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"We believe the only purpose of the Campobello Island Club is to attempt to get people to pay these dues," said Stephen Smart, mayor of the island community of Campobello, at the regularly scheduled council meeting held on June 27.

New water quality standards proposed by the federal government for the St. Croix River could cost the Woodland Pulp mill millions of dollars and also could affect a number of communities, including Baileyville and Calais, that discharge wastewater into the river.

First it was seals, porpoises and whales and now it's sturgeon and salmon that are limiting the timing of work on the two-year $15 million Eastport breakwater renovation.

A proposal to limit the number of non-resident clam diggers to 10% of the resident number in Perry and Pembroke led to a very heated meeting of the shellfish committee for the two towns on May 12.

The Campobello Island Club (CIC) was the focus of much discussion during the April 25 meeting of the Campobello council. Restrictive deed clauses and covenants...

The City of Eastport's population has declined by 300 people in 10 years, and its existing population has an average age of 54, slightly higher than the state's average. The city is not unique in its loss, as most municipalities in Washington County have been experiencing the same trend.