ED BASSETT
ED BASSETT helps teach youngsters about canoeing during the Passamaquoddy Canoe Cultural Day held on August 2 at Split Rock, Sipayik. (Edward French photo)
August 09, 2018
Front Page Stories
Tribe hosts canoe cultural day to help connect youth with bay
The first Passamaquoddy Canoe Cultural Day, held at Split Rock, Pleasant Point, on August 2, was hosted by the Sipayik Action Team to help connect the tribe's youth back to Passamaquoddy Bay and teach them how to canoe as their ancestors did and how to be safe while canoeing.
Right whale disentangled by Campobello team
The effort to save the endangered North Atlantic right whale, with a population believed to be fewer than 450, was bolstered this week by the work of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, which disentangled fishing gear from one of the whales, a 10-year-old male, off Grand Manan.
Message of peace shared by runners
To most, peace is an abstract and elusive concept. It isn't something concrete that one can hold in one's hands or pass to one another.
Fighting dementia by creating a "Haven"
Receiving a diagnosis of incurable dementia can feel like a death sentence. The degenerative diseases encompassed by the term slowly erode the brain of affected individuals, hindering their ability to think and ultimately to function.
Council backs subsidizing of ferry service
Resident frustrations at the continued lack of ferry service to Campobello Island boiled over during the July 30 meeting of the Campobello council, when a standing-room only crowd filled the meeting room to voice their concerns.
CELEBRATING
CELEBRATING with fireworks during the Grand Manan Rotary Festival is a crowd on Stanley Beach.Other celebrations in the area include Indian Day at Pleasant Point, the Perry bicentennial, the International Homecoming Festival parade in Calais and the Machias Wild Blueberry Festival. (Arlene Benham photo)