Jonesport News

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

A wet summer affected growing at Cranberry Cove Farm in Jonesport, where Ramone Hernandez of Deblois, farm co-owner Sharon Look and Jerry McLean of Steuben divert cranberries Tuesday to a suction device that will pump them to a hopper for sorting, cleaning and transport.

Dr. Richard Komp, a worldwide distinguished leader and expert in solar technologies came to UD on Friday night, providing a graphic lecture in the field of photovoltaics modules with which he has been experimenting and researching professionally for more than 40 years.

According to The Associated Press, the federal stimulus package included $350 million for digital cartography : making a map of broadband Internet service in the United States.

Chouan Strongin shoots her seaweed rake over the side of her dory, catching the tops of rockweed plants in its tines and then slicing it with the blade below.

SOUTHWEST HARBOR : Police summoned Sally N. Abbott, 30, of Cambridge, Mass., for speeding on Aug.

Lanny, Rita's husband, said the museum has dedicated a whole wall to her trophies, photos, letters, awards and memorabilia.

FRIENDSHIP : Ivy Gould, 97, of Friendship received the Boston Post Cane from Friendship selectmen on July 6. According to Wikipedia, the Boston Post Cane tradition was started in Boston in 1909 by The Boston Post, a daily New England newspaper that was founded in 1831.

FRIENDSHIP : Ivy Gould, 97, of Friendship received the Boston Post Cane from Friendship selectmen on July 6. According to Wikipedia, the Boston Post Cane tradition was started in Boston in 1909 by The Boston Post, a daily New England newspaper that was founded in 1831.

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.

JONESPORT, Maine a ' Maine lobstermen are talking about organizing a statewide boat tie-up in hopes of raising prices.

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Lobstermen from across Washington County gathered at the Jonesport marina Sunday to organize a statewide tie up to protest low lobster prices.

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.

JONESPORT : Rockland's most famous sardine packer, Rita Willey, now has her own exhibit at the Maine Coast Sardine History Museum in Jonesport.

MOUNT DESERT : Speaking about the importance of first steps and creating a model for campus sustainability, College of the Atlantic students and faculty dedicated a wind turbine, Wednesday, at the collegea s organic Beech Hill Farm.

A heroic boat rescue off Jonesport means an Addison man is safe tonight. The rescuer -- the man's own 8-year-old grandson.

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.

The body of 60-year-old Jonesport man who went missing after going to check on his moored sailboat has been found in eastern Maine.