Nancy Beal

Robbinston Days was celebrated on August 3 at the Robbinston Community Center on Route 1. The Touch-A-Truck kicked off the fun-filled day, with music and food following. Skye’s Hope, Ken and Jane Brooks, and Pink Capos performed. There was free food, a bounce house, cornhole, kids’ games, history exhibits, and a bake sale. (Robbinston Historical Society photo)

The Eastport Mermaid Festival took place last weekend. Eastport Elementary School Cheer squad leads the “Under the Sea” group dance in the Eastport Amphitheater. (Photo credit: Georgie Kendall, Perry)

Margaret Casey and Jennifer Bristol gathered with children from the LCOC Summer Recreation Program to raise the banner for the Lubec Playground Workday and Celebration to take place on September 29. Read more in our September 12 issue. (Submitted photo)

Paul Sylvain

Add historic renovations to Northfield resident and Machias developer Justin King’s growing resumé. King announced on Aug. 2 that he received a notice of intent to award King Construction a $450,000 contract for repair and renovations of the iconic red and white candy-striped tower and map room at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse. 

Paul Sylvain

It seemed like a simple enough question about travel expenses related to the District Attorney's office, but even simple questions can get muddled up when a single DA serves two counties, each with its own office staffed by its own assistant and deputy district attorneys.

Paul Sylvain

Call it a case of buyer’s remorse, but a deal approved July 29 by Dennysville voters to transfer all of the town’s pre-kindergarten through Grade 8 students to Pembroke Elementary School (PES) was being rethought by many of those same voters late last week.

Eastport, Maine, USA - Cooke USA is proud to celebrate 20 years of aquaculture operations in Maine to supply fresh Atlantic salmon to grocery stores and restaurants throughout New England and the United States.

Cooke has over 200 employees throughout the state and is one of Washington County’s largest employers - a region devoted to aquaculture and fishing in the Gulf of Maine. Today, the company operates certified marine farms in Down East Maine, a salmon processing plant in Machiasport and three land based freshwater hatcheries -- two in western Maine and one in eastern Maine.

Paul Sylvain

“If you don’t say ‘wild’, it’s just another festival.”

That’s according to Machias Town Manager Bill Kitchen who made that statement as a reminder to the town’s selectboard at the close of its Aug. 14 meeting. And indeed, last weekend’s 47th annual edition of the Machias Wild Blueberry Festival proved wild in a good way.

Last Saturday, August 17, four-year-old Edith Stewart, daughter of Samantha and James Stewart of Charlotte, was awarded the Pembroke Library’s #1 Reader Award and Certificate. Edith has checked out the most books not only in 2024, but also in 2023 and 2022 for a total of 514 books.  She was also given a gift bag of books and a gift certificate donated by Michelle Curtis, owner of the Polar Treat in Perry.  Congratulations, Edith! (Pembroke Library photo)