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2008

Prison sweat lodge ceremony may help end addiction cycle

A traditional spiritual ceremony that may help Native prisoners both during their time of incarceration and when they return to their communities was held for the first time at the Maine State Prison this fall.

2008

New dictionary helps to save Passamaquoddy oral tradition

"For me, this is a dictionary that you can read like a book," said Robert Leavitt, who co-authored with David Francis A Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary that was launched on December 8 at Sipayik.

2008

Search for local man continues on land, water

Kris Fergerson, a 27-year-old single father from Lubec, has been missing since Tuesday, December 2. Reportedly, Fergerson was wrinkling, harvesting periwinkles for sale, near the Lubec Channel Lighthouse, known as the Sparkplug, with another wrinkler, Dennis Knox, 47, when he failed to return.

2008

HO, HO, HO. Santa knows who's been naughty or nice this year, as he rewards Lauren Munson, 3, with an orange during the Santa Claus parade in Lubec on December 7. Santa is assisted by one of

HO, HO, HO

HO, HO, HO. Santa knows who's been naughty or nice this year, as he rewards Lauren Munson, 3, with an orange during the Santa Claus parade in Lubec on December 7. Santa is assisted by one of his elves, Tabitha Munson. (Chessie Johnson photo)

2008

Council adopts 70-day, split scallop season

Scallop fishermen in the Cobscook Bay area are relieved that the cut in the number of days they can fish this season will not be as drastic as had been proposed.

2008

Communities eye school regionalization

Lubec residents will meet twice on the night of Tuesday, December 2, to discuss whether to join a regional school administrative unit, as required by the state school consolidation law, and to consider whether to close Lubec High School and tuition students to another facility.

2008

Lobster fishermen in province contend with price collapse

"It's all gone to pieces in a big hurry," says lobster fisherman Laurence Cook of Seal Cove, Grand Manan. "It's an untenable situation with the price. It's very near production costs."