In Portland, the Maine Time Dollar Network allows community members to perform various services for each other that is bringing the community closer together. Stephanie Congdon explores how this network works and discusses how services are traded.

Salt informs readers that this View From Pier Road will be the last time this column is published.

London Chretien discusses the topic of community supported agriculture and how certain individuals practice this type of alternative farming in Maine.

Table of contents for December 1997 Salt Magazine.

Unlike other Catholic religious orders in Maine, the Sister of the Precious Blood are a cloistered group. Mary Pope explores the daily lives of the sisters whose whole world exists within the Monastery of the Precious Blood in Portland.

Prior to the release of The Salt Book, Pamela Wood speaks to readers about the contents of the book and the release parties.

As a native son of Kennebunk, Bertram Hanscom has many stories about the town. Kim Lovejoy visits with Bertram and his wife, Helen, to learn about their pastimes in Kennebunk.

Thomas Bradbury recounts the history of Pinkham Hall and how it is fitting that a group like Salt would find a home there.

Forward to by Robert Coles to Maine: A Peopled Landscape.

Table of contents for the Salt 2007-2008 Magazine.

Located in downtown Biddeford, the Maine Energy Recovery Company destroys waste with its incinerators. Samuel Allison investigates how MERC impacts the communities that surrounds it, and what has been done against MERC.

Margot Downs highlights the stories and activities of serveral community bands, speaking with band members and the community.