Cliff-Island News

The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to grant seven island post offices part-time status in order to keep them open six hours a day, according to a joint press release issued Tuesday by U.S. Reps.

Fifty-five small Maine post offices have implemented reduced hours as part of the United States Postal Service's attempt to save money.

A plan to reduce post office hours early next year is generating opposition from some residents, and from Maine's two U.S. representatives.

Lifelong Copper Cliff resident Rob Fleming remembers the day the community's cenotaph was first unveiled.