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Cradled between "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and other patriotic songs played by the Maine Army National Guard band on the deck of the Eastport Port Authority office and the non-stop booming, brilliant flashes of the Eastport Fourth of July's fantastic fireworks display over the Navy...

The community of Campobello is mourning the loss of Joseph Howlett, the lobsterman with a passion for rescuing whales, who died in a freak entanglement accident on July 10 about 20 miles off the coast of New Brunswick in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The process took nearly five years, but Lubec's former Columbian Packing Company brownfield project is reaching the end. About 50 people gathered on June 16 to celebrate the persistent work required to obtain financing and arrange for the required demolition.