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The inability to easily swallow anything has led to a rough start in life for little Mitchell Brooks, son of Norman and Lisa Brooks of Robbinston. "He spit up more than average, and he was colicky a bit," Lisa Brooks recalls of her youngest child, who was born on February 7, 2011.

Both reservations of the Passamaquoddy Tribe will have significant changes in leadership, following tribal elections earlier this month. A former Passamaquoddy state representative, tribal police chief and tribal councillor will be the new tribal chief at Pleasant Point...

Emotions ran high at the Pembroke town office on Friday, August 8, when over 70 residents and interested parties met with two representatives of Halcyon Tidal Power and the subsidiary Pennamaquan Tidal Power LLC and two representatives of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Grand Mananers were left reeling in the wake of another tragedy on Saturday, August 16, when a Piper PA31 on a medevac flight crashed short of the runway around 5 a.m. in fog. Pilot Klaus Sonnenberg, president of Atlantic Charters, was killed.

The Town of Perry has developed two ordinances that were scheduled to be the subject of a public hearing on the evening of Thursday, August 7. Both ordinances are unanimously supported by the town's selectmen.

The recent presence of drug gangs in the area has spurred on an effort at Pleasant Point to openly discuss drug and alcohol abuse among tribal members and to bring back the Passamaquoddy Tribe's traditions and cultural values to help address the social challenges.