Long Island News

Lobster boats tore past the Rockland Harbor breakwater Sunday morning, leaving white rooster tails - and spectators' cheers - in their wakes.

For members of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, there's nothing better than getting their motors running and heading down the highway.

None could be happier to learn that Highland Farm is now protected and in the hands of the York Land Trust.

Hardcover, 160 pages, 204 color photos, 10" x 8-1/2". An eye for composition, texture, form, and color, and a willingness to break ordinary garden 'rules'--these are just some of the talents visual artists bring into play as they design their gardens.

For the photographs of the Frenchboro residents, please view Down East's online gallery, 'Paula Lunt: Faces of Frenchboro' here.

The Casco Bay town of Long Island currently uses a World War II naval supply building as its community center.

Lobster landings value drops $50M AP FILE PHOTO In this July 2007 file photo lobster scientist Diane Cowan holds a 2-pound lobster underwater in a lobster pound on Friendship Long Island, Maine.

The Casco Bay Lines board of directors is considering a new rate-increase proposal that would keep a 50-cent fuel surcharge on ferry passenger tickets through August.

The Associated Press 5 comments A late winter snow storm stretches across the East -- from Alabama to Maine.

A deck hand collects tickets Thursday as passengers drive their cars onto the ferry for the trip to Peaks Island.

IT'S SO COLD THIS MORNING THAT... COWS ARE PRODUCING ICE CREAM... GOOD HUMOR MAN IS SELLING HOT CHOCOLATE... STORM SKIRTS THE COAST... As you know by now, it's the coldest weather of the season and the coldest ...

The NEFSCa s aerial survey team saw 44 individual right whales on Dec. 3 in the Jordan Basin area, located about 70 miles south of Bar Harbor, according to a press release.

It was supposed to be fun. Instead, it grew a bit scary for a few minutes. There were cold, tired people.