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Are Maine's laws that provide a special real estate tax category for tree growth a necessary component that provides jobs, taxable income and economic prosperity? Or are they a "beggar-thy-neighbor" loophole that allows a few landowners to deflect their share of property tax to others?

The committee appointed by the Eastport City Council to plan for the new Deep Cove boat ramp project hit a bump at its first meeting. The committee has just started the work of researching and finding the funds to build a new public access boat ramp on Deep Cove Road.

The Passamaquoddy Tribe is asserting its fishing rights in both near-shore and offshore waters, from Point Lepreau to Cape Ann, Mass., as it develops a new fisheries management plan that may place the tribe at odds with the state of Maine and the U.S. and Canadian governments.

A sudden reversal of fortunes for area school districts hit school and municipal officials late last week, as preliminary state subsidy figures that had previously indicated districts would receive more funding now show almost all of them will lose funding.

The Grand Manan Fishermen's Association (GMFA) is asking the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to place an immediate freeze on all lobster license transfers to nonresidents of the island after a lobster license was sold outside Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) #38 to a company from the...

Although the Eastport Port Authority board voted at its November meeting to operate the bulk storage yard at the port, Federal Marine Terminals has presented a proposal to the board to operate the yard itself.