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 ...

The Village of Grand Manan announced on August 12 that it was activating Level 1 of its Emergency Measures Plan in response to the dry conditions and fire risk. Level 1 is a precautionary measure that ...

Electricity is flowing through the lines from 30 giant wind turbines surrounding Columbia, and soon the promised money from project operation will flow as well to local governments in Washington ...

AT THE MACHIAS WILD BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL on August 16 during the blueberry pie eating contest, Kayli Favuzzi (far left), 7, of ...

THE TRADITIONAL CEREMONIAL DANCES drew a large crowd during Passamaquoddy Days at Sipayik. Shown are tribal members ...

Pirates will once again roam the streets when the Eastport Pirate Festival debuts its 20th edition on the first weekend in September, bringing with it music, children's games, a formal ball and ...

Salmon and seafood take center stage on Eastport dinner plates as a special culinary festival celebrates the bounty of the ocean off the Downeast coast on Labor Day weekend.

Calais Mayor Marcia Rogers says that she and her friends will continue to cross the St. Croix River to St. Stephen – to eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Tim Horton's, Burger King or Pizza Delight, if ...

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

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 ...

Plans for a new health center in Eastport are still moving forward, although they have been delayed, in part because of funding issues caused by federal Medicaid cuts.

As "Taps" played at the Balsam Valley Chapel in Jonesboro on February 11 to honor the four chaplains, Rodney Sienkiewicz saluted. His father Henry had been a civilian contractor aboard the USAT ...