John Boit 10/6/26 John Boit 10/6/26

LETTER: Thanks for letting me be part of a Sesame Street neighborhood

Watching island life unfold from behind counter of a tiny post office

John Boit 9/15/26 John Boit 9/15/26

LETTER: Steel band concerts remind me why I returned to the peninsula

Recalling the pleasure of looking into the faces of hundreds of people and seeing pure, unfiltered joy

John Boit 9/15/26 John Boit 9/15/26

Brooklin’s flags remind one writer of ‘the right to say when we have fallen short’

John Boit 9/11/26 John Boit 9/11/26

Rebecca Gratz of Deer Isle-Stonington High School led students through the timeline—and a moment of silence—for those lost 25 years ago

John Boit 9/8/26 John Boit 9/8/26

She navigated students to safety, plus other thoughts on the national repercussions from the terrorist attacks

John Boit 9/2/26 John Boit 9/2/26

Deer Isle development is in final capital campaign push to house the ‘missing middle,’ writes Stonington’s town manager

John Boit 8/18/26 John Boit 8/18/26

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

Guest User 6/17/26 Guest User 6/17/26

‘We are now watching in real time a corporate power-grab happening in Maine’s tidal rivers and estuaries’

John Boit 4/14/26 John Boit 4/14/26

The powerful are keeping us distracted and hating each other

John Boit 4/8/26 John Boit 4/8/26

Investors need a reason to spend money on Maine, but right now the state is ‘dead in the water,’ writes a Sedgwick resident