The aquaculture workers, paddling on a life raft, are picked up by the Maine Marine Patrol in Passamaquoddy Bay.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Salmon farmer set to use Norway’s ‘Thermolicer’ technology
Cooke Aquaculture will use warm-water baths to remove lice from the fish.
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Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime
Judge allows Eastport man in manslaughter case to go outside Riverview
Hazen McDugald, who was found not criminally responsible for the 2015 death of Maurice Harris, 75, in Eastport, will be allowed in the community for up to six hours with supervision.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Coast Guard rescues 4 boaters whose skiff capsized off Eastport
The mishap occurred Tuesday afternoon in Deep Cove, and a fifth boater swam to shore.
Posted inHomegrown, Source
Handwoven Passamaquoddy baskets from the ’60s sold to fund conservation efforts in Maine
These wooden baskets were long ago made obsolete by cheap plastic baskets and the disappearance of Maine canneries, but now they are collectors’ items.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Sen. Collins cheered in Maine after stand on health care
One of only a handful of Republican senators who opposed the bill, she marches unbowed in Eastport’s Fourth of July parade.
Posted inNews, Outdoors, Sports
Eastport gets its special deer hunt, but for one year only
Some members of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s Advisory Council say the island’s deer problem is the fault of department policies.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Outdoors
In Eastport, nothing overruns like whitetail deer
Hit by a wave of whitetails – ‘they are everywhere’ – this island community has proposed a special doe-only hunt and is awaiting state approval.
Posted inLocal & State
Phone threat shuts down Eastport schools
Two schools are put into lockdown and then students are evacuated and dismissed until Thursday.