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Lura Jackson

2022

Calais ends city loan program designed to develop business

After more than two decades, the City of Calais is ending its Economic Development Loan Fund, a program that oversaw the distribution and management of more than $2.8 million across 85 loans for Calais businesses.

2022

Area offered refuge for range of hermits

The number of people who have lived quietly outside of society in rural Washington and Charlotte counties is not easily determined. Due to the nature of hermits, few records or testaments remain of their existence.

2021

Stories of Civil War veterans rich with heroism

When thinking about civil wars, division is a primary theme that arises. Within the whole of the story of the Civil War in the U.S. and the fight between the Union and the Confederacy, however, are individual pieces bound by unifying threads.

2021

Captain America visits Edmunds boy

Not every five year old can claim that they've beaten cancer and Captain America at arm wrestling, but Jace Griffin can. The young resident of Edmunds and his family were recently treated to a special visit from actor Chris Evans while staying at Christopher's Haven in Boston, Mass.

2021

Cancer conference addresses living well during a pandemic

Maintaining health and wellness during a pandemic is a struggle for virtually everyone, but those with chronic health conditions are particularly challenged.

2021

Transformational opportunities highlighted at economic summit

After a year and a half that brought dramatic change to the country as a whole, Washington County is combining its time honed ability to harness its resources with new technological developments to effectively adapt to a shifting future.

2021

Rare cotton-candy blue lobster caught

A lobster with an unusual cotton candy blue coloration pattern was caught in Passamaquoddy Bay off the coast of Perry on Tuesday, October 19. Lobsterman Eric Francis of Pleasant Point made the catch while aboard the boat Bug Zappah.