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Island slowly, carefully reopens for business

STONINGTON—A pickup truck drove by Suzy’s Scissor Shack one morning and tooted its horn as Suzy Shepard, wearing a mask, put up her “Open” flag for the first time in weeks.

Lack of EV charging stations creates challenges

BLUE HILL—Owners of electric vehicles have few local options to recharge their cars.

At Sue's School of Dance, the show still went on

And it’s still going on—at home

Thomas C. Eaton - Remembrances 8/21/48-4/17/20

CAPE NEDDICK—Tom was born to Eugene B. and Carolyn M Eaton. From an early age Tom loved being on the water and got his first fishing license at the age of 6.

TradeWinds, Co-op require face coverings to enter

BLUE HILL—The two major grocery stores in Blue Hill, TradeWinds Market Place and the Blue Hill Co-op, are now requiring all customers to wear face coverings to shop.

Nobody said giving away lobster would be easy

DEER ISLE—Brent Oliver came up with the idea as the price of lobster plummeted during the first few weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why not donate excess lobster to a good cause? he thought.

Community helps GSA respond to emerging needs

BLUE HILL—“Oh gosh, that’s amazing!” a George Stevens Academy junior said when teacher Elizabeth Moss told her the school would soon provide a smartphone to be used as a mobile hotspot.

Free food from the Ross family

STONINGTON—Mike and Diana Ross have six hungry mouths to feed, but on Friday they gave lunch to anyone who drove by their house on Airport Road.

A ‘corona bump' for some food shippers

STONINGTON—After the St. Patrick’s Day rush, Stonington Seafood usually experiences a lull in online orders for kipper fillets and finnan haddie. Not this year. The COVID-19 pandemic created what owner Richard Penfold calls the “corona bump”—in sales, that is.

THE BRAINIEST HITTER

Can Joey Votto outsmart age?

EXILE IN THE AGE OF MODI

How Hindu nationalism has trampled the founding idea of my country

Being Friends With Philip Roth

During his last two decades, we spent thousands of hours in each other’s company. Ours was a conversation neither of us could have done without.

Robert Stone's Dark Dream of America

His novelistic ambition to define the national condition is more relevant than ever.

What China Wants

Chinese leaders’ combination of superiority and insecurity is growing more dangerous. The U.S. needs a new strategy to reflect that

“At 14, I Could've Pointed Out everybody Who Would Be Dead"

Nikki King grew up surrounded by the opioid epidemic. Now she's leading a novel and promising program to help people in remote areas.

The Shark and The Shrimpers

After the BP oil spill, a well-known lawyer helped land a $2 billion settlement for gulf coast seafood-industry workers, including 42,000 vietnamese fishermen. Only one problem: they did'nt exist.

Childhood in an anxious age and the crisis of modern parenting

Imagine for a moment that the future is going to be even more stressful than the present. Maybe we don’t need to imagine this. You probably believe it. According to a survey from the Pew Research Center last year, 60 percent of American adults think that three decades from now, the U.S. will be less powerful than it is today. Almost two-thirds say it will be even more divided politically. Fifty-nine percent think the environment will be degraded. Nearly three-quarters say that the gap between the haves and have-nots will be wider. A plurality expect the average family’s standard of living to have declined. Most of us, presumably, have recently become acutely aware of the danger of global plagues.

Sedgwick may partner up to bring back alewife runs

$1.25 million grant-funded project

Schools drop off nine days of meals for 190 families

STONINGTON—In two hours on Friday, April 17, nearly a thousand meals in brown boxes landed on driveways in Deer Isle, Stonington and Sedgwick. School staff and volunteers had loaded school buses with enough food to tide over 190 families during spring break and then delivered it to their homes. Community School District Superintendent Chris Elkington personally took eight boxes to four Isle Au Haut families on the mail boat that morning.

Fab Lab, local mom making protective equipment

DEER ISLE—A peninsula woman and Haystack’s Fab Lab director are taking orders for personal protective equipment (PPE) from hospitals, ambulance corps, and congregate care facilities coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.

How the Abolitionist Grandfathers of Modern Libertarianism Won by Losing and Lost by Winning

WHILE EUROPE WAS IN REVOLT, AMERICA HAD ITS OWN FREE SOIL REVOLUTION OF 1848.

IMMIGRANTS HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY TOO

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has started forcibly collecting DNA samples from immigrants in detention and sending that information to an FBI criminal database called the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) for permanent storage.

In Zimbabwe, It's Crisis As Usual

A NEW ROUND OF HYPERINFLATION WAS TAKING A HEAVY TOLL ON DAILY LIFE, EVEN BEFORE THE CORONAVIRUS HIT.

Joe Biden Won the Democratic Primary. But Bernie Sanders Won the Party.

TWO WEEKS BEFORE ordinary American life was completely upended by COVID-19, Joe Biden had effectively captured the Democratic primary nomination with a campaign that amounted to a single promise: a return to normalcy.

Traffic Stops in Black and White

Supreme Court imposed new limits on police authority to grill drivers during routine traffic stops last year, Bobbin Singh of the Oregon Justice Resource Center called the decision “incredibly important for communities of color.”

WOODROW WILSON'S LIBERTARIAN LACKEYS

Beware the temptation to collaborate with the state.

Vermin Supreme Says This Time, He's Serious

IN 2016, THE Libertarian Party’s presidential ticket, former Republican Govs. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, had the most executive experience in the field.

America Wasn't Ready for Coranavirus

Early takeaways from the country's response to a pandemic.

Union Justice Confidence

Did Louisiana enact a bogus health law as a pretext for banning abortion?

Plan Bee

It’s time for the lawn to start kicking grass