Last year, Maine legalized same-sex marriage by popular vote. It's an industry that vendors are still growing into and, for a same-sex couple, the template can seem outdated. Think: behemoth bridal magazines, the cupid shuffle, and father's delivering their daughters to the betrothed. One couple discuss how they're marrying some traditional elements with their own wedding day vision. 

Something Old, Something New

Camp Quixote: More Than Just a Place to Call Home

As Heroin Booms, Recovery Clinics Struggle To Keep Up

Petersburg Alaska Mental Health Services is wrapping up its seven week pedometer challenge. 168 people signed up for the project which aims to get people walking. But for one of its participants, it isn’t about the competition. It’s about the road that lies ahead. 

The Long Walk Home

As commercial fishing fleets head out on the water in Southeast Alaska this summer, some could run into problems with an expanding whale population. Whales can destroy nets and even become entangled in them. But a device being used regionally aims to prevent that. Marine mammal specialists are trying to determine its effectiveness and troubleshoot problems.

The Alaska Marine Advisory Tracks The Effectiveness Of Whale Pingers

Kids hit the streets of Petersburg recently to showcase their music skills and raise money for Bluegrass Camp. It’s a program that runs throughout the United States, taught by a group of traveling folk musicians.

Bluegrass Camp for Kids Goes Busking

It’s peak season for farmer’s markets across the country right now. Food is typically grown in a rural setting. But one Southeast Alaskan couple is taking that to the extreme. They live in a completely off-the-grid location in a place without cell phone coverage or roads, and they have to be inventive to get the produce to market.

Farming off the grid

On a remote corner of the Tongass National Forest, a six-year-long stream restoration project is wrapping up. The cost: an estimated $1.2 million, funded largely from grants obtained by the Nature Conservancy. The project is intended to restore salmon streams damaged over 40 years ago on Kuiu Island.

Stream restoration on Kuiu Island nears completion

Southeast residents will be able to buy locally milled lumber in the future—as small scale timber sales begin on Mitkof Island. The trees are mostly from young growth stands, comprised of what some would call “trashwood.”

Southeast "Trashwood" Finds New Markets

Elizabeth Jenkins is an independent multimedia and radio producer living in the Pacific Northwest. 

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