2010
MEN AT WORK
MEN AT WORK prepare the Simone & Rachel and the Miss Angie II for the opening of urchin season on Monday, October 4, at sunrise. (Chessie Crowe photo)
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2010
BREAKING OUT
BREAKING OUT between two Pirate Bed Race teams is a water balloon fight. The Boat School team "Foggy Bottom" (left) eventually went on to win the race, held as part of the Eastport Pirate Festival. (Don Dunbar photo)
2010
Tribe asserts right to fish in federal waters
A dispute over Native rights to fish in federal waters is heating up, with the Passamaquoddy Tribe asserting that while tribal members will follow federal fishery conservation laws, they do not need federal licenses.
2010
Cruise ship firm cancels Eastport, Bar Harbor visits
The cruise ship Spirit of Oceanus that was scheduled to stop in Eastport for the afternoon and evening of September 23 will not be visiting after all.
2010
Two festivals sport crowd-pleasing fun
A brush with Hurricane Earl did not put a damper on the 24th annual Eastport Salmon Festival held on Labor Day weekend, September 3, 4 and 5.
2010
Cleaves, Soctomah win tribal elections
Reuben "Clayton" Cleaves was elected the new Passamaquoddy governor at Sipayik, and Madonna Soctomah was chosen as tribal representative in the state legislature, during tribal elections held on September 7 and 8. Cleaves received 217 votes for governor, besting Hilda Lewis, who received 123 votes.
2010
Two festivals sport crowd-pleasing fun
By oft-trod land and roiling sea, bodiced wenches and cutlassed buccaneers stormed into Lubec from Eastport on Sunday, September 5, as a prelude to the Eastport Pirate Festival the following weekend of September 10B12. A small contingent of rumrunner types waving Jolly Rogers may even have got dropped off from