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2023

Safe Harbor project moving forward with extra $10 million

Lubec's Safe Harbor project, which has been in the works for more than five years and recently had been stalled for lack of sufficient funding, has now taken a significant step forward with an additional $10 million expected to be provided by the federal government, bringing the total project...

2023

Longtime couple's shared dream remembered on Valentine's Day

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. -- John Lennon. That special day when two people come together to join as one...

2023

Dennysville's fiscal woes push town to consider deorganizing

On July 25, 1918, residents of the Town of Dennysville gathered to watch a 160-foot, four-masted schooner enter the Dennys River from Pushee Brothers' shipyard at Clark's Point. The town was then a bustling place, and town historian Ron Windhorst relates a diary entry from Fred Gardner...

2023

Communities pursue options in face of broadband setbacks

A number of municipalities in Washington County have been taking matters into their own hands when it comes to envisioning broadband service to meet their needs in an affordable and reliable manner that also provides high and symmetrical upload and download speeds.

2023

RETURNING to the Eastport breakwater from diving for scallops on a cold day on February 3 is Scott MacNichol of Perry aboard his boat Brayden's Future. The wind chill in Eastport on February

RETURNING

RETURNING to the Eastport breakwater from diving for scallops on a cold day on February 3 is Scott MacNichol of Perry aboard his boat Brayden's Future. The wind chill in Eastport on February 3 was -50 degrees. (Don Dunbar photo)

2023

SPINNING WITH WINTRY WARMTH is a lively crowd at the MICE (Moose Island Contra Etc.) band's first contra dance at the Eastport Arts Center on January 28. The contra dance drew people from ne

SPINNING WITH WINTRY WARMTH

SPINNING WITH WINTRY WARMTH is a lively crowd at the MICE (Moose Island Contra Etc.) band's first contra dance at the Eastport Arts Center on January 28. The contra dance drew people from nearby towns and as far as Boston. (Edward French photo)

2023

Whiting celebrates dam project funding award

An enthusiastic crowd greeted U.S. Senator Susan Collins to the Whiting Community Center on January 19; she had come to help celebrate the award of $2.9 million towards the renovation of the Mill Pond dam and the installation of a fish ladder.