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2012

Eastport triplets turn one year old

It's not every day that a family gets to celebrate the first year birthday of their triplets. At the Eastport home of Anthony and Melissa Newcomb on Sunday, April 1, the one-year anniversary of the birth of their three sons was marked by two birthday parties.

2012

Testimony reveals nursing home bed removal hardships

Well over 100 people attended the April 5 Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) reconsideration hearing of the certificate of need (CON) granted to First Atlantic Healthcare for the removal of 52 nursing home beds from the Calais-based Atlantic Rehabilitation and Nursing Home to...

2012

ELVER FYKE NETS can now be spotted in many Downeast rivers, including the Pennamaquan River in Pembroke. Fishermen have been receiving about $1,800 a pound for the glass eels. (Edward French

ELVER FYKE NETS

ELVER FYKE NETS can now be spotted in many Downeast rivers, including the Pennamaquan River in Pembroke. Fishermen have been receiving about $1,800 a pound for the glass eels. (Edward French photo)

2012

"DANCE, DANCE, DANCE" was one of the pieces sung and performed by the concert chorus during the Washington County Music Festival on March 31 at Woodland High School. Sixteen county schools w

"DANCE, DANCE, DANCE"

"DANCE, DANCE, DANCE" was one of the pieces sung and performed by the concert chorus during the Washington County Music Festival on March 31 at Woodland High School. Sixteen county schools were represented at the festival. (Edward French photo)

2012

THE BIG LIFT. A 500-ton crane lifts onto a barge at Deep Cove in Eastport the 96-000-pound base support frame for Ocean Renewable Power Company's first grid-connected, commercial TidGen Powe

THE BIG LIFT

THE BIG LIFT. A 500-ton crane lifts onto a barge at Deep Cove in Eastport the 96-000-pound base support frame for Ocean Renewable Power Company's first grid-connected, commercial TidGen Power System. The frame was moved onto the barge by Perry Marine & Construction workers

2012

SPRING HAS SPRUNG! The warm weather the week of March 19 brought many outside to enjoy the sunshine, including Christian McPhail, 8, and Ella Perkins, 5, who try out their scooters on an Eas

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

SPRING HAS SPRUNG! The warm weather the week of March 19 brought many outside to enjoy the sunshine, including Christian McPhail, 8, and Ella Perkins, 5, who try out their scooters on an Eastport street, as Jaylen Follis, 2, tries to keep up. (Edward French photo)

2012

Veteran remembers concentration camp ordeal

A 90-year-old Royal Air Force veteran who lives in St. Andrews will be a special guest on Sunday, April 1, for a screening of the documentary, Lost Airmen of Buchenwald, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the W.C. O'Neill Arena theatre.