By Nancy Beal

For at least a decade, an eight-unit housing complex located north of Greenwood Cemetery on Jonesport’s eastern side that used to house personnel from the Jonesport Coast Guard base has stood empty, after the servicemen and their families moved to a complex in Harrington. Recently, the (federal) General Services Administration (GSA), which handles the purchase and sale of government property, asked the town of Jonesport if it was interested in buying the abandoned group of houses and invited the town to make an offer if it was.