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Comprehensive News Feed for Jonesport, ME.

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  1. An American colony in JaffaRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday Nov 27 | Jerusalem Post

    ... into a museum. David Bolton, grandson of Reed Holmes, explained that the Jaffa Colony's story begins in 1866 in Jonesport, Maine. It was the brainchild of George Jones Adams, a Shakespearian actor and Methodist preacher turned Mormon missionary. ...

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    Related Topix: Travel, Israel, Israel Travel, Hamerkaz, Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, World News, Tel Aviv, Israel Travel, Middle East, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)

  2. Lighting up the holiday season:

    Yesterday | Bangor Daily News

    ... Sunday evening. Noah is blind and at age six is already a talented piano player with a local fanbase. Buy Photo JONESPORT, Maine - There was a bit of holiday magic in the waters between the coastal town of Jonesport and the island of Beals on Sunday ...

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    Related Topix: Beals, ME, Life, Holidays, Christmas

  3. High absenteeism among students and staff due to ...Read the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Nov 11 | VillageSoup

    ... N1 in Maine than seasonal flu right now," he said. "Seasonal flu hasn't shown up yet in great numbers." Schools in Jonesport and on Beals Island in Washington County also were closed this week because of high rates of flu-related absenteeism.

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    Related Topix: Education Etc., Winthrop, ME, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

  4. Winthrop Schools Closed

    Wednesday Nov 11 | WABI-TV Bangor

    ... he's cancelling classes on Thursday and Friday so everyone can have time to get better. School was canceled in Jonesport and Beals on Monday and Tuesday, following the confirmation of a case of H1N1 there. More than 40 schools in Maine have reported ...

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    Related Topix: Winthrop, ME, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Education Etc., Beals, ME

  5. Injured person on sailboat rescuedRead the original story w/Photo

    Sunday Nov 8 | Bangor Daily News

    ... injury. The U.S. Coast Guard launched a 47-foot boat from Rockland Station and the 87-foot cutter Moray from Jonesport to meet the sailboat and escort it to a more sheltered location. Coast Guard crews stabilized the patient before transferring the ...

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    Related Topix: US Coast Guard, US Military, US News, US Coast Guard, Rockland, ME

  6. Maine's cranberry growers find their healthy product under siege

    Oct 30, 2009 | Bangor Daily News

    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.

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    Related Topix: Maine, Steuben, ME, Agriculture, Science, Washington County, ME

  7. Chester E. Lenfestey Sr.Read the original story

    Sep 28, 2009 | Village Soup

    ROCKLAND : Chester E. Lenfestey Sr., 83, formerly of Jonesport, died Sept. 23, 2009, at his home with his wife, Margaret, at his side, after a long illness.

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    Related Topix: Obituaries

  8. Chester Lenfestey Sr.Read the original story

    Sep 24, 2009 | Village Soup

    ROCKLAND : Chester E. Lenfestey Sr., 83, formerly of Jonesport, died Sept. 23, 2009, at his home after a long illness, with his wife, Margaret, at his side.

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    Related Topix: Obituaries

  9. Solar Power Discussed As Energy Source

    Sep 21, 2009 | Flyer News

    ... a good poster child for using solar energy. His off-the-grid technical advanced house that he built by himself in Jonesport, Maine, was decked out with many of the technologies including photovoltaics, solar thermal hot water and rain water ...

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    Related Topix: Solar Energy, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy

  10. Throwing money blindly

    Sep 15, 2009 | Sun Journal

    ... to serve northern-central Maine, encircling Dover-Foxcroft, and several projects in Downeast Maine, around Jonesport, among others. While these projects are undoubtedly beneficial on a local level, they cannot masquerade for a comprehensive ...

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    Related Topix: Dover-Foxcroft, ME

  11. Seaweed harvest dispute swirling

    Sep 14, 2009 | Bangor Daily News

    ... is not sustainable. It makes absolutely no sense." But for the seven harvesters in Cobscook Bay, eight more at Jonesport and another 16 off Grand Manan, the harvest means a weekly paycheck of $1,000 to $1,500. A good harvester, Strongin said, can ...

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    Related Topix: Grand Manan, NB, New Brunswick, Canada, Canada, Saint John Area, NB, Agriculture, Science

  12. Sleeping on a Tide Table: A Kayak Trip to The Sands, off Jonesport, Maine.Read the original story w/Photo

    Sep 14, 2009 | Village Soup

    ... the Maine Coast The Sands is an enchanting place, little more than a sand bar, about 10 miles south-southwest of Jonesport, Maine. It's a Bureau of Public Lands island visited by seals, seabirds, the occasional plucky kayaker and not much else. The ...

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    Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation, Kayaking, Camping

  13. Southwest Harbor police blotter

    Sep 2, 2009 | VillageSoup

    ... Harbor, for operating with a suspended license on Aug. 26. On Aug. 27, police summoned Sean F. Walsh, 23, from Jonesport, for operating with an expired license over 90 days. A Marshall Brook Road resident called to report two pigs running loose in ...

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    Related Topix: Southwest Harbor, ME, Bass-Harbor, ME

  14. Machias Seal Island offers puffin-watchers paradiseRead the original story w/Photo

    Aug 24, 2009 | CBC

    ... Then ita TMs time to leave. Before long, a tour boat from the U.S. will arrive. Tours are offered by Norton of Jonesport, out of Jonesport, Maine, and Bold Coast Charter Company, out of Cutler, Maine. Machias Seal Island is at the centre of an ...

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    Related Topix: New Brunswick, Canada, Wildlife, Outdoor Recreation

  15. Includes Photographs

    Aug 16, 2009 | Village Soup

    ... the exhibit on Rockland's most famous sardine packer, Rita Willey, at the Maine Coast Sardine History Museum in Jonesport. Lanny, Rita's husband, said the museum has dedicated a whole wall to her trophies, photos, letters, awards and memorabilia. ...

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    Related Topix: Rockland, ME, Port-Clyde, ME, Lubec, ME, Opinion

  16. Gould receives Boston Post Cane

    Aug 8, 2009 | Village Soup

    ... of Kathy MacLeod) Gould was born in Addison on Nov. 24, 1911. She and her husband, Thurman Gould, both grew up in Jonesport, a small fishing village in Washington County. They were married July 26, 1931. Thurman was a sardine seiner for many years. ...

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    Related Topix: Friendship, ME, Washington County, ME

  17. Journey to the Center of Pulpit Rock: A Sea Kayak Day Trip out of Jonesport, MaineRead the original story w/Photo

    Aug 4, 2009 | Village Soup

    After completing the 100 mile drive from Belfast, Maine, I launched at noon from Kelly Point Campground in Jonesport.

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    Related Topix: Brothers, OR

  18. Journey to the Center of Pulpit Rock: A Sea Kayak Daytrip out of Jonesport, MaineRead the original story w/Photo

    Aug 3, 2009 | Village Soup

    After completing the 100 mile drive from Belfast, Maine, I launched at noon from Kelly Point Campground in Jonesport.

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    Related Topix: Brothers, OR

  19. Top U.S. News PhotosRead the original story w/Photo

    Jul 23, 2009 | Fox News

    ... 23: Lobsterman Bobby Davis has a long way to go to reach his skiff as he descends a wharf ladder at low tide, in Jonesport, Maine. The 12-foot tide will reach the upper rungs of the ladder when it comes in about 6 hours later. Eastern Maine has some ...

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    Related Topix: Hoover, AL

  20. Low prices have lobstermen adrift

    Jul 21, 2009 | Bangor Daily News

    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.

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    Related Topix: Beals, ME, Maine

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