While Lubec residents earlier this month narrowly adopted a local aquaculture ordinance in response to two salmon farm lease renewal requests, whether the ordinance will be legally binding and whether ...

LITTLE MERMAIDS march in the parade with cardboard fish they made during the Eastport Mermaid Festival on August 2. See this ...

ONE OF THE 25-FOOT MECHANICAL SHARKS used in the film Jaws is shown on a sea sled that was towed by Skip Harris of Eastport ...

Plans for a new health center in Eastport are still moving forward, although they have been delayed, in part because of ...

During a four-hour town meeting on August 6 that drew 233 voters, Lubec residents decisively turned down a proposed land use ...

Most Washington County residents likely consider the county budget as a fiscal matter under the control of the county commissioners. And until LD 2080, An Act to Better Coordinate and Reduce the Cost ...

Roosevelt Campobello International Park (RCIP) is facing a critical funding shortage as a result of an unresolved delay in part of the annual payment from the U.S. National Park Service (NPS).

Over 5,000 patients of a number of Washington County healthcare organizations have had personal information possibly compromised by a data breach that occurred at CaptureRx in February. The HIPAA ...

Washington County voters reflected the statewide trend of electing Republican candidates to office, by even wider margins than the state percentages, and a new sheriff will be riding into the county, ...

Washington County town officials, business leaders and employees at the Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF) joined county legislators in Augusta on February 15 to testify against a proposal by the ...

American Hope Charities (AHC), a Christian faith-based, nonprofit corporation from California, has its eye on the former Calais Regional Hospital as a temporary location to operate a 12-month ...

An aggressive invader has come to Maine and hardly anybody noticed. Not, at least, until the occupation began and the enemy's infiltration was well along. In the beginning, the European green crab was ...