SEVERAL STORIES appear to be added to Eastport’s downtown buildings, as the cruise ship Seven Seas Splendor towers over them ...

THE BRILLIANT LADY lies at anchor off Eastport on September 18, as the Pier Pressure brings a group of cruise ship passengers ...

In the March 20, 2025, report to the Washington County Commission about the recently completed 2021 county budget audit, auditor Stephen Hopkins wrote of a number of significant accounting and ...

A proposed dredging project off the Eastport breakwater to allow larger cruise ships to tie up at the pier instead of being at anchor in the bay is causing some concern in the ...

Fifteen‑year‑old Cole Brown was up on a ladder building a shed when he heard a clamor coming from the alders behind him. He'd been hearing noises coming from the woods for hours, but this was a noise ...

An estimated 200 people filed into the courtroom in Machias on September 11, filling it beyond capacity for a public hearing by the Washington County commissioners to hear about the proposed $11 ...

Grand Mananer Jeanne Ingalls recently reached a milestone with a hobby that has grown into an island‑wide project to spread cheer and lift spirits. Ingalls makes greeting card booklets for birthdays, ...

CHARGING UP Boynton Street to the nursing home to entertain the residents at the start of the Eastport Pirate Festival is this group of swashbuckling pirates. See this issue for more coverage of the ...

Washington County residents will have to make some tough decisions at the November 4 election polls when faced with whether to vote for a $11 million general obligation bond to bail out the county's ...

A Princeton man who may have defrauded the VA out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in disability benefits and then faked his death on the St. Croix River to evade law enforcement has been arrested ...