Beals News

In Steuben, Maine, H&H Marine is building a 40' x 14' 10" lobster boat for Lance Ciomei, of Stonington, Maine.

Brian Beal displays a dish of 6-month old softshell clams, typical of some of the research the Great Wass Island field station is conducting.

In this photo made Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, a GPS unit on a lobster boat displays Loran coordinates, in Portland, Maine.

Gary DeLong is retiring at the end of 2010 as executive director of the Maine Seacoast Mission.

A gregarious and curious six-year-old Noah Carver of Beals Island greets neighbors while aboard the lobster boat Mum's Girls, owned by his uncle Dwight Carver and aunt Patty Carver of Beals Island, who were helping their grandson Brevan Kenney, 3, on top of the boat's cabin.

Classes at Winthrop schools are cancelled for the rest of this week because of a swine flu outbreak.

At least two school systems in Maine this week have canceled classes because of unusually high absentee rates.

Kenneth Chandler, 20, of Beals Island, who took a drunken joy ride on a lobster boat in May 2008 and abandoned the boat in the island's harbor allowing it to crash into four other boats, was sentenced Monday to 40 months in prison, with all but two years suspended.

This week on a special High-Definition edition of Bill Green's Maine.... We're traveling to the four corners of the state.

BEALS ISLAND : The Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education is holding a Shellfish Field Day at their facility at Black Duck Cove, Great Wass Island-Beals. The event is scheduled for Saturday, Aug.

Jim Batson and his cousin Rusty Batson of Jonesport sort through their catch aboard Blue Moon to be sold at the Beals-Jonesport Co-op in Jonesport on Tuesday.

Efforts are now under way to ensure the same thing doesn't happen to the state's fishermen.

Maine lobstermen have been racing their boats competitively for more than 100 years.