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The U.S. Navy will not be sending a vessel to Eastport this year during Old Home Week. Captain J.E. Campbell, director of public affairs and outreach, gave U.S. Senator Susan Collins the news in mid-April.

A Cooke Aquaculture subsidiary will pay $500,000, one of the largest and most significant penalties ever levied in Canada under the Fisheries Act, for using an illegal pesticide at salmon farms that led to lobster deaths around Deer Island and Grand Manan.

Campobello Mayor Stephen Smart doesn't mince words. Speaking at the monthly council meeting on April 29, he observed, "We're a little different than anybody else.

The AOS #77 school board will file suit against Calais if the city does not agree by May 23 to honor its 37% share of the remaining years of AOS Superintendent Jim Underwood's contract. The decision was made at the board's May 9 meeting.

The first shipment of wood chips through the port of Eastport is expected to occur next month, as a contract was expected to be signed this week for exporting the wood biomass to Nova Scotia.