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Politics & Government

2019

Bills focus on rockweed law and DA district

Bills affecting Washington County to be taken up during the upcoming legislative session include ones that would repeal the rockweed management law for Cobscook Bay, allow for a referendum on whether the county should have its own district attorney and extend the Down East Sunrise Trail to Calais.

2019

Voters elect Williamson as MP

Voters in New Brunswick Southwest gave Conservative candidate John Williamson another chance to represent them in Ottawa on October 21. He received 19,457 votes in Canada's 43rd general election, giving him a margin of more than 9,000 over Liberal Karen Ludwig...

2019

MP candidates for NB Southwest state positions

Voters in New Brunswick Southwest have a choice of six candidates in the federal election on Monday, October 21. Liberal Karen Ludwig hopes for a second term while Conservative John Williamson hopes to take back the seat he lost in 2015.

2019

Bill to amend rockweed law is finally killed

A bill that would have allowed for the harvesting of rockweed in Maine's intertidal zone without having to obtain permission from the upland landowner has been defeated in the legislature, following a contentious debate.

2019

Pre release center to be built at prison site

The 15 months of limbo have been resolved for the Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF) in Bucks Harbor, with Governor Janet Mills and the Washington County legislative delegation announcing on May 3 that they have reached an agreement to build a new pre-release center on the existing DCF grounds.

2019

Legislative panel eyes changes to allow rockweed harvesting

In the wake of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court's March 28 decision that rockweed in the intertidal zone is the property of the upland landowner and not a public resource, a legislative committee is seeking to craft a means through statute to allow for commercial rockweed harvesting -- and the...

2019

Downeast prison’s fate still being debated

The question of whether the shuttered Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF) in Bucks Harbor will be reopened or a new pre-release center will be established in the Machias area is in legislative limbo...