Local News

Maine Indian Education (MIE) is negotiating to purchase the Downeast Heritage Museum building in Calais to rebuild it as a Native American museum and cultural and economic development center. The heritage museum has struggled since its opening in 2004 with severe financial difficulties.

About 40 people attended the annual Perry town meeting and voted on 64 articles in just over two hours. Residents engaged in a lengthy discussion on whether to allow the town to construct a 30'x 50' addition to the existing municipal building on Route 1.

Lyme disease is moving up the coast of Maine, as coastal areas see an increase in development and landscaped habitat. Incidents in Washington County were recorded for the first time in 2008 with three cases, a number far lower than counties such as York...

With increasing pressure for the provincial government to drop its plan to reduce the Deer Island ferry service to only one vessel for a four and one-half month period each year, the area's representative in the New Brunswick legislative assembly maintains that an announcement will be made soon...

Tobique First Nation representative Wendall Nicholas arrived on Grand Manan on August 12 with an investigating team to review, restructure and reassess the Tobique fisheries.

A plan to kill sea lice on farm-raised salmon with a pesticide that subsequently will be flushed into several bays in southwest New Brunswick is generating concern among fishermen and environmentalists.