PROCEEDING
PROCEEDING to the dance field during the Grand March are Indian Day participants at Sipayik. (Don Dunbar photo)
August 21, 2014
Front Page Stories
Emotions run high during Pembroke tidal power meeting
Emotions ran high at the Pembroke town office on Friday, August 8, when over 70 residents and interested parties met with two representatives of Halcyon Tidal Power and the subsidiary Pennamaquan Tidal Power LLC and two representatives of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Films draw on local culture and history
On August 21 and 22 parts of Lubec's Water Street were returned to 1870, with characters walking the street and filling local restaurants while wearing period garb.
Films draw on local culture and history
A budding filmmaker with a big story to tell visited Grand Manan during the first week of September to learn about the local lobster industry and promote his project. Brad Rivers, a film school graduate from Waterloo, Ontario, is working on a feature‑length documentary titled Lobsterland and is looking
Two killed in crash of medevac flight
Grand Mananers were left reeling in the wake of another tragedy on Saturday, August 16, when a Piper PA31 on a medevac flight crashed short of the runway around 5 a.m. in fog. Pilot Klaus Sonnenberg, president of Atlantic Charters, was killed.
Two festivals cook up crowd-pleasing fun
The 28th annual Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31, and Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce President Meg Keay says, "It will be a wonderful way to end the summer."
Two festivals cook up crowd-pleasing fun
The ninth annual Eastport Pirate Festival will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 5, 6 and 7, and will feature food, fun and lots of family-friendly entertainment.
"It's going to be real exciting," promises Chris Brown, Eastport Pirate Festival co-chair. "We're
Renewable energy, efficiency demonstrated in new buildings
Three new buildings in Washington County are providing examples of energy efficiencies and heating systems that use everything from cordwood to geothermal heat to solar gain.
Two Cabinet members visit Pleasant Point
Two of President Obama's Cabinet secretaries visited Pleasant Point on August 18 as part of a new initiative to reform the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and improve the quality of education received by Native students in the U.S.
Boat School board expands, awaits lawsuit judgment
Within a mere 75 minutes the Friends of the Boat School had garnered seven new board members, doubling the size of the board and bringing in the "fresh blood and new ideas" that long-time board member Dean Pike said was needed.
STAYING COOL
STAYING COOL and getting wet for a good cause on a hot August day are personnel from Federal Marine Terminals, Northeastern Longshoremen's Association and the City of Eastport who responded to the Ice Bucket Challenge on August 20 by the Eastport Port Authority staff, who also participated. The