2013
FLOATING
FLOATING on quiet waters in Perry is a red-throated loon. (Don Dunbar photo)
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2013
PREPARING
PREPARING an elver fyke net for a night of fishing on the St. Croix River are Passamaquoddy tribal members Kyle Moore and his father, Fred Moore III, who is coordinator of the tribe's Fisheries Advisory Committee. (Edward French photo)
2013
Healthcare effort brings community, students together
On the morning of March 19, when the region was anticipating heavy snowfall, two different student groups were focusing on the same field: healthcare.
2013
Tribe and state still at odds over cap on elver licenses
The debate over the number of elver fishing licenses being issued by the Passamaquoddy Tribe this year may appear to be resolved in the state legislature, which is moving ahead with a plan for 200 tribal licenses, but the Passamaquoddy Joint Tribal Council says the state cannot cap the number...
2013
Millennium to build boats in former mill
Cory Guimond of Millennium Marine of Escuminac, N.B., will be setting up a boat-manufacturing facility in Eastport, beginning operations this year and eventually hiring approximately 50 people. The news of the awarding of a $1.4 million U.S.
2013
Future of Canaport, Downeast LNG in question
What a difference a few years can make. Five years ago, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) debate was raging Downeast, as three proposals for Passamaquoddy Bay were moving forward, along with the Canaport LNG development in Saint John.
2013
Public controversy over rockweed bill voiced in Augusta
Thirty-three individuals spoke at the March 20 hearing by the legislature's Marine Resources Committee on a bill that would require the development of a statewide approach to seaweed management and would scrap the existing law creating the Cobscook Bay Rockweed Management Area that was...