PRINCETON — The Passamaquoddy Tribe has signed a letter of intent with a medical marijuana management and consulting company to build a cultivation facility in northeastern Maine. The Portland Press Herald reports Monarch America Inc. announced last week it plans to design and manage a cutting edge marijuana cultivation facility in an existing 35,000-square-foot building […]
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Obama sends 2 Cabinet secretaries to tour Passamaquoddy school
PLEASANT POINT — President Barack Obama’s administration dispatched a pair of Cabinet secretaries to the easternmost region of the U.S. on Monday to get a firsthand look at a Passamaquoddy Tribe school that has been targeted for replacement. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan toured the K-8 Beatrice Rafferty School […]
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Former official pleads not guilty to embezzling $20,000 from Passamaquoddy Tribe
BANGOR — The man accused of stealing $20,000 from the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point entered not guilty pleas Monday to four federal charges of theft and embezzlement. Charles Fourcloud, 59, is accused of embezzling the funds between May and August 2013 when he worked as finance director for the Washington County tribe and oversaw […]
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Tribal official fighting elver poaching charges in New York
For the past several years, there has been a simmering dispute — sometimes boiling — between Maine state officials and the Passamaquoddy Tribe over the elver fishery. The state, citing concerns about the number of American eels, has sought to limit the tribe’s ability to issue licenses to its members for fishing elvers, or baby […]
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Tribe hopes to build bottled water plant in Maine
INDIAN TOWNSHIP (AP) — Tucked in the nation’s northeastern corner, the Passamaquoddy tribe’s ancestral land remains as it was centuries ago: Rugged and teeming with natural beauty and wildlife. Snow-covered in winter, springtime warmth reveals a rolling landscape, lakes and ponds — and dozens of bubbling springs. But there is an ugly reality inside this […]