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Contact. Tel. (207) 853-4806 Fax 853-4095. November 8, 2024. WITCHES and warlocks paraded through downtown Eastport during the Witches of Eastport festival on October 26. See this issue for more photos and an article on the bewitching festival. (Don Dunbar photo) Click Link For Public Notices. To read all the news in The Quoddy Tides, subscribe ...
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Tel. (207) 853-4806 Fax 853-4095. October 25, 2024. HOMEWARD BOUND past Cherry Island, by the light of a full hunter’s moon after a day of fishing, is the Tide Chaser, a lobster boat owned by Elijah Brice of Eastport. (Edward French photo) Click Link For Public Notices. To read all the news in The Quoddy Tides, subscribe now or pick up the ...
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Tel. (207) 853-4806 Fax 853-4095. October 11, 2024. FIRE ENGULFS the H D and Sons Seafood warehouse located on the Lubec waterfront on October 1. The Campobello fire department provided mutual aid to the Lubec department, bringing several trucks and a cadre of firefighters to the scene. A pumper belonging to Whiting was also pressed into service.
Search continues off Lubec for missing paddleboarder - Quoddy …
Search 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 ...
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Storm delivers hurricane force winds, outages and damage
by 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 ...
Steady warmth leads to one of hottest summers in Quoddy area
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 ...
Tradition of Navy ship for Fourth returns to Eastport - Quoddy Tides
by 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.
Home insurance threatened by climate change - Quoddy Tides
The winter season of high winds, storm surges and driving rain causing flying roof shingles and other damages to property is driving up some insurance premiums and in other cases causing insurance companies to drop property policies or entire zip codes. Roger Quirk, a Lubec resident with long family ties to the area, says, "I was really shocked ...
Death of kayaker prompts questions - Quoddy Tides
Spahn's death has raised questions about what may have happened and why the search to find him did not begin sooner. The U.S. Coast Guard received a report on Sunday, August 6, at 9:35 a.m. from a boater of an overturned kayak in the vicinity of Liberty Point at the southeastern tip of Campobello in Canadian waters, and both the Canadian and U ...