Vinalhaven Calling

By Phil Crossman

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• A glorious, uproarious Fourth

  By Phil Crossman - Jul 07
  Fourth of July celebrations out here had, until recently, been sponsored by the Vinalhaven Health Council, because laughter is healthy and the ...
  

• Sea-level rise leads to revival of an old idea

  By Phil Crossman - Jun 23
  On Aug. 17, 1894, the United States Congress passed the latest of many iterations of the River and Harbor Act, which was first enacted in the ...
  

• Ducklings rescued

  By Phil Crossman - Jun 09
  As near as anyone has been able to tell so far, there were ever only two water-powered granite polishing mills in the world (one may have been in ...
  

• Good prospects ahead for Vinalhaven School

  By Phil Crossman - May 26
  This promises to be a very good year for the Vinalhaven School. Last year’s Class D Gold Ball winners, the Lady Vikings, have retained all the ...
  

• Sidewalk side-tracked

  By Phil Crossman - May 12
  In 1987, the Vinalhaven Board of Selectmen hired an engineering firm to design a sidewalk to replace a dangerously deteriorated asphalt walkway ...
  

• A delicate subject

  By Phil Crossman - Apr 28
  This is a delicate subject but one I need to touch on. I like baseball and now and then enjoy watching the Red Sox. When the occasional seasonal ...
  

• Children collect trash, putting elders to shame

  By Phil Crossman - Apr 14
  Every state has designated a flower as its own. Maine is the only state not to have christened an actual flower blossom for that particular ...
  

• Road trip, part 2

  By Phil Crossman - Mar 31
  We did eventually move along from our lakeside berth in Mississippi, but not far. We drove from the southern part of the state to the northeast ...
  

• Not quite as indisposed as I'd imagined

  By Phil Crossman - Mar 17
  We left the island a couple of days ago on an extended road trip in a sweet little Eurovan and got off to an inauspicious beginning. The camper ...
  

• Hometown heroines

  By Phil Crossman - Mar 02
  Although to have been at the Vinalhaven ferry terminal when the last ferry docked last Saturday night, you’d never know it, there are people in ...
  

• Alewife stampede

  By Phil Crossman - Jun 30
  A couple of weeks ago I reported on efforts undertaken by the Department of Marine Resources, the Vinalhaven Land Trust and a handful of interested...
  

• Here Come the Alewives

  By Phil Crossman - Jun 16
  This week, the Department of Marine Resources returns to Vinalhaven for the second installment of "Here Come the Alewives." As reported last year, ...
  

• Things looking up at Vinalhaven School

  By Phil Crossman - Jun 02
  Things are definitely looking up at the Vinalhaven School. Grades kindergarten through 12 are housed in a fairly new and generally spectacular ...
  

• Cure for insomnia

  By Phil Crossman - May 19
  Jack Waterbury passed away last week. He was a former military pilot and had retired from flying jets commercially since. About 30 years ago, when ...
  
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  No planet B

  By Phil Crossman - May 05
  Vinalhaven has, in recent years, and in the last two decades, grown a vibrant activist community, thanks, in particular, to a few conscientious ...
  

• Government rip-off

  By Phil Crossman - Apr 21
  We are getting ripped-off and we don’t have the resolve or resources to do what needs to be done to make things right. The government is not ...
  

• Road trip, final leg

  By Phil Crossman - Apr 07
  The road trip is drawing to a close. We were in the Great Smokey Mountains in Georgia last week, driving the spectacular twists and turns of the ...
  

• Road trip

  By Phil Crossman - Mar 24
  Last year we bought a Eurovan Camper. It's a 2003, the last year they were built, has been lovingly cared for by two previous owners who only ...
  

• The difference is teamwork

  By Phil Crossman - Mar 10
  Vinalhaven’s Lady Vikings travelled by bus back to Rockland after decisively winning the state’s Class D basketball championship last Saturday in ...
  

• Seeking, and finding, something uplifting

  By Phil Crossman - Feb 23
  Every now and then, when I feel overwhelmed by events, I search for something uplifting. For the last few years that’s sometimes been pieces of ...