Lora Whelan

Way Downeast has a new star to add to its cap of roles in reality television. The DIY Network is featuring an off-grid home in Lubec as part of its series about homeowners rolling up their sleeves and learning skills large and small.

Part-time Lubec resident and former Maine House Representative Katherine Cassidy is back Downeast for a month or so to raise funds for work she is doing in Sierra Leone. "I can't wait to go back," she says of her work with the Home of Hope orphanage and Touch the Sky nonprofit in the African...

On a sunny mid-November morning, 9-year-old Webster Case put aside his crutches and walked a few steps without them for the second time that day. He turned and smiled, and then, like many a 9-year-old, grew bashful of the attention.

Just when the Eastport Deer Committee thought it was almost done for the year it found itself agreeing to take on more work. With the regular archery season that started on September 28 came some bad actors, usually younger and without the best of hunting skills.