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2023

MAKING A LAST-DITCH APPEAL to save St. Ann's Church at Sipayik from being torn down is Hilda Soctomah Lewis, second from right, to representatives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland o

MAKING A LAST

MAKING A LAST-DITCH APPEAL to save St. Ann's Church at Sipayik from being torn down is Hilda Soctomah Lewis, second from right, to representatives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland on September 19. Listening to the discussion is Passamaquoddy Chief Rena Newell (right). The demolition of the

2023

FAREWELL TO A COMMUNITY LANDMARK. The nearly 100-year-old St. Ann's Church at Sipayik was torn down on September 20 by DeFranzo Demolition Corporation. A small crowd watched, with a number e

FAREWELL TO A COMMUNITY LANDMARK

FAREWELL TO A COMMUNITY LANDMARK. The nearly 100-year-old St. Ann's Church at Sipayik was torn down on September 20 by DeFranzo Demolition Corporation. A small crowd watched, with a number expressing sadness and crying when the cross was knocked off the church. Although efforts to save the church

2023

Cobscook Shores scales up youth outdoor education programs

Even as children across the country are becoming increasingly sedentary, efforts to get the children of coastal Washington County moving and connected with their natural environment are in full swing, thanks in part to Cobscook Shores.

2023

Couple with local ties lose home on Maui

On the morning of August 8 at 4 a.m. in Lahaina, a historic town in Maui, Hawaii, the power went out at Adrienne Mitchell's house on Front Street. She and her fiancé, Alex Leach, thought little of it, as the power would occasionally go out on the small resort town on the northwest side of the...

2023

Intertidal zone public access tied to colonial laws

A recent letter to the editor in The Quoddy Tides by a former Eastporter who had grown up on the island city spoke to the need for clarity on who owns the intertidal zones around the island, even where there is public access.

2023

Islanders fed up with project after dredging delays, missteps

Grand Mananers are fed up with a pile of dredged debris sitting on the shoreline in North Head and are demanding answers as to who will clean it up -- and when -- as the project has stalled and the completion deadline has passed.

2023

HEADING DOWN THE HOMESTRETCH in the harness racing at the Washington County Fair on August 27 in Pembroke are (from left) James Ramsdell of Pembroke driving Downeast Foxy Lady, Scott Pooler

HEADING DOWN THE HOMESTRETCH

HEADING DOWN THE HOMESTRETCH in the harness racing at the Washington County Fair on August 27 in Pembroke are (from left) James Ramsdell of Pembroke driving Downeast Foxy Lady, Scott Pooler of Vassalboro driving Pembroke Baroness and Joshua Ramsdell of Bellingham, Mass., driving Downeast Spirit. See this issue for coverage