2023
Towns use moratoriums to update regulations, plans
Downeast municipalities have seen a rise in the number of potential large-scale projects in aquaculture, mining, land development and commercial development.
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2023
Housing crisis solutions eyed by legislature
When Jennifer Sutherland decided to return to Maine from North Carolina as the laboratory manager at Down East Community Hospital (DECH) in Machias, she did not anticipate the difficulty of finding housing, either to rent or to buy.
2023
Homelessness spurs St. Stephen to examine long-term solutions
Homelessness will not go away with the arrival of warm weather, St. Stephen's Mayor Allan MacEachern says. An "out-of-the-cold" warming centre opened on December 13 to prevent people without homes from freezing to death this winter...
2023
Safe Harbor project moving forward with extra $10 million
Lubec's Safe Harbor project, which has been in the works for more than five years and recently had been stalled for lack of sufficient funding, has now taken a significant step forward with an additional $10 million expected to be provided by the federal government, bringing the total project...
2023
Dennysville's fiscal woes push town to consider deorganizing
On July 25, 1918, residents of the Town of Dennysville gathered to watch a 160-foot, four-masted schooner enter the Dennys River from Pushee Brothers' shipyard at Clark's Point. The town was then a bustling place, and town historian Ron Windhorst relates a diary entry from Fred Gardner...
2023
Whiting celebrates dam project funding award
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.
2023
Islanders ensure power stays on for nursing home
Islanders scrambled to keep Campobello Lodge residents warm and safe when the nursing home lost its electricity twice around Christmas and New Year's.