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2014

WATCH OUT! HERE WE COME! Racing against time and each other are Eastport Pirate Festival bed race participants. The races were won by the "Friendly Pirates" of The New Friendly Restaurant. S

WATCH OUT

WATCH OUT! HERE WE COME! Racing against time and each other are Eastport Pirate Festival bed race participants. The races were won by the "Friendly Pirates" of The New Friendly Restaurant. See this issue for more photos and coverage of the Pirate Festival. (Don Dunbar photo) Subscribe to

2014

Emotions run high during Pembroke tidal power meeting

Emotions ran high at the Pembroke town office on Friday, August 8, when over 70 residents and interested parties met with two representatives of Halcyon Tidal Power and the subsidiary Pennamaquan Tidal Power LLC and two representatives of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

2014

Films draw on local culture and history

On August 21 and 22 parts of Lubec's Water Street were returned to 1870, with characters walking the street and filling local restaurants while wearing period garb.

2014

Films draw on local culture and history

A budding filmmaker with a big story to tell visited Grand Manan during the first week of September to learn about the local lobster industry and promote his project. Brad Rivers, a film school graduate from Waterloo, Ontario, is working on a feature‑length documentary titled Lobsterland and is looking

2014

Two killed in crash of medevac flight

Grand Mananers were left reeling in the wake of another tragedy on Saturday, August 16, when a Piper PA31 on a medevac flight crashed short of the runway around 5 a.m. in fog. Pilot Klaus Sonnenberg, president of Atlantic Charters, was killed.

2014

Two festivals cook up crowd-pleasing fun

The 28th annual Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31, and Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce President Meg Keay says, "It will be a wonderful way to end the summer."

2014

Two festivals cook up crowd-pleasing fun

The ninth annual Eastport Pirate Festival will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 5, 6 and 7, and will feature food, fun and lots of family-friendly entertainment. "It's going to be real exciting," promises Chris Brown, Eastport Pirate Festival co-chair. "We're