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Edward French

2023

Friends mourn loss of St. Ann's as church building is torn down

St. Ann's, the historic Catholic church that was built nearly 100 years ago to serve the Passamaquoddy tribal members of Sipayik, was torn down this week, with demolition beginning on September 20.

2023

Jonesboro man faces charges for threatening interracial couple

A Jonesboro man is facing both a state civil rights complaint and a criminal threatening charge for allegedly threatening an interracial couple and their children. More than three months after receiving information about a possible hate crime in Jonesboro...

2023

City preparing for commissioning of new U.S. Navy ship

The Eastport Port Authority is preparing for the commissioning ceremony for a new U.S. Navy ship at the Eastport breakwater on Saturday, September 30. The Independence variant littoral combat ship USS Augusta will join the active fleet with the commissioning ceremony...

2023

Salmon escape raises concerns about seals, risk to wild fish

The recent escape of 50,000 juvenile salmon from a fish farm off Cutler has again raised concerns about the risks posed to wild Atlantic salmon by net-pen aquaculture.

2023

Death of kayaker prompts questions

An Augusta man died after his kayak overturned sometime after he left early on the morning of Friday, August 4, from Lubec, headed the approximately seven miles across open ocean to Grand Manan Island. His overturned kayak was spotted two days later.

2023

Television show features tribe's efforts to restore language

The public television series Native America continues this fall with an episode that features the Passamaquoddy Tribe's efforts to restore tribal songs and language and also to reclaim some of its lands.

2023

First commercial operation of heat-treating system conducted

The first commercial-scale operation of a heat-treating system for wood chips for overseas shipment occurred at the Port of Eastport on July 27 and 28. The phytosanitation of 40 tons of southern yellow pine chips was conducted by Phyto-Charter Inc.