ‘shellfishly motivated’ book for those who slurp the delicacy on the half shell - and even those who don’t

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BACKSPACE: Places, everybody
BACKSPACE: Places, everybody

Surry’s summer playhouse once drew chauffeur-driven patrons and notable actors like Henry Fonda

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Tilth & Timber finds community in Castine
Tilth & Timber finds community in Castine

Tiny farm has big local impact

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My Wild Neighbors: Drifters
My Wild Neighbors: Drifters

Lion’s mane jellyfish can be six feet across with 120-foot tentacles. Here’s how you treat a sting.

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POEM: Short summer
POEM: Short summer

‘We wait so long…it goes so fast’

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Penobscot man carries on the Rowantrees tradition
Penobscot man carries on the Rowantrees tradition

Geoff Miller learned to make one of the Blue Hill’s Peninsula’s most iconic pottery styles 45 years ago. Now he keeps the flame alive.

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REVIEW: Cariani play finds beauty amid the darkness
REVIEW: Cariani play finds beauty amid the darkness

Darker the Night, Brighter the Stars closes this weekend 

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COPS & COURTS

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False plates flagged
False plates flagged

Police log for Aug. 16-17

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PUBLIC MEETINGS

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Surry Select Board Meeting
Aug 19
Surry Select Board Meeting

Select Board meetings are held at 6pm on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month in the Surry Fire Department meeting room.

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Bucksport Town Council Meeting
Aug 20
Bucksport Town Council Meeting

Council meetings are held at the Bucksport Town Office on the second and fourth Thursdays of every month at 6:00 p.m. Meeting agendas are posted at the Town Office and on the website.

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Sedgwick Select Board
Aug 20
Sedgwick Select Board

Meetings are held at the Sedgwick Town Office.

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OPINIONS

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20 years after ‘Tire Tracks’ left a mark
20 years after ‘Tire Tracks’ left a mark

Let’s use the anniversary of a film about burning rubber to shape our shared future

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LETTER: Raising the alarm on surveillance cameras
LETTER: Raising the alarm on surveillance cameras

We shouldn’t allow Flock Safety cameras into our community

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LETTER: The loss of fisheries should be an alarm for humans
LETTER: The loss of fisheries should be an alarm for humans

Our understanding of the mechanisms of extinction is woefully inadequate, says a Brooklin resident

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