News - Penobscot Bay
By GEORGE CHAPPELL; OF THE NEWS STAFF SEARSPORT - Environmentalist Ron Huber of Rockland said he believes the proposed industrial part of Sears Island should be given the same oversight as the conservation side receives.
By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF The area known as The Basin is a short drive or bike ride from the village shops, traditional island homes and working waterfront along Vinalhaven's downtown strip.
SEARSPORT - The Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition will celebrate the autumn season with an Edible-Medicinal Plant Walk 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Oct. 4, on Sears Island. Lao Gillam will lead this third and last walk in the coalition's series of Sears Island plant walks.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: George Baker of Harvard Business School, +1-617-495- 6119, gbaker@hbs.edu; or Chip Farrington of Fox Islands Electric Cooperative, +1-207-863-4636, cfarrington@foxislands.net VINALHAVEN, Maine, July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/--In an overwhelming show of support, members of the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative from the islands of Vinalhaven and North Haven, Maine voted 382 to 5 last night in favor of siting a wind-power project in their community.