Seadogs at the Sportsman's Grill
Originally published in The Maine Times on April 15, 1994 You will find two of the founding members of Portland’s…
Welcome!
❝A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.❞
— Thomas Mann
Salût! I’m Jack — an ink-stained wretch living and working on a small island in Penobscot Bay. I write essays, articles, stories, and feuilletons to better understand the world and to make meaning as a last-ditch effort against entropy.
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2026-03-04 | Two Fishers Meet in the Winter Woods
By Jack Beaudoin Fishers (Pekania pennanti) have a reputation as the northern forests’ ultimate misanthropes. These mesocarnivores are so territorial…
2026-01-15 | A Flight Year for Winter Finches
By Jack Beaudoin On a fine gray afternoon in late October, I came across an impressive cone midden beneath a…
2025-11-20 | Stonington weighs third party requests
Select board asks: “When does it stop?” by Jack Beaudoin STONINGTON—The specter of budget busting third-party requests reared its head…
2025-11-15 | Deer Isle third-party requests are in the crosshairs
By Jack Beaudoin DEER ISLE—Select board members expressed support for a new policy proposal, one they hope will slow annual…
2025-11-13 | Concerns resurface over behavioral problems in Deer Isle-Stonington schools
By JACK BEAUDOIN THE ISLAND—On a night when the Deer Isle-Stonington CSD 13 School Board began a procedural review of…
2025-11-10 | Stonington housing project breaks ground
STONINGTON—A 12-unit affordable housing project planned for Cemetery Road has satisfied all conditions required by the town, broken ground and…
