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WEBContact. Tel. (207) 853-4806 Fax 853-4095. September 13, 2024. BRAILING MACKEREL into barrels from a stop seine near Shackford’s Cove, Eastport, on September 4 are crews from Miss Meliss Enterprise, owned by Earl Small, and the purse seiner Burton G., run by Darren Turner. The shut-off yielded 19 barrels of fish that were sold for lobster bait.
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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 ...
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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 ...
Steady warmth leads to one of hottest summers in Quoddy area
WEB22 hours ago · Maine saw its warmest summer on record, and the Quoddy region experienced one that was as hot as the record-breaker three years ago. Ed Mekelburg of Robbinston, a weather observer for the National Weather Service, says that the mean temperature for June, July and August 2 was 66.40 F, which ties the figure set in 2021 for the hottest summer in ...
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.
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 ...
Boyden Lake’s low water level raising concerns for residents
WEBThe low water level is raising concerns not only about the impacts for those who live on the lake but also about possible effects on drinking water quality for the Passamaquoddy Water District (PWD), which serves Sipayik and Eastport. But some lakefront residents are not too worried. Kevin Raye, who has been on the lake for 63 years, says that ...
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 ...
Tribal fishing rights disputed along border - quoddytides.com
WEB18 hours ago · September 27, 2024 (Home) The dispute over tribal fishing rights in Passamaquoddy Bay is again heating up, with four Passamaquoddy fishermen from Sipayik facing charges for lobstering in Canadian waters, the Canadian fisheries minister voicing support for Indigenous fishing rights and lobster fishermen from …
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.