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Edward French

2017

UT parents and administrators spar at hearing

A legislative hearing to provide school choice for students living in the unorganized territories (UT) pitched state administrators against local parents over who is looking out for the best interests of their children.

2017

Disputes over elver fishery trigger suits by tribal fishermen

Passamaquoddy tribal members have filed two lawsuits over the elver fishery, stemming from disputes over late filings of landing reports from last year.

2017

Quoddy quarry rock cut for Titanic headstones

A nearly 20-year search for the source of the black granite headstones that mark the graves in a Halifax cemetery of 149 victims of the sinking of the Titanic has led a retired geology professor, with the help of a local prospector, to find the quarry for the rock just outside St. Andrews.

2017

Syrian family tells of journey fleeing Aleppo

A father and mother and their two young children who lived just outside Aleppo, named Syria's Stalingrad... Ammar Saied says that the whole world watched on their televisions the bombing of Aleppo...

2017

Gas exposure at mill triggers CRH emergency response

A total of 16 contractors and two Woodland Pulp employees were exposed to chlorine dioxide gas during a planned maintenance outage at the mill at about 10 a.m. on February 16. Calais Regional Hospital emergency staff treated 14 of the victims.

2017

County residents rally to oppose prison closure

Washington County town officials, business leaders and employees at the Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF) joined county legislators in Augusta on February 15 to testify against a proposal by the LePage administration to close the Machiasport prison, which employs 50 people and houses up to...

2017

Arctic mining trucks land at port terminal

Four heavy-duty tractors and 16 tandem side-dump trailers are being trucked from as far away as Idaho into the Port of Eastport for shipment to a new mining operation in the Arctic.