2024
Curling club preserves welcoming legacy
While the curling season is officially winding down, one thing is decidedly not: the long-standing legacy of the St. Stephen curling club in promoting cross-border participation.
Lura Jackson
2024
Recollections of past winters stir warm memories
Winter around Passamaquoddy Bay has changed a lot over the past several decades, as any longtime resident of the area will tell you. The milder weather, combined with changing demographics and interests, has led to many differences in how communities celebrate -- or cope with -- the season.
2024
Edmunds team wins first place in state robotics championship
Competing with some of the brightest young engineers in the state, a team of students from Washington County emerged victorious in the First Lego League State Championship over the weekend of February 3 to 4.
2024
Edmunds school students build own outdoor classroom
In collaboration with the Downeast Coastal Conservancy (DCC), the students and staff at Edmunds Consolidated School (ECS) have developed their first outdoor classroom. Consisting of a trail that winds through an upload conifer forest and travels 500 feet along the Dennys River...
2024
Mitigation plans being eyed after storms
“For all at last return to the sea,” wrote Rachel Carson, though the words may be little comfort to Maine's coastal residents watching the effects of the recent back to back storms that brought some of the worst flooding in the state's history.
2024
Illegal marijuana farm could be linked to statewide problem
The raid of an illegal marijuana farm in Machias on December 14, which netted 2,600 plants and saw the arrest of three men, all of whom appear to be foreign nationals, may be linked with a greater statewide problem. According to a leaked memo initially distributed within the U.S.
2024
Higher costs and greater need hit food and fuel funds
Area food and fuel funds are facing unprecedented challenges in the wake of decreased government assistance, rising inflation and costs and increased need.