Week of December 26, 2016

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Eastport, ME — December 15, 2016 — Despite some economic development and civic boosterism in recent years, Eastport has experienced declines in population and local services that, for about a decade, forced local residents to travel 27 miles to Calais to get prescription medications. That changed in 2014 when Nigerian immigrant Ben Okafor opened Eastport Family Pharmacy on Water Street. Linda Coan O’Kresik | BDN