Jonesport News

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.

Peter and Pamela Mullin were living the dream. In 1986, after a first anniversary at a Machiasport B-and-B, they had decided to build a simple vacation cabin on a hill in Jonesport.

A new handbook published online today by NOAA's Fisheries Service gives teachers, community groups, and the public a detailed roadmap of how to design and conduct oral history projects that celebrate the people, history and culture of our nation's coastal and Great Lakes fishing communities.

Step Out in Stonington Stonington is one of those end-of-the-road places that visitors never want to leave once they cross the famously humpbacked bridge from the mainland over Eggemoggin Reach.

ELLSWORTH : The Department of Marine Resources and Scallop Advisory Council are hosting a series of community meetings this month to solicit closure ideas from scallop fishermen who are most familiar with each area.

Hollywood has a perverse genius for subverting moral values, and this genius is nowhere more apparent than in its miscasting of characters.

The Coast Guard sent a fishing crew from Beals, Maine, back to port, Tuesday, because their lobster boat was missing important life-saving equipment while fishing about 17 miles southeast of Jonesport, Maine.

"doing great..hot as hell in the summer,but great other then that.hear you guys got pounded with " Domtar to idle pulp mill in May "who is this guy kidding? That would be one heck of a flinch! To shoot someone ...

But a Jonesport lobsterman at the center of the dispute said the bill is just the latest attempt by some of his neighbors to harass him and his family.

A syndicated radio host and a concerned Mainer are being credited with helping save the life of a woman Downeast.

But the way the economy has been tanking, I think it's going to be happening more and more.

Howie Carr does indeed have a heart. The hardboiled WRKO radio host and Herald columnist tried to dissuade a female caller - distraught over the bleak economy - from killing herself, divulging that his own ...

ROCKPORT : Owners of traditional wooden boats looking for design and restoration services need look no further than Rockport Marine.

Down East men charged with stealing $18,000 MACHIAS, Maine - Two local men are expected to appear in Washington County Superior Court on Monday, Dec.