READY TO TAKE FLIGHT ON A SPRING DAY. This 12-foot painting on lightweight fabric was one of two Kite Works made by artist David Andree of Arkansas that he flew at Cony Park in Eastport on April 29.

HARNESS RACING was popular at the fall fairs held at the Calais racetrack, which boasted a grandstand. (Photo courtesy of ...

The May 13 meeting of the Eastport City Council was a lively and sometimes contentious affair, with a capacity crowd and an agenda featuring a couple of controversial topics – the proposed underwater ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A CROWD watches as the sardine drops at midnight to celebrate the new year, during the Tides Institute & Museum of Art's Great Sardine and Maple Leaf New Year's Eve celebration in downtown Eastport.

The federally funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in northern Maine is facing a perfect storm of challenges this year, including the unexpected combining of two social services ...

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 ...

The boards of directors of Eastport Health Care (EHC) and St. Croix Regional Family Health Center, based in Princeton, announced this week that the two organizations will be merging to improve access ...

With municipal budgets, particularly in coastal areas of Washington County, facing increasing strain, some residents and local officials are looking at how to add new revenue. Among the targets that ...

THOMAS BOUCHARD (right) speaks with U.S. Senator Bill Cohen at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., in October 1983. Bouchard was part of a vigil honoring the 18 Maine men, including ...