When you live on an island, you make some tradeoffs. There will be beautiful, idyllic days filled with walks along the waters edge and moments of quiet contemplation. You’ll form nearly unbreakable bonds with the community of other resourceful folks who have chosen the same lifestyle as you. In return, you’ll also endure days of […]
Kody Scott (right) and Devon Maxwell have been friends for as long as they can remember. The high school students grew up together in Lee, just east of Lincoln. Like many rural Maine kids, the boys spent much of their childhood fishing for trout and playing baseball. As teenagers, one of their favorite places to […]
David and Sally Wylie spent most of their careers in the Boston area with their two children, but fell in love with the people and pace of Vinalhaven. After 20 years as summer residents, they retired to the island community a few years ago. One chilly fall morning, David started to experience some troubling symptoms. […]
Craig Bachand has been riding motorcycles since he was in high school. It’s a passion, and one of the few activities that clears his mind and helps him relax. So on an early spring day in April, it was only natural that Craig was out for a ride in southwestern Maine. He was about 10 […]
On a dark and rainy evening in 2006, LifeFlight was placed on standby for a possible scene flight to Brooksville, Maine. Within minutes MedComm officially dispatched the call and the LifeFlight medical crew was off to the rural residential area established by the Brooksville Fire Department as the landing zone – a field usually catering […]
It all started with an innocent cut on the tip of her finger. What followed over the next several months is an incredible story that speaks to both the fragility of life and the tenacity of the human spirit. Sometime the last week of August, Rockland resident Cathy Lake cut the tip of her finger […]
It’s always a bit stressful to have a sick child. You’re never quite sure how serious it is, especially if your little one is too young to tell you what’s going on. When three-year-old Carter woke up in the middle of the night a few days after Christmas, he was coughing and very croupy. His […]
Snowmobiler Bonnie Sancomb was lying on her back in the snow about 45 feet from the trail. She had missed a corner, the same corner that snuck up on her the day before, but that wasn’t the worst of it. Her 500-pound sled had landed directly on top of her chest and abdomen and she […]
Massachusetts resident Bob Hamm and his wife, Donna, had joined their friends for a weekend at a cabin on Rangeley Lake. They were looking forward to discovering the woods and mountains of western Maine by snowmobile. On Saturday morning, they were headed down and out of the woods to find a spot for lunch when […]
Ben Hayes’ wife, Erin, fondly refers to him as an overachiever. He has two master’s degrees. He likes to be challenged and solve problems. He’s a workaholic and thoroughly enjoys his career in healthcare finance. He makes time to hang out with his 9-year-old daughter, Isabel. Because of a freak accident while goofing around with […]