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After a four-hour Whiting Board of Appeals hearing on October 1 with over 60 residents attending to hear why four residents of Yellow Birch Road were appealing a planning board decision to approve a permit for U.S.

Sea urchin fishermen are finding slim pickings in Cobscook Bay since the Maine Zone 2 season opened on October 1. This year boats are limited to no more than seven totes per day, but Maine Marine Patrol officer Russell Wright reports that some draggers didn't even get that amount on the first day.

The recent news by the Oceanview Nursing Home in Lubec that it is up for sale has many feeling a sense of déjà vu. When the Calais-based nursing home, Atlantic Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, closed its doors in 2012, the city reeled from the loss of about 90 jobs.

“All we know for sure is that the policing model is going to change,” says Campobello Mayor Stephen Smart during a recent interview, expressing concerns about the response time from police when an emergency occurs on the island.

The proposed location of a U.S. Cellular cell tower on Yellow Birch Road in Whiting is the subject of a Whiting Board of Appeals public hearing scheduled for Tuesday, October 1, at 6:30 p.m. at the town office.

A convicted embezzler who was the ringleader of a group that stole more than $2.