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Islanders scrambled to keep Campobello Lodge residents warm and safe when the nursing home lost its electricity twice around Christmas and New Year's.

An enthusiastic crowd greeted U.S. Senator Susan Collins to the Whiting Community Center on January 19; she had come to help celebrate the award of $2.9 million towards the renovation of the Mill Pond dam and the installation of a fish ladder.

The new year rang in with sirens for two people last week on an icy, lonely stretch of road in western Washington County. The first person slipped and fell, soon becoming hypothermic.

Efforts to restore the alewife run on the St. Croix River, through a partnership involving federal, state, tribal, provincial and private entities, have been boosted by two large funding awards in a month, with a third award anticipated.

Eastport is one step closer to the possibility of three years of subsidized air service to Portland with an established airline.

‘I hope I'm not the first one who dies.’ One Grand Manan resident voiced what may be on the minds of more than a few islanders with the failure of New Brunswick's government to renew Atlantic Charters' medevac contract through Ambulance New Brunswick (ANB).