Local News

Lobster catches in southwest New Brunswick again are up significantly this year over last year, since the season opened on November 11.

After just about 18 months on the job, Eastport City Manager Larry Post tendered his resignation at a special city council meeting held the evening of November 21.

The Passamaquoddy tribal government at Pleasant Point has been placed under sanction by the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for being delinquent on its audit reports.

A Lubec woman died in a single-vehicle accident during the early November snowstorm that paralyzed much of the state. Danielle D. Moores, 28, died at the scene when her vehicle, a 2002 Ford F-250, flipped over and landed in five feet of water alongside State Route 189 in Trescott.

Lubec residents continue to grapple with the aftermath of the October 8 incident involving a school bus transporting students to Machias Memorial High School and Washington Academy that resulted in the arrest of teacher Deborah Bousquet by Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith.

The recounting of a nearly eight-year-long effort by a Perry man in dealing with a bureaucratic nightmare to obtain birth certificates and Social Security numbers for his two children reads like a Kafka novel with an American catch-22 spin.