EASTPORT — New York has its celebrated ball drop to usher in the new year, but Eastport has its giant sardine.
In celebration of the eastern Maine city’s famed sardine canning and fishing history, organizers of Eastport’s seventh annual Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop will lower an 8-foot-long wooden sardine from a downtown building at midnight.
The event also features a wooden maple leaf that will be lowered an hour earlier in recognition of neighboring Canada, where 2012 arrives an hour earlier because it’s in the Atlantic time zone.
Presque Isle will also be ringing in the new year with a tradition of its own.
At midnight, the city will raise a 6-foot galvanized steel star with more than 1,000 lights in recognition of the city’s nickname, the Star City.
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