These days, the only round-the-clock operations in Eastport are the nursing home and the assisted-living facility.
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But the need is especially acute in Eastport, where the unemployment rate stands at 11 percent and many of the clapboard homes are vacant.
The lone generator, dubbed TidGen, lies in Cobscook Bay off the town of Eastport, where its lawnmower-shaped blades churn as 20-foot tides rise and fall twice a day.
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Eastport had four times the current population of 1, 300.
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