Local News

After just 10 days on the job at Downeast Community Hospital (DECH), interim CEO Douglas Jones sat down for an interview with The Quoddy Tides.

There was a full house at the July 13 Eastport City Council meeting. Generally city council meetings are graced by the presence of two or three members of the public.

The afternoon of June 26 was a time for grieving for the residents of Campobello, as they watched the doors to the only banking facility on the island closed for good.

The closure of all of the southwest New Brunswick coastline and almost all of eastern Maine to the harvesting of shellfish has been hitting clam diggers hard this year.

The future looked bleak for Downeast Community Hospital (DECH) on June 25 when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) terminated the hospital's eligibility for federal funding, with an effective date of July 10.

Several land conservation proposals in Washington County will be considered by the Land for Maine's Future Board at a meeting scheduled for July 14. The meeting will be held at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole at 1:30 p.m.