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2018

Steps to combat scams are outlined

On behalf of Eastport's Age Friendly Action Committee, committee chair Mary Repole, Eastport Police Chief Mike Donahe and Eastport City Manager Elaine Abbott presented a program at Shead High School on July 18 designed to alert people about scams and frauds and to suggest methods to protect...

2018

Shead graduate eyes rowboat diplomacy in Korea

A 1989 Shead High School graduate is hoping that his trip around the Korean Peninsula in a rowboat built at the Boat School in Eastport can help focus attention on resolving the current standoff between North and South Korea. Fifteen years ago, former Eastporter Jonathan Cowles...

2018

New grocery tariff may impact border communities’ relations

The post-colonial community of the St. Croix Valley has always been an international one; it is a relationship long embodied by Calais and St. Stephen in particular. The twin communities grew up together, residents were born on either side depending on the availability of medical facilities...

2018

Lack of ferry hits economy on Campobello

The lack of the seasonal ferry service between Deer Island and Campobello so far this year is having a significant impact on the number of visitors to Campobello and also on its residents, as the ferry had eliminated the need to cross the border to reach the Canadian island.

2018

Coast Guard’s plan for housing in Perry generates concerns

A proposal to establish housing for Coast Guard personnel stationed in Eastport on property in Perry generated some concerns at the July 11 meeting of the Perry Planning Board.

2018

BOATS PASSING IN THE NIGHT off Treat’s Island in Cobscook Bay. (Chessie Crowe photo)

BOATS PASSING IN THE NIGHT

BOATS PASSING IN THE NIGHT off Treat’s Island in Cobscook Bay. (Chessie Crowe photo)

2018

THE RUNNING OF THE BOLS. The Bold Coast Sea & Sky Festival in Machias provided plenty of opportunity for youth to test their skill and speed at Middle River Park. A bol is a spinning basket

THE RUNNING OF THE BOLS

THE RUNNING OF THE BOLS. The Bold Coast Sea & Sky Festival in Machias provided plenty of opportunity for youth to test their skill and speed at Middle River Park. A bol is a spinning basket kite which is pulled downhill in a race to the finish line. (RJ Heller