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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 ...
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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 ...
Search continues off Lubec for missing paddleboarder - Quoddy …
WEBSearch groups have continued looking for a paddleboarder in the waters off West Quoddy Head in Lubec for more than two weeks without success. Harold Dean Jackson III, known as Dean, of Asheville, N.C., was last seen the night of July 3, although he was not reported missing until July 6. The U.S. Coast Guard received a call that day from the ...
Community mourns loss of Machias town manager
WEB3 days ago · On Monday, September 9, Machias Town Manager Bill Kitchen died unexpectedly, leaving a sudden and significant void in the greater community. His loss has been felt by all who knew and worked with him. Kitchen served as the town manager since May of 2021, prior to which he was a selectman and a marketing manager through his business, KitchenSync ...
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 ...
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 ...
Historic surfboat seeks its next chapter - quoddytides.com
WEB3 days ago · Commander Dring is considered an expert on surfboats. He retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve after 27 years of active and reserve duty service on board destroyers and frigates. "Very few of these wooden surfboats survive today," says Dring. "For the Type SR motor surfboat, of the total of 318 boats built over the years 1934 to 1957, only about ...
Princess cruise ship passengers enchanted by hospitality of city
WEB3 days ago · Eastport 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 ...
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 ...
Tradition of Navy ship for Fourth returns to Eastport - Quoddy Tides
WEBby Edward French. After an absence of three years because of the pandemic, the U.S. Navy returned in full force to celebrate the Fourth of July in Eastport, a long tradition that dates back to at least 1860. The crew of the USS Oscar Austin spent six days in the island city, participating in many of the Fourth events.
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