Perry News

Submitted by Meadow Rue Merrill on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 6:48pm. Midcoast Jeff Clapp's family has been vacationing in Brunswick since 1929 when his great-grandfather built a family camp here on Princess Point.

State lawmakers grappling with increasing budget shortfalls learned Tuesday that federal law will greatly limit what cuts they can make to Maine's two largest agencies - Health and Human Services and Education.

The search for a missing clammer in the Washington County town of Perry has presumably come to an end after a body was found along the shoreline.

Arthur "Skip" Calder, 51, died of drowning, the Maine State Medical Examiner's Office determined after an autopsy.

The Maine Department of Marine Resources and wardens with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife searched East Bay and the surrounding waters Monday for Arthur "Skip" Calder, 51, of Perry who was last seen harvesting clams there last Tuesday.

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PEMBROKE, Maine a ' A verbal argument between a brother and sister escalated Saturday morning until the sister allegedly punched and head-butted the brother.

We're all for Connecticut-made goods, but the truth is we're supporters of everything made in good old New England .

A fast-moving fire that destroyed a barn on Ridge Road early Sunday was so devastating that its cause is unknown.

Getting a copy of a birth certificate, adoption record or researching your family history will get a lot more expensive next week.

Doctors and nurses in 10 states, including Maine, tested positive for at least 24 different toxic chemicals in their blood and other body fluids in a study released Thursday by the national organization Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Tuesday was Stewardship Day at Cobscook Community Learning Center , and the air was filled with the sounds of hammers, saws, machinery and the smell of fresh paint.

A fallen tree in Washington County has caused power outages in Dennysville, Edmunds, Pembroke and Perry.

AUGUSTA : While local politicians, town officials and business leaders lobby to keep funding in place for a project at Mack Point, one senator from Washington County argued this week that Eastport's economy depends on upgrades at the town's port facility.

AUGUSTA : Lawmakers' changes to a proposed funding package for Maine's three ports -- in Eastport, Portland and Searsport -- last June could mean a dredging project for Mack Point in Searsport won't happen as originally planned.

MACHIAS, Maine a ' Former Washington County Sheriff Joseph Tibbetts, 61, was arrested Monday night after allegedly holding an Addison family at gunpoint in the blueberry barrens in Township 19, near Columbia Falls last week.

With their hands clasped behind their backs and their faces buried deep in blueberry pies, competitors are cheered on by the crowd during the Blueberry Pie Eating Contest on Saturday, August 15, 2009, at the Machias Wild Blueberry Festival.

Detail of Habert-Dys Lithograph, Plate 38 from Fantaisies Decoratives . EASTPORT, ME.- Jules Auguste Habert-Dys: Lithographs from Fantasies Decoratives --From the Collections of Peter Falotico is the second new exhibition of the season at the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport on view from July 29 - August 19.

Just 12 days after he was appointed the new director at The Boat School-Husson, Clint Tuttle resigned Wednesday.

Among the many changes to the nation's heath care system under consideration in Washington, an expansion of the Medicaid program is a virtual certainty.