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Lora Whelan

2014

Millennium offers to buy former Guilford mill building

Millennium Marine USA is seeking to purchase the city-owned, former Guilford mill building where the boatbuilding business is located. Owner Cory Guimond made an offer of $200,000 for the building at the February 4 Eastport City Council meeting.

2014

Coping with education changes

Educators, students and families are adjusting to the new normal as best they can, with students learning online and/or with packets of materials. Many teachers are still using their classrooms at least part-time to teach from in the new digital landscape.

2014

Transfer of piers being studied

Like the ugly Christmas sweater that nobody wants, the Eastport breakwater, following its partial collapse, is public infrastructure that gets regifted. The current owner, the City of Eastport, is trying to pass the breakwater and the fish pier off to the port authority...

2014

Craig’s set to buy seafood pie firm’s assets

The pending sale of the Trescott-based Cobscook Bay Company's intellectual and equipment assets to Craig's All Natural of New Hampshire for the sum of $10,000 was not the news the Washington County commissioners hoped to hear from Sunrise County Economic Council (SCEC) Executive Director...

2014

Women join hands to warm up family

Women from all around Washington County joined forces with an anonymous donor to help a local single mother of two in need of a new heating system. The effort was organized by Brenda Gay of Whiting.

2014

Ice storm cuts out heat and light in area

A wave of winter storms that started with a vengeance the weekend of December 21 and hasn't quit its ups and downs in three weeks is still presenting challenges for emergency management personnel. However, compared to the Ice Storm of '98, it's a whole different

2014

Ice storm cuts out heat and light in area

A wave of winter storms that started with a vengeance the weekend of December 21 and hasn't quit its ups and downs in three weeks is still presenting challenges for emergency management personnel. However, compared to the Ice Storm of '98, it's a whole different