Cutler News

Kathleen Finnegan, managing editor of the Maine based national magazine, Lighthouse Digest, was recently honored with the Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival's Founders Award for her 20 year involvement in lighthouse preservation.

Rodger and Linda VanTatenhove take life as it comes, and then take it a little farther.

Pam Britton, of Cutler, recently donated a hand painted wooden plaque to Little River Lighthouse, which will now go on permanent display at the restored keeper's house on the island where the lighthouse is located.

Little River Lighthouse in Cutler Maine honored caretakers Rodger and Linda Van Tatenhove with a hand-painted plaque of the lighthouse painted and designed by local artist, Pam Britton.

People from all over the North America attended this years 2nd International Lighthouse Challenge, 'Lights Across the Border,' that took place September 12 at West Quoddy Head and Lubec Channel lighthouses in Lubec, Mulholland and Head Harbour lighthouses on Campobello Island and Little River Lighthouse in Cutler.

TV and film star Foghorn J. Leghorn came out of retirement to make a rare personal appearance to Cutler, Maine's remote Little River Island Lighthouse for the 2nd Annual Lights Across the Border International Lighthouse Challenge and Maine Open Lighthouse Day that took place on Saturday, September 12.

On August 31 another part of lighthouse history came to a close with the passing of Welton Douglas Colbeth, 76, of Machiasport, Maine.

The public is invited and encouraged to participate in the 2nd annual 'Lights Across the Border' International Lighthouse Challenge that will be held on Saturday September 12.

"The poet has a calling to share the echoes, free the voice, jog the memory, and translate the silence to revitalize the moment." - from "A Calling" by Philip Rose MILBRIDGE, Maine - Leaning on his cane, wearing bright yellow suspenders that resemble tape measures, Donald Crane doesn't look much like a poet.