Isle au Haut

Maine's island communities suffered serious damage during the January and March storms. After collecting 20 bags of debris on one trip, volunteers are heading back.

The nonprofit is working closely with communities for accurate head counts and to figure out trip rotations, to avoid both vaccine shortages and oversupply.

Energy developers are increasingly turning to intelligent grids that use real-time data to balance supply and demand at the local level. While there are obstacles, these "microgrids" play a growing role in environmental sustainability and even national security.

Black Dinah Chocolatiers, named for a mountain on Isle au Haut, told customers on Facebook that it will drop its name after a more than a decade in business, citing the Black Lives Matter movement and concern about customers' reaction to the name.

The number of visitors to Acadia National Park is down slightly for the year so far, and an August decline hit one portion of the park especially hard.

The Keeper's House Inn, six miles off the mainland on Isle au Haut, went on the market July 9 for $1.975 million.

Isle au Haut is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to get its electricity from a solar-powered...

After spending a day on Isle au Haut last month reporting my Oct. 14 story, “An island community confronts its economic challenges,” I returned to the mainland with uneasy feelings about the future of the year-round island community.

Isle au Haut, six miles long and two miles wide, is one of 15 year-round island communities in Maine, yet is among those with a tenuous hold on year-round sustainability. It faces many of the issues faced by small towns throughout Maine but magnified by the fact that its entire year-round population would fit in a typical small-town diner.

The Island Institute released a report Wednesday outlining the lack of broadband Internet access on Maine islands, options for solutions and the economic benefits of improved service.