Chris Conte is a national correspondent, reporting for all E.W. Scripps television stations across the country. He reports out of the Washington, D.C. bureau but is rarely in the office and usually on the road, reporting stories across the country.
On an exceptionally calm fall morning, Scott Dombrowski walked down an old dock toward a small dinghy. He looked out over the waters of Cape Porpoise, Maine, and commented on how still the water was for this time of year.
There are 779 lighthouses left standing in the U.S. Many are being auctioned off by the U.S. General Services Administration. Dombrowski, though, is one of this country's last resident lighthouse keepers. Like generations before him, he and his wife raised their family on Goat Island. But this lighthouse, which has guided so many to safety over the years, is now in need of its own kind of saving. A year ago, an underwater cable that runs power to the island broke. Officials believe it will cost around $400,000 dollars to repair the line. Not repairing it leaves Goat Island with no source of electricity.
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