KAT GLOVER
KAT GLOVER (center) of Children's Stage Adventures worked with Edmunds Consolidated School students for the production of "Shakespeare's Midsummer Dream" on March 2. (Emily Guirl photo)
March 08, 2012
Front Page Stories
Veteran remembers concentration camp ordeal
A 90-year-old Royal Air Force veteran who lives in St. Andrews will be a special guest on Sunday, April 1, for a screening of the documentary, Lost Airmen of Buchenwald, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the W.C. O'Neill Arena theatre.
Traditional skills adapted for tidal project
Sections of the first commercial tidal turbine in the U.S. are now being assembled in Eastport, with "water-breaking," instead of a ground-breaking, expected within about a week in the waters of Cobscook Bay.
Council favors cut in scallop season
Maine’s Scallop Advisory Council (SAC), at a meeting on March 7 in Bangor, took initial votes to significantly reduce both the length of the scallop season and the daily catch limit, as the members wrestled with how to reopen the 10 conservation areas that have been closed to scallop fishing in...
Six rockweed plans for bay submitted
Six companies or individuals who submitted plans last year to the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) to harvest rockweed in Cobscook Bay again have submitted plans for 2012.
DHHS to schedule hearing on closure of Atlantic Rehab
The residents of Calais and the greater Washington County area will be able to voice their concerns over the possible closure of Atlantic Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Calais.
Tree growth taps into town tax questions
Are Maine's laws that provide a special real estate tax category for tree growth a necessary component that provides jobs, taxable income and economic prosperity? Or are they a "beggar-thy-neighbor" loophole that allows a few landowners to deflect their share of property tax to others?
Municipal loan funds aid with business growth, job creation
With seven years under her belt of providing a warm and inviting place to eat the kind of home-style food that makes for happy customers, Karen Scribner, owner of Karen's Main Street Diner in downtown Calais, is ready to expand her offerings to include a pub.
Future being laid for fiber-optic line network in county
Danny Sullivan is on a mission.
Timber Biofuel snags chip deal despite eleventh-hour appeal
The ongoing saga of what company may ship wood chips through the Port of Eastport took more twists and turns at the 11th hour, as the port authority board seemed at first willing to dance with Great Northern Timber, based in Halifax, then dropped that partner in favor of a new suitor, Timber...
Port on brink of wood chip shipment deal
The Eastport Port Authority has reached a tentative agreement with Timber Biofuel Venture for the company to ship wood chips through the Port of Eastport.
THE NEARLY 100
THE NEARLY 100-FOOT-LONG BASE SUPPORT FRAME for Ocean Renewable Power Company's first grid-connected, commercial TidGen Power System is being assembled by Perry Marine & Construction at its site next to The Boat School in Eastport. (Edward French photo)