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The Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is expected next week to approve an agreement that trims back on the proposed water rate increase for the Passamaquoddy Water District (PWD), from a 22.4% jump in revenue to a 19.3% increase.

The commute to work for Linda Matthews is not a matter of heavy or stalled traffic or changing lanes, but rather the need to cross borders. Matthews, who is corporate logistics manager for Cooke Aquaculture based in St. George, leaves her home on Campobello and crosses at the U.S.

Maine voters narrowly defeated the Passamaquoddy Tribe's proposal for a harness racing track with slot machines in Calais during the statewide election on November 6. The racino referendum question was turned down by a margin of 52% to 48%, or by about 12,000 votes, according to unofficial tallies.

Eight directors of the Marion Transfer Station (MTS), manager Milan Jamieson, and general counsel for MTS, Dennis Mahar, met with Washington County Commissioners immediately after their regular meeting of November 1.

About 600 lobster fishermen in Washington County dodged a bullet with the decision by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to rescind temporary restrictions on lobster and gillnet fishing gear aimed at protecting endangered whales.

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'...