Community & Events

Some Grand Manan residents have been using social media to encourage neighbors and raise spirits as the COVID‐19 isolation continues. With children out of school and in need of some entertainment, people are thinking of ways to create fun at a safe distance.

Closures and restrictions implemented to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have hit local shellfish harvesters particularly hard.

With the COVID‑19 pandemic upending normal routines of homelife and work, classrooms and more, Downeast residents are coming up with new ways to socialize, work, learn and see the special in the everyday.

There were two major takeaways from the presentations given during Shellfish Focus Day at the Maine Fishermen's Forum, held March 5 at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. The first is that climate change has shifted the industry and that further shifts can be expected.

With the Calais border crossing the eighth busiest on the northern border and the Port of Eastport a point of entry for cruise ships and freighters, officials are on the alert for any changes to the coronavirus global pandemic that could have an impact on their operations.

Local farmers gathered to exchange opinions and hear about new developments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialists at the Lee Pellon Center in Machias during the Downeast Agriculture Conference on January 18. Topics included...