by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Forty community leaders and business owners converged on the Cobscook Institute in Trescott March 15 for the first of three workshops in the “Way Downeast” Community Destination Academy, sponsored by the Maine Office of Tourism (MOT) and Maine Woods Consortium. Representatives from four communities — Machias, Lubec, Eastport, and Calais — were led through a series of presentations and exercises on the theme of tourism.