Local News

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.

Some 83 scallop draggers are finding high prices but slim pickings in Cobscook Bay this year, and many fishermen are asking that the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) close the bay, or perhaps the entire Maine coast, for the rest of the season to allow the resource to recover.

At the end of December the Eastport Senior Center will be without a manager to coordinate the Community Café and other Eastern Area Agency on Aging (EAAA) services for seniors.

With the earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at the Fukushima reactors in Japan last March fresh in everyone's minds, the risks posed by possible earthquakes to the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor were among the points pressed by those opposing the restarting of the generating station,...

A boat accident off Frye Island, near Back Bay, on Saturday, November 19, took the life of a 45-year-old Back Bay resident, but his 10-year-old son managed to make it to the shore safely.

U.S. Route 1 winds along the coast of Washington County passing through towns and small cities that often have the vestiges of a more vibrant transportation-based industry left behind.