2020
Neighbors are helped in spirit of season
Community members with budgets large and small, with roots in the county and from away, are digging deep to help their neighbors in need.
Lora Whelan
2020
Resilient communities adapt to pandemic's impact this year
Looking back over the past year's front page headlines and photographs of The Quoddy Tides, the impact of COVID 19 is felt on almost every issue starting on March 13 when the top story about coronavirus preparations beginning in area was right above the news that county voters had upheld the...
2020
Earthquake hits as year goes out with a bang
On Wednesday, December 9, residents way Downeast may have heard and felt the telltale rumblings of a series of small earthquakes at 5:45 and 7:31 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. According to preliminary data collected by the United States Geological Survey, the earthquakes registered at 3.0 on the Richter...
2020
Great-grandmother apple tree grows in Lubec
Tucked away from view at the Red Point Park in Lubec is what apple enthusiasts call a "great-grandmother tree." Her origin is most likely linked to the cellar hole right next door and the farm that was at one time owned by the A. Knight family.
2020
Greetings of love sung across river
Normally around this time Ann Margaret Paul drives her mother, Passamaquoddy Elder Maggie Paul, down from the St. Mary's First Nation near Fredericton for a visit with family and friends at Sipayik.
2020
Perry man helps preserve traditional land access
In 1968 Walt Loring of Perry was living in Texas. He was a young man branching out after growing up Downeast, but a call from his father set the stage for a lifelong effort to preserve his family's land Downeast.
2020
PPP blunts economic impact of pandemic
The pandemic is having an effect on the Washington County economy but was blunted by the CARES Act's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). In addition, because one quarter of the population receives Social Security benefits of one kind or another, the economy has been more stable than might be...