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IN JOYFUL CELEBRATION over the restoring of the alewife run to most of the St. Croix River watershed, all attending the homecoming ceremony at the Grand Falls dam on June 5 joined in a Passamaquoddy round dance, as Denise Altvater, Vera Francis and others drummed and sang. (Edward French photo)
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RUNNERS TAKE OFF at the starting line of the 2013 Down East Hospice Volunteers of Washington County fund-raising race on June 1 in Pembroke. (Don Dunbar photo)
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by Edward French |
Alewives were welcomed home to the St. Croix River watershed, after a 19-year absence from 98% of their historic spawning grounds, during a ceremony at the Grand Falls dam on June 5. The St. Croix River Herring Homecoming was hosted by the Passamaquoddy Tribe to mark the return of alewives and to honor the tribes, federal agencies and non‑governmental organizations that participated in the effort to restore the run. |
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| Lines redrawn for legislative districts in area |
| by Edward French |
The lines for Maine House and Senate districts are being redrawn, with the legislature having approved the new district lines that were recommended by a bipartisan Apportionment Commission. |
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| Calais confronting $786,000 hike in school local share |
| by Lora Whelan |
AOS #77 Superintendent Jim Underwood did not mince words about the state of the Calais school budget while attending what was most likely his last meeting with the Calais School Committee on the evening of June 4. "We have cut and cut," he told the committee, the city councillors present and the public. "I have warned everyone that in not too long we would have a $400,000 shortfall, and it's here." |
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| Artistic Inspiration Downeast |
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| by Lora Whelan |
Lobster gear sink rope that spent its short lifespan attached to lobster traps belonging to Trescott fisherman Channon Jones has found new life in New York City. His pot warp was among the 1.4 million feet of recycled lobster trap line collected for and used by Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Orly Genger in her sculpture installation located in Madison Square Park. Named "Red, Yellow and Blue," the installation is made of crocheted rope formed into three-dimensional waves, walls and other shapes that spread over the five‑acre public garden.
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| Artist earns honor |
| by Lora Whelan |
Artist Richard Van Buren was walking between his studio and house in Perry in late winter when his phone rang. On the phone was his art dealer. Van Buren relates, "He said, 'Where are you right now?'" Van Buren looked around at the heaps of snow and replied, "I'm standing in a snow bank, why?" And right then and there an art career that has spanned both coasts and over the last decade in Maine was recognized in a way that most artists only dream of. Van Buren learned that he was the recipient of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award of 2013.
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