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Eastport’s new warehouse gets push

The stop-and-start progress toward a new warehouse for the Port of Eastport got a shove Sept. 16 when the Eastport Port Authority’s board of directors, unanimously declaring its commitment to the project, sent a proposal to Federal Marine Terminals for completion of the structure this fall. The action was driven, at least in part, by

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No fishing, just a plaque

July 2 marked the 10th anniversary of the moratorium imposed on the Newfoundland cod fishery, caused by its virtual collapse – and Newfoundlanders commemorated the date with the unveiling of a plaque in St. John’s. The text reads: “For nearly 500 years the fishery sustained, employed, and defined the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. Generations

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Old Home Week

When Eastport harbor pilot Captain Bob Peacock stepped onto the deck of the USS GONZALEZ (DDG 66) from the destroyer’s pilot’s ladder on July 3 in the Bay of Fundy, his step represented the culmination of a lot of work by Peacock and a lot of other people. And the work was continuing as Peacock

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