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Edward French

2012

Calais and Eastport weighing options to withdraw from AOS

The move by the Calais City Council and school board to see if the city's residents want to withdraw from AOS 77 has prompted the Eastport school board also to begin the process for withdrawing from the regional school district.

2012

Coast Guard conducts joint rescue drills in bay

The Canadian and U.S. Coast Guard participated in two days of joint search and rescue exercises this week in the Passamaquoddy Bay area, with simulated rescues of eight missing kayakers and of seven people in a boat that had swamped.

2012

Auditor relays how city dug itself out from financial hole

“I have a high degree of confidence that fraud has not taken place in the city office,” stated Doug Hollingsworth, the auditor for the City of Eastport, during a city council workshop on September 6.

2012

Calais considering steps to leave AOS

The Calais School Committee has asked the superintendent of AOS #77, James Underwood, to work with the Maine School Management Association to estimate the cost to Calais if the city withdraws from the AOS and sets up its own school district.

2012

Joint council votes to disburse $10.2 million to tribal members

Passamaquoddy tribal members each received $2,891 on July 20 from a multi-million settlement from the U.S. government, after the Joint Tribal Council voted 10 to 3 at a July 16 meeting to disburse the funds to all tribal members on the Pleasant Point and Indian Township census rolls.

2012

Speakers decry cuts at DFO’s biological station

Speakers at a July 18 public forum on the impact of significant federal cuts at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' (DFO) St. Andrews Biological Station (SABS) described the station as a "poster child" for what is happening across the country. More than 150 people attended the forum...

2012

Passage rights by U.S. boats again disputed

Free passage into Canadian waters around Passamaquoddy Bay appears to have ended, as U.S. boaters recently have been stopped by Canadian officials while they have been in Canadian waters and told they must obtain clearance, even if they do not intend to land in Canada.