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Nearly 10 years after the housing authority at Pleasant Point entered the home of its former executive director, Pamela Francis, and removed her possessions, two court cases arising from those actions are proceeding in separate jurisdictions in the tortuous and never-ending manner of Dickens'...

While the property and buildings of the Boat School in Eastport were transferred on September 22 from the Maine Community College System to the City of Eastport, by legislation enacted earlier this year, questions remain about ownership of the equipment and tools used at the school.

Both the developers and the opponents of two proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals at Pleasant Point and Robbinston agree that a recently released study prepared for the government of Canada on the potential impacts of an LNG terminal on Passamaquoddy Bay contains inaccuracies and has...

Thinning the large herd of deer in Eastport without compromising public safety has been a hot-button topic on Moose Island this autumn. Eastport Police Chief Matt Vinson says his department has not made any arrests for illegal bow hunting...

A sufficient number of signatures were submitted on petitions for the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to review a proposed rate increase by the Passamaquoddy Water District (PWD).

Two appeals have been filed in Washington County Superior Court seeking a review of the decision by the Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) to rezone 120 acres in Township 14 to allow for the construction of a construction and demolition debris (CDD) landfill by Marion Transfer Station Inc.