Local News

The Eastport City Council is grappling with an unexpected issue brought to its attention by resident Janice Bonavito of 26 Mitchell Street that there are possibly a number of "right-of-way" streets in the city that may not be plowed by the city starting this winter.

The Eastport Fiber Connectivity Committee is on a roll, with the city council granting at its September 14 meeting permission for the committee to begin initial discussions with Pleasant Point, Perry and Charlotte.

The September 14 meeting of the Lubec Select Board was preceded by the fourth public presentation by the town's broadband expansion committee. Led by Martha Howell, the meeting attracted 18 members of the public, including two from Trescott...

Lubec Select Board Chair Carol Dennison outlined a change in the approach to constructing the Safe Harbor project, addressing the board during the regular August 31 meeting...

Residents of Sipayik and Eastport should now be seeing an improvement in the quality of water supplied by the Passamaquoddy Water District (PWD), particularly in the summer and fall, as two new granular activated carbon (GAC) filters arrived last week at the PWD's water treatment plant in Perry...

The City of Eastport recently became the seventh Washington County municipality to sign on to the revitalization of the Washington County Council of Governments (WCCOG), a membership organization that operated until a couple of years ago for the benefit of its members with planning services and...