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A Buzzworthy Achievement as Jonesboro Beekeeper Wins Lifetime Award

By Will Tuell

You could say Jonesboro’s Andrew Dewey has the whole town abuzz following the Maine State Beekeepers Association (MSBA) annual meeting in Portland Oct. 18. Dewey, who has been pollinating the minds of aspiring beekeepers in Hancock and Washington counties for nearly 25 years, picked up the organization’s Lifetime Achievement award for his efforts as educator and mentor to enthusiasts around the state. 

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Friends of Liberty Hall seeks $50K Grant for Safety Improvements to Historic Machiasport Landmark

By Paul Sylvain

The Machiasport Selectboard on Oct. 27 voted 2-0, with one member recusing herself from the vote, to transfer $3,000 from the town’s Liberty Hall account to help pay an architect for services that could lead to a $50,000 preservation grant for the historic building.

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Machias Wastewater Treatment Plant Pump Gives up the Ghost on Halloween

Machiasport Flats Shut Down on Eve of Biggest Clam Tides of the Year

By Paul Sylvain

With clammers still fetching $4 a bushel and eagerly anticipating some of the biggest tides of the year, it looked like November was going to kick off to a profitable start for Machiasport’s mud flippers. 

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Post-Election Posterior Pats and Predictions

by Jonathan Reisman

I’m writing this as Halloween approaches and the election is less than a week away. I know how I’m voting, but I can’t say I have a lot of confidence in any poll or partisan analysis, including my own. I expect turnout and sharp differences between the Congressional Districts to determine the statewide outcome. 

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Rift Widens Between Jasper Head HOA, Machiasport Selectboard over Multiple Issues

By Paul Sylvain

As predictable as the changing seasons, the Jasper Head Homeowners Association (HOA) is once again at odds with Machiasport town officials over an assortment of issues mostly centered on Pettegrow Point Road in the town’s Bucks Harbor district.

The latest beef voiced by HOA residents Jodi and Ken Kearney at the Oct. 27 selectboard meeting concerned late-night brush clearing to expand a parking lot used by the town’s commercial fishermen accessing a beach near the town pier.

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Beals Voters Adopt Detailed Aquaculture Ordinance

By Nancy Beal

Two dozen lobster fishermen, their wives, and town officials gathered in the Beals town office meeting room Oct. 30 and, after an hour of discussion, unanimously approved a 28-page regulation titled Coastal Waters Aquaculture Ordinance (please see the Oct. 29 Machias Valley News Observer for a description of the contents).

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Fisheries Regulators Hold Off on New Regs -- for Now

Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank’s Lobster Stocks Decline 34%

By Will Tuell

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) decided against taking “immediate action” Oct. 30, following a subcommittee report showing a 34% decline in lobster stocks in the Gulf of Maine and Great Georges’ Bank (GOM/GBK) region.

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WA Raiders, ‘Guagus Knights Clinch State Volleyball Championships

By Phil Stuart

The 2025 fall school sports season ended over the weekend, and to nobody’s surprise, both Washington Academy and Narraguagus High School won state divisional volleyball championships.

Washington Academy played in a state volleyball championship for the 12th time and eked out a seat-squirming 3-2 win over a top-seeded York Wildcats volleyball team that shattered their hopes of a perfect second perfect season in a row. 

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‘From Away’ Boater Ignores ‘Stern’ Warnings from Harbor Master, Vessel Sinks in Bucks Harbor

By Paul Sylvain

Machiasport Harbor Master David Cale awoke on Oct. 29 with a headache that no amount of Extra Strength Tylenol could have relieved.

His headache was caused by a boat that sank at its Bucks Harbor mooring overnight, after its owner — Anthony Morascini, believed to be from Connecticut — ignored repeated written and verbal warnings from Cale about properly tying up his boat from its bow and not the vessel’s stern. 

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