2008 SPRING CHICKS, SPRING CHICKS, recently hatched at the Whiting Village School, are the creation of the third and fourth grade students and art teacher Lisa Marie Bartlett. (Chessie Johnson photo)
2008 Local schools face large cuts in state funds As the state wrestles with how to address a $190 million shortfall in funding, the effect on local education budgets is leaving educators worried.
2008 Sheriff still troubled by actions of local MDEA officer on DVD "These people should be the best of the best, not the worst of the worst," says Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith, referring to a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) officer, shown drinking and driving and committing other questionable acts on a recently surfaced DVD.
2008 Ten-year ordeal ends with court ruling for Francis Passamaquoddy Tribal Court Judge Rebecca Irving issued a decision on March 3 in favor of Pamela Francis in a lawsuit she brought in 2002 against the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Housing Authority for breaking into her residence and damaging her property in February 1998.
2008 Maine filmmaker targets Eastport for murder mystery Eastport will once again be the site of a film production, and area residents will have an opportunity to be actors in a low-cost film scheduled to be shot during late April and May.
2008 Reopening one dam for alewives recommended The legislature's Marine Resources Committee held an unexpected work session this week to reconsider its recommendation on a bill to restore the alewife run on the St. Croix River.
2008 MARCH CAME IN LIKE A LION, MARCH CAME IN LIKE A LION, and weathering another winter storm on Johnson's Bay in Lubec is the scallop dragger Dorothy Mitchell. (Chessie Johnson photo, copyright 2008)