Beals News

Classes at Winthrop schools are cancelled for the rest of this week because of a swine flu outbreak.

At least two school systems in Maine this week have canceled classes because of unusually high absentee rates.

Kenneth Chandler, 20, of Beals Island, who took a drunken joy ride on a lobster boat in May 2008 and abandoned the boat in the island's harbor allowing it to crash into four other boats, was sentenced Monday to 40 months in prison, with all but two years suspended.

This week on a special High-Definition edition of Bill Green's Maine.... We're traveling to the four corners of the state.

BEALS ISLAND : The Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education is holding a Shellfish Field Day at their facility at Black Duck Cove, Great Wass Island-Beals. The event is scheduled for Saturday, Aug.

Jim Batson and his cousin Rusty Batson of Jonesport sort through their catch aboard Blue Moon to be sold at the Beals-Jonesport Co-op in Jonesport on Tuesday.

Efforts are now under way to ensure the same thing doesn't happen to the state's fishermen.

Maine lobstermen have been racing their boats competitively for more than 100 years.

Maine lobstermen have been racing their boats competitively for more than 100 years.

Every day when Ronnie Peacock opens his Maine Coast Sardine History Museum, he blows the factory whistle on the roof.

For coastal communities that rely on shellfish harvesting to survive, closures forced by toxic algae blooms - really hits us in the gut' Commercial clam diggers Alan Hutchinson and John Forrester work on the mud flats near the Deer Isle causeway Friday afternoon.

Dozens of lobstermen gunned their engines and left rooster tails in their wake as the Maine lobster boat season got under way over the weekend.

Lobster boats tore past the Rockland Harbor breakwater Sunday morning, leaving white rooster tails - and spectators' cheers - in their wakes.

BEALS ISLAND, Maine a ' A multi-agency search spearheaded by the U.S. Coast Guard lead to the recovery of a Jonesport man who went missing on Wednesday.