Portland Press Herald: A large-scale boat yard could bring new life to a largely vacant part of Portland’s waterfront and put the city on the map as a place to repair pleasure and commercial boats, says the businessman who...

Stamford Advocate: Facing a defiant developer, the city is preparing to issue Building and Land Technology a cease-and-desist order for failing to comply with the Zoning Board‘s demand to replace a boatyard in the South End. “It’s...

  It’s hard to believe that the Jones River in Kingston, Massachusetts, was once a robust shipbuilding center that produced hundreds of wooden sailing vessels—whalers, traders, fishing boats—from the early 1700s to the mid-1800s. The river, which flows from...