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Community & Events

2012

Council favors cut in scallop season

Maine’s Scallop Advisory Council (SAC), at a meeting on March 7 in Bangor, took initial votes to significantly reduce both the length of the scallop season and the daily catch limit, as the members wrestled with how to reopen the 10 conservation areas that have been closed to scallop fishing in...

2012

Future being laid for fiber-optic line network in county

Danny Sullivan is on a mission.

2012

Old friends visit new commander of U.S. Pacific fleet

Two Eastport residents were in the front row on January 20 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during the U.S. Pacific Fleet's change of command ceremony. New four-star Admiral Cecil D. Haney, who was replacing Admiral Patrick M.

2012

Public ownership weighed as Atlantic Rehab loses residents

Atlantic Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Calais has had 14 residents relocate to other facilities since the news broke in late January that its parent company, First Atlantic Healthcare, planned to close the facility within two years.

2012

Couples share secrets of marriage

Valentine's Day is all about loving and being loved, so three couples in the Quoddy area were asked how they found their life partners and what makes their marriages work.

2012

Greenhouse project growing more than year-round harvest

On a late January day in Eastport two residents were sitting in their lawn chairs, in shorts, with toes bared and digging into warm sand.

2012

Students present state legislators with flag for Lubec

Braving 11-degree temperatures, 24 seventh and eighth graders from the Lubec Consolidated School boarded a bus for the four-hour ride to the State Capitol; all had managed to make the 5:15 a.m. scheduled departure on January 19.