On a sunny day in 2010, a boat full of dignitaries watched as Ocean Renewable Power Co.’s team lowered a tidal turbine into the waters near Eastport. “Gov. Baldacci, Congressman Michaud, Capt.

The experiment taking place in the 120-foot-deep Western Passage represents the latest advance in an emerging technology that seems to be moving forward in baby steps but could one day help meet the ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. If you trace the path of one electrical transmission line up the coast of Maine, through and around the state’s rocky outcroppings and over ...

Chris Gardner might be forgiven if he thought the sun rises with his job. But, as executive director of the Eastport Port Authority, at the easternmost edge of the Eastern Time Zone, you could argue ...

The Tides Institute & Museum in Eastport Maine (left) and other historic buildings along Water Street (Courtesy of the Tides Institute & Museum of Art) There is a second perspective of ...

“The arts” might seem a frill or nicety. In Eastport, Maine, they’ve been at the center of economic and civic plans and have helped the little city “punch above its weight.” Undertow by Anna Hepler at ...