Local News

The atmosphere has been tense and emotions are running high on Grand Manan in the wake of the now infamous July 22 riot that left a Cedar Street house in ashes and a suspected drug dealer and his entourage badly beaten.

At the Perry selectmen's meeting on July 24, Town Clerk Janice Scanlon reported her findings to town selectmen regarding a petition circulated by some Perry residents to enact a recall ordinance to eventually oust two selectmen, David Turner and Dick Adams, from the Perry board.

Deer Island residents want to be on the map when it comes to charts showing a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to be located at Split Rock, Pleasant Point.

Grand Manan fish farmers have been fighting an outbreak of the deadly infectious salmon anemia (ISA) that struck the northern part of the island earlier this year and now is hitting sites around White Head Island.

Toward the end of a two-hour Perry selectmen's meeting, at the time usually earmarked for liquefied natural gas (LNG) issues concerning the town, Selectman David Turner responded publicly to a May 26 letter that was sent to residents in town from the Perry Citizens for Responsible Growth (PCRG).

A study of the potential impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in Passamaquoddy Bay concludes that the economic stimulus provided to the region by one or more LNG import terminals would be limited.