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Lura Jackson

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

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

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

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.

2023

Spirit of generosity helps spread holiday cheer

The Downeast region is sometimes characterized by two extremes: scarcity and generosity. Those who have help those who don't, time and again, and through the charitable intentions of volunteers and community members the dark days of December become much brighter.

2023

Christmas cards brighten the holidays

December is the season of glad tidings, and for at least 100 years one of the best ways to send and receive them was through holiday cards. In the St. Croix Valley, the story of mailing holiday cards is intertwined with the burgeoning of Christmas as a holiday.