DIGGING CLAMS
DIGGING CLAMS as seagulls watch in Carrying Place Cove in Eastport on February 28 is Howard Calder. (Don Dunbar photo)
March 09, 2023
Front Page Stories
Towns use moratoriums to update regulations, plans
Downeast municipalities have seen a rise in the number of potential large-scale projects in aquaculture, mining, land development and commercial development.
Housing crisis solutions eyed by legislature
When Jennifer Sutherland decided to return to Maine from North Carolina as the laboratory manager at Down East Community Hospital (DECH) in Machias, she did not anticipate the difficulty of finding housing, either to rent or to buy.
Homelessness spurs St. Stephen to examine long-term solutions
Homelessness will not go away with the arrival of warm weather, St. Stephen's Mayor Allan MacEachern says. An "out-of-the-cold" warming centre opened on December 13 to prevent people without homes from freezing to death this winter...
Federal Marine acquired by stevedoring company
Federal Marine Terminals, which has operated the Eastport port terminal since 1981, is being acquired by a Canadian stevedoring company, but port operations are not expected to change with the new ownership. Logistec Stevedoring Inc. is acquiring the Canadian and U.S.
Dennysville ambulance service in critical need of volunteers
A public emergency meeting will be held on Thursday, March 16, at 6 p.m. at the Edmunds Consolidated School regarding the Dennysville Volunteer Ambulance Service, according to Wayne Seeley, captain of the ambulance service.
WOOD CHIPS
WOOD CHIPS are unloaded at the Estes Head cargo pier in Eastport, in only the second use of the port's bulk conveyor system. Approximately 32,000 metric tons are being shipped from Sheet Harbour, N.S., to the Woodland Pulp mill. See this issue for an article on