Local News

The beginning of a rockweed harvest in Cobscook Bay this month is again raising concerns among some fishermen, conservationists and landowners around the bay about the impacts on habitat for other species from the cutting of the seaweed resource.

Chris Gardner of Dennysville was selected as the new port director at the May 8 special meeting of the Eastport Port Authority board of directors. Gardner fills the port director position held by John Sullivan, who resigned effective December 31, 2006.

The Perry selectmen's meeting didn't go without debate at the regularly scheduled day on April 30.

The expected veto of the tribal racino bill by Governor John Baldacci, and the sustaining of the veto by the House of Representatives, will result in a long and costly campaign until the referendum vote in November, according to proponents of the Passamaquoddy Tribe's proposal for a commercial...

In response to residents' concerns about hazardous road conditions, including high speed in an area that has poor visibility, the Maine Department of Transportation (DOT) has finally begun reconstructing Route One in Robbinston village.

The wind and rain storm that struck the area on Monday, April 16, caused the destruction of the bald eagles' nest built at the end of a pier in Quoddy Village, Eastport, along with five other nests in the state.