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One of the largest great white sharks ever documented was seen earlier this month just north of St. Andrews in Passamaquoddy Bay. "It was pretty amazing," says Kingsley Pendleton of Lord's Cove, Deer Island, about the shark, which was estimated to be 19 to 20 feet long.

Plans for bringing the dormant Norwegian Sun cruise ship to Eastport are now on hold, and the Riviera may depart at the end of July or early August because of difficulties the cruise industry is experiencing in getting its crews home. Chris Gardner, the executive director of the Eastport Port

Plans for bringing the dormant Norwegian Sun cruise ship to Eastport are now on hold, and the Riviera may depart at the end of July or early August because of difficulties the cruise industry is experiencing in getting its crews home.

The City of Eastport may be the site of a $10 million model smart microgrid project developed over the next five years if all goes well with future agreements between the city and the tidal energy innovator Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC).

A couple who have owned two of Eastport's downtown buildings since 2003 are being sued for alleged fraud by businesses in Massachusetts and have filed for bankruptcy.

The annual alewife run up the St. Croix River has already passed last year's total. The official count at the Milltown Dam reached 607,053 as of June 27...