2017
Disputes over elver fishery trigger suits by tribal fishermen
Passamaquoddy tribal members have filed two lawsuits over the elver fishery, stemming from disputes over late filings of landing reports from last year.
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2017
Decision favoring landowners in rockweed case to be appealed
After their March 2 hearing in Washington County Superior Court, the opposing parties of the Ross v. Acadian Seaplants lawsuit shook hands and left Machias, expecting to wait a month or more for the verdict.
2017
ILLUMINATING NERIDA, R
ILLUMINATING NERIDA, Richard Klyver’s bronze mermaid on the Eastport seawall, are ice sculptures made by Drew Proctor that are lit by candlelight. (Robin Farrin photo)
2017
SUGARING OFF
SUGARING OFF — A SWEET RITE OF SPRING. With steam billowing out from the boiling down of the sap, Howard Duvall stands outside the sugarhouse at Maple Lane Sugary in Robbinston. The sugarhouse boast a new, more-efficient evaporator this year. The Duvalls have 330 buckets on their trees and hope to
2017
Resources to aid recovering addicts offered
Carmen Feeney‑Alley of Jonesport knows what it's like to love someone struggling with addiction. Her son Jamie, a veteran of the war in Iraq, started using heroin after becoming addicted to painkillers prescribed for an injury.
2017
Quoddy quarry rock cut for Titanic headstones
A nearly 20-year search for the source of the black granite headstones that mark the graves in a Halifax cemetery of 149 victims of the sinking of the Titanic has led a retired geology professor, with the help of a local prospector, to find the quarry for the rock just outside St. Andrews.
2017
Memorial chair sails to island and back
It sounds like a good Irish lark: a chair placed near Market Square in Saint John in memory of a Northern Ireland native found its way into the Bay of Fundy, rode the winter currents to Grand Manan, and is now back where it started and only a little the worse for wear...