2008
Six boats are sunk or beached in area during high winds
The pre-Christmas storm was unkind to boat owners in Lubec and Campobello, with six boats either sinking, coming ashore onto rocks or dragging their moorings.
Chessie Johnson
2008
Search for local man continues on land, water
Kris Fergerson, a 27-year-old single father from Lubec, has been missing since Tuesday, December 2. Reportedly, Fergerson was wrinkling, harvesting periwinkles for sale, near the Lubec Channel Lighthouse, known as the Sparkplug, with another wrinkler, Dennis Knox, 47, when he failed to return.
2008
Voters decisively reject school plan for central county
On Tuesday, December 9, residents of the 12 towns in the proposed Central Washington County School System overwhelmingly voted to reject an alternative organizational structure (AOS) that was proposed in order to comply with the state's school consolidation law.
2008
Communities eye school regionalization
Lubec residents will meet twice on the night of Tuesday, December 2, to discuss whether to join a regional school administrative unit, as required by the state school consolidation law, and to consider whether to close Lubec High School and tuition students to another facility.
2008
Buckley resigns as superintendent of Lubec schools
MSAD 19 Superintendent Michael Buckley resigned effective immediately in an executive session during the MSAD 19 Board of Directors meeting on Thursday, October 30. Officials will say only that Buckley resigned for "personal reasons" and provide no further details.
2008
Fewer visit Quoddy region
"I might as well have been closed this summer," says Jack Willson of South Bay Campground in Lubec. "Our summer has been off 60% from last year, and I can't even pay expenses. I'm planning to sell." Willson says each summer has become worse,
2008
Effort heats up to provide aid for cold weather
The Washington County Food & Fuel Assistance Alliance held its third meeting at the Three Angels Seventh Day Adventist Church in Whiting on September 18.