The plein air landscapes of Maine artist Robin Rier will be featured at the Lubec Landmarks Mulholland Market Gallery from August 16-29. The opening reception, free and open to all, will be Saturday, August 19 from 5-7p.m. The Gallery is located on Water Street in Lubec.

Barbara Colbeth Huntley, age 88, went to be with her Lord and Savior and her heavenly family on July 25, 2017. She was born April 4, 1929, at home in Bucks Harbor, daughter of the late Leland C. Colbeth and Jeanette (Hooper) Colbeth.  She was a graduate of Washington Academy and was very proud that she attained the distinction of being Valedictorian of her class. After graduation, she moved for a short period of time to Portland to work and then moved back home where she rekindled a friendship with the man who became her loving husband (Richard Clark Huntley) of 57 years.

by  V. Paul Reynolds

As former Maine deer biologist Gerry Lavigne reported recently in the SAM News, there has been a flurry of media coverage purporting that Maine’s Eastern coyote is getting larger and taking on more wolf-like characteristics. On TV, Bill Green’s Outdoors featured a segment and the Portland Press Herald carried a story by Diedre Fleming.

Is it true? Is our coyote, which started showing up in the 1940s, evolving into a new canid, one that is worthy of the new, catchy name, Coywolf?

by Phil Stuart

Eastport native Robert Ashby of Brunswick set a Washington County record for most wins at any one road race as he won the 47th Annual Charles E. Davis Memorial Perry to Eastport 7-mile road race for the twelfth time, breaking Cindy Hatch’s record of 11 wins at the Cutler Harbor 5k. Three days later, Hatch would equal Ashby’s 12 wins as she won the Cutler event for the twelfth time.

The Eastport Pirate Festival committee has announced that the easternmost city in the USA will once again host the largest Pirate Festival in Northern New England and Atlantic Canada. Starting the Friday after Labor Day and continuing through Sunday, your favorite pirate characters will once again descend on Eastport for a weekend of swashbuckling fun.

Axiom Education & Training Center in Machias will offer two Anime Drawing Classes with Mary Marble beginning Saturday, August 5 and running through September 2, with a beginners’ class in the morning from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and an advanced afternoon class from 1:30-3 p.m. 

Producing “The Way Downeast Calendar” is a year round pursuit. New locations are needed to showcase Downeast Maine in all seasons. It also means making tough choices when selecting only 12 photos from thousands, in order to depict the months of the year.

But the couple who produce this calendar, Brenda and Alan Jepson of South Addison, had no difficulty selecting a photo of a beach in South Addison for the month of August in their newest calendar.

Emma Redimarker leads a break in summer high school league action at UMM.

Penetration inside by Lady Knight guard Lanie Perry.

With two defenders on her, Kaci Alley makes a nice dish pass to a teammate.