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A legislative bill to again close the upper portion of the St. Croix River to the passage of alewives is among the measures being submitted by area legislators for this session of the Maine Legislature.

Lubec voters again have rejected the town administration's plan to replace the existing maintenance garage and to build a new sand/salt storage facility. The 82/59 vote was announced at the conclusion of a mostly polite public meeting held on January 7 in the school cafetorium.

After reviewing the Eastport Port Authority's growth in infrastructure, assets and cash balance and contributions to the city during the past seven years, the port authority's board of directors, at its December 16 meeting, approved increasing the salary for Port Director Chris Gardner from...

A three-day mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain starting on the weekend of December 21 left many Washington and Charlotte county residents with no or intermittent power from the three companies supplying grid-connected electricity.

Efforts to bring bus tours to Eastport took a significant step forward with the decision by the Eastport Port Authority board to purchase a parcel in downtown Eastport both to serve as the port authority's office and to provide public bathrooms, which are needed for any motorcoach tours.

A piece of Grand Manan history was lost on November 19 when the Grand Harbour lighthouse, long an icon of island scenery, collapsed in that night's gale. In recent years islanders had speculated whether the crumbling structure would survive one more winter...