FLYING AWAY
FLYING AWAY on January 28 with a pickerel that was left on the Boyden's Lake ice by fishermen is a bald eagle. (Don Dunbar photo))
February 09, 2012
Front Page Stories
Couples share secrets of marriage
Valentine's Day is all about loving and being loved, so three couples in the Quoddy area were asked how they found their life partners and what makes their marriages work.
Tribe asserts rights to fish in offshore, near-shore waters
The Passamaquoddy Tribe is asserting its fishing rights in both near-shore and offshore waters, from Point Lepreau to Cape Ann, Mass., as it develops a new fisheries management plan that may place the tribe at odds with the state of Maine and the U.S. and Canadian governments.
Local schools hit hard by cuts in subsidy
A sudden reversal of fortunes for area school districts hit school and municipal officials late last week, as preliminary state subsidy figures that had previously indicated districts would receive more funding now show almost all of them will lose funding.
Greenhouse project growing more than year-round harvest
On a late January day in Eastport two residents were sitting in their lawn chairs, in shorts, with toes bared and digging into warm sand.
Off-island sale of license riles Grand Manan
The Grand Manan Fishermen's Association (GMFA) is asking the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to place an immediate freeze on all lobster license transfers to nonresidents of the island after a lobster license was sold outside Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) #38 to a company from the...
Consortium begins dialogue to tackle prescription abuse
Calling the misuse of prescription pain medication "an epidemic across the country," Maine Medical Association Executive Vice President Gordon Smith introduced a roster of speakers prepared to address the problem.
THRILL
THRILL-SEEKING SLEDDERS Jude and Veda Zanoni (riding up front) and Winnie French (in back) took to the slopes at Cobscook Bay State Park during the Winter Family Fun Day on January 28.(Chessie Crowe Gartmayer photo)