Eastport News

What better way to start the new year than to begin training nine new employees? As of Monday morning, Domtar Corp.'s Washington County pulp mill is operating at full capacity with 309 employees, spokesman Scott Beal said Monday, and company officials are looking hopefully to the rest of 2010.

For the fifth consecutive year, the A A AoeGreat Sardine and Maple Leaf DropA A A will ring in the new year in Eastport, Maine.

Maine Fast Fact : Eastport, Maine is the birthplace of Maine's canned sardine industry and is now the leading producer of farm-raised Atlantic salmon.

Maurice Mills of Eastport notes how many and what types of birds are spotted on Saturday at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, during the Down East annual Audubon Christmas bird count.

In Italy, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela and several other countries, wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve is believed to bring love, while wearing yellow underwear brings prosperity.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Great Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop will ring in the new year in Eastport.

The Maine Port Authority has been trying to find a developer to build a cargo terminal on Sears Island, right, on state-owned land managed by the Department of Transportation and to expand operations near the existing cargo terminal at Mack Point.

Eastport, Maine hosts it fifth annual Great Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop to celebrate the New Year.

Bill Schaefer of East Machias, Maine with the New Year's Eve Sardine at the Tides Institute in Eastport.

Maine Fast Fact : Old Sow, one of the world's largest whirlpools is located off the coast of Eastport, Maine and people who successfully cross its waters automatically become members of the Old Sow Whirlpool Survivors' Association.

In doing do, they reflect the energy, imagination and hard work that characterize the workplace in Maine.

The body of one of the fishermen lost from the fishing vessel Bottom Basher in Cobscook Bay in October was brought to the surface Friday by a local scallop dragger.

Should volunteer firefighters face more screening? Two volunteer firefighters in Maine were recently accused of setting fires.

Four members of the City Council on Monday night unanimously accepted the resignation of longtime Town Manager George "Bud" Finch, effective Dec.

City and state officials hope to find out soon if Portland will get $23 million in federal stimulus money for improvements to its waterfront, including the construction of a deep-water cruise ship berth.

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It was a daunting task. One hundred boxes of unnamed materials and documents found in the attic, crawl spaces and closets of the Washington County Courthouse needed to be preserved.

Divers from the Maine State Police, Marine Patrol and Department of Marine Resources on Monday found the hull of what they believe is the fishing vessel All American, upside down on the bottom of the bay.

Main American novelist ne Mary Hayden Green, pseudonym Mary Langdon or Sydney A. Story, Jr.

When asked this Thanksgiving what they are most thankful for, many Washington County residents didn't list material things.