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Lora Whelan

2018

Five questions to be on ballot

Maine voters will face five referendum questions on the Tuesday, November 6, ballot, including four bond issues, with two to assist the state's universities and community colleges, and a proposal to create a home-care program funded by a tax on higher incomes.

2018

New programs and trail systems part of park's expansion plan

New interpretive programs and an expansion of the trails system at the Roosevelt Campobello International Park have begun as part of a five-year plan to develop new and wider visitor experiences.

2018

College student finds success with support program

Eight years ago Vanessa Royer left during her first semester as a student at the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) because of personal issues. At the time she could not have foreseen herself back at UMM successfully starting on her sophomore year in the bachelor of science nursing degree program.

2018

Perry family of eight loses home to fire

Cody and Amanda Bulmer and their six children lost their home on Mahar Lane in Perry on the afternoon of Friday, September 7, when a fire that started in the garage quickly engulfed the attached house.

2018

Expanded nursing initiative eyed by new head of campus at UMM

An expanded nursing education initiative is just one of the program areas that Andy Egan, the new head of campus and vice president of academic affairs at the University of Maine at Machias, is readying to implement.

2018

Confederate flag resolution doesn’t fly

Eastport City Councillor Scott Emery threatened Councillor Hailley Bradbury that he would put a Confederate flag back on his boat, located in the Eastport breakwater's inner basin, if she didn't stop lecturing him on why the city council should support a resolution proposed by resident Kendall...

2018

Governor vetoes 43 more bills; DCF and opioid aid bills nixed

The end of the road has been reached for two bills of concern to Washington County residents, one to fund the Downeast Correctional Facility for one more year and one to create a federally-funded opioid response pilot project that would have connected those in need of substance use disorder...