Community & Events

The community of Grand Manan will proceed with plans for a multi purpose complex to house recreational, cultural and social events year round, thanks to an investment from the Government of Canada and the Province of New Brunswick.

The island city was packed with visitors on September 7, 8 and 9 for the second annual Eastport Pirate Festival, which corresponded with the Salmon Festival, but featured over 20 events of its own. "This was a great success and over the top," says organizer Chris Brown of

The island city was packed with visitors on September 7, 8 and 9 for the second annual Eastport Pirate Festival, which corresponded with the Salmon Festival, but featured over 20 events of its own. "This was a great success and over the top," says organizer Chris Brown of

Eastport's Fourth of July 2007 was another successful celebration of America's independence and Old Home Week, sum up Barbara Hicks and Roland Mitchell, co-chairmen of the Eastport Fourth of July Committee.

In only six years since it was established in 2001, the Downeast Lakes Land Trust (DLLT) has acquired some 27,000 acres of undeveloped lake region land in Washington County, participated in partnerships that acquired conservation easements on more than 312,000 additional acres, and conducted a...

The public is invited to gather at the Eastport Fish Pier on Sunday, June 10, at 3 p.m. when a restored 1942 sardine carrier will set sail on a journey to carry the story of maritime Maine and New Brunswick up the Hudson River, into the Great Lakes and then along the Atlantic seaboard.