While the Lubec Safe Harbor breakwater project is expected to go back out to bid next month, after initial bids were too high, questions have arisen about how long the project has taken and how much ...

A Shead High School graduate and former Eastport resident is returning to take part in a humanitarian mission in Africa, this ...

Camren Mumme of Sipayik got close to his first airplane when he was about 10, and he was immediately smitten. He clearly ...

On a crisp Sunday morning, a small group of birdwatchers stand quietly in a small gravel lot surrounded by secondary‑growth forest at Bog Brook Cove Preserve in Trescott. With not a breath of wind, ...

Anyone who was using the internet back in the early 2000s remembers the slow and sometimes never‑ending wait for a website to load, or the website crashing for inexplicable reasons. A recent Radiolab ...

EASTPORT NATIVE and international marathoner Robert Ashby wins the half-marathon with a new course record of 1:19:14 and is led to the finish on bike by Maine Running Hall of Fame member Deke Talbot.

The Machias Arts Council (MAC) will be opening a new community project and space this spring to both engage the membership as well as the community. The rental space located at 277 Main Street, the ...

In the March 20, 2025, report to the Washington County Commission about the recently completed 2021 county budget audit, auditor Stephen Hopkins wrote of a number of significant accounting and ...

Fifteen‑year‑old Cole Brown was up on a ladder building a shed when he heard a clamor coming from the alders behind him. He'd been hearing noises coming from the woods for hours, but this was a noise ...

The journey that brought Lauren Remington, an early childhood educator at St. Croix Regional Technical Center in Calais, to Washington, D.C., to receive the Travelers Award for Teaching Excellence at ...

PLANTING CLAM SEEDS in the Sipayik Community Clam Garden at Half Moon Cove are members of the Downeast Institute during a sunny but brisk day in early April. The clam garden, which will provide clams ...

One man was killed and a second was hospitalized when they were caught by the tide while picking periwinkles off Grand Manan's Castalia Marsh on February 19. Sanjaya Gurung, 39, died, while his ...