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Lora Whelan

2013

Therapy animals give care to children, seniors

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and Pitot Tube Nelson may be one of the smallest. A four-year-old white Pomeranian dog weighing four pounds on a heavy day, Pitot has spent the last three years on Tuesdays listening to children read him stories and visiting patients in hospitals.

2013

Calais shooting places focus on domestic abuse

The tragedy of domestic violence hit home in Washington County on July 3 when a 26-year-old Calais man shot 21-year-old Megan Sherrard, the mother of his child, and the infant boy.

2013

Opiate misuse leads to tools for prevention

Imagine a man or woman who has worked in the logging or fisheries industry for years. They have injured themselves or developed chronic work-related pain from repeated hard physical work.

2013

Calais city council wrestles with hole in school’s budget

It was a tense special meeting held by the Calais City Council on the evening of June 20. The council was in the unenviable position of having to come up with a fiscal year 2014 municipal budget that would keep the mill rate close to its current level of 23.

2013

Artistic Inspiration Downeast

Lobster gear sink rope that spent its short lifespan attached to lobster traps belonging to Trescott fisherman Channon Jones has found new life in New York City. His pot warp was among the 1.4 million feet of recycled lobster trap line collected for and used by Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Orly Genger.

2013

Artistic Inspiration Downeast Artist earns honor

Artist Richard Van Buren was walking between his studio and house in Perry in late winter when his phone rang. On the phone was his art dealer. Van Buren relates, "He said, 'Where are you right now?'"

2013

Calais confronting $786,000 hike in school local share

AOS #77 Superintendent Jim Underwood did not mince words about the state of the Calais school budget while attending what was most likely his last meeting with the Calais School Committee on the evening of June 4.