Quoddy Tides
WEBEastport proved to be a winning suitor for the Enchanted Princess cruise ship, following a sun-kissed rendezvous of shop owners and residents with the guests from the Love Boat-themed cruise who filled the downtown on September 3. The largest cruise ship to visit Eastport, at 1,082 feet, with nearly 3,500 passengers and over 1,360 crew members, was anchored off the breakwater throughout the ...
Quoddy Tides
WEBWith would be pirates about to descend on Eastport, the knots of fiction versus fact can be hard to untangle. There is a rich and documented history of smuggling around Passamaquoddy Bay, but real life pirates visiting the region are still a matter of stories of buried treasure, like that from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.The treasure is said to be buried deep somewhere along the ...
Local observations sought to assess flooding along coast
WEBIdeally, GRMI is hoping that observations will be made at each site a few times a year, particularly during flood events or king or high tides, Sun said. It's also important to make observations during calm days, as these serve as important comparisons. Lubec residents in attendance at the meetup responded favorably to the effort.
Storm delivers hurricane force winds, outages and damage
WEBby Lora Whelan. In the aftermath of the hurricane force wind and rain storm on Monday, December 19, Governor Janet Mills declared a state of civil emergency for 14 Maine counties, including Washington County, with hundreds of thousands of people without power and significant flooding and infrastructure damage, including to the state's federal ...
Estimates on great white shark numbers in region debated
WEBCrawford notes that approximately 500 white sharks have been tagged and can thus be detected. Other scientists have estimated that there are at least 10,000, perhaps tens of thousands, of white sharks in the northwest Atlantic. Last year 45 great white sharks were detected in Passamaquoddy Bay. If only 5%, or fewer, of the sharks are tagged ...
Timeframe, flooding questions arise after dike plan changes
WEBFollowing the November 7 announcements by the Maine Department of Transportation (DOT) that it was immediately closing part of the Machias dike in preparation of replacing the failing structure and that it was pivoting from a bridge as its preferred replacement option to a dike with fully gated culverts, questions have arisen for Machias residents.
Primary candidates state their positions on issues - Quoddy Tides
WEBIncumbent Republican Matthew Foster, the district attorney for Washington and Hancock counties, is being challenged in the primary by Republican Steven Juskewitch of Dedham. Also running in the general election is independent candidate Robert Granger of Blue Hill. Matthew Foster. Matthew Foster has served as district attorney for eight years ...
Intertidal zone public access tied to colonial laws
WEBThe Clark Street access provides an example of how early colonial law shaped the use of the intertidal zone. The deed to the road, when accepted by the city in 1821, states that it begins "on the low-water mark on the beach near Clark's smokehouse to the county road." It's a picture into the past when much of the island's perimeter was built ...
Proposed county budget calls for unprecedented 20% increase
WEBThe proposed Washington County budget calls for an unprecedented hike of almost 20%, with the amount to be raised through taxation of the county's municipalities at $8.68 million, a little less than $1.5 million over the previous year's amount and over $2 million more than the county's 2020 budget.
Tribal sovereignty bill may be pared down to consensus issues
WEBA tribal sovereignty bill that was introduced in the legislature near the end of February may be pared down to those areas where agreement can be reached between the tribes and the state so that it doesn't end up being vetoed at the end of the short legislative session scheduled to adjourn in April.
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