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Eastport Police Chief Dale Earle was terminated from his position on October 20, just 10 days after returning to work following his being on medical leave for two and a half months.

The dispute over tribal fishing rights in the Canadian waters of Passamaquoddy Bay has surfaced again, as five fishermen from Sipayik recently were summonsed by Canadian fisheries officers for fishing without a license.

During the October 11 Eastport City Council meeting, Robin Farrin brought forth a request for the city to officially change the Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous Peoples' Day. Several community members insisted the change is "long overdue" and particularly appropriate for Eastport...

The debate over the impact of salmon farms on wild Atlantic salmon runs has again come to the fore, as for the first time in 25 years of monitoring no wild Atlantic salmon have returned from the sea this year to the Magaguadavic River fishway in St. George...

The first step in providing a "safe harbor" for Lubec fishermen was the first item discussed during a special town meeting conducted on September 14.

A row of chairs with name tags, reserved for the Calais Regional Hospital (CRH) board of directors, sat empty during the standing–room only town hall meeting that was organized by the Maine State Nurses Association on the evening of August 30 to allow community members to ask questions of CRH...