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LET IT SNOW! Area residents, like this man in Calais, have been snowblowing, plowing and shoveling their way through the snowstorms that blanketed the area during Valentine’s week. Eastport received 32.5" of snow during the February 13-14 blizzard and 81.3" for the month, as of

HOLLY PRESTON of the Shead Tigerettes takes a shot from outside to score her 1,000th point in high school basketball on January 31. The senior co-captain is a strong leader for the team, which is headed to the Bangor tournament in second place in Class D North. (Don Dunbar

MAKING VALENTINES for the February 14 holiday at an Eastport Arts Center card-making party is five-year-old Raven Berry of East Machias. (Robin Farrin photo) Subscribe to Quoddy Tides Rates:$35 a year in Washington County, Maine (tax included) $42 a year in Maine, but outside of Washington (tax included) $42

WELL OVER HALF A MILLION people took part in the Women’s March on Washington on January 21. (Tara Kierstead photo)

DAVID MOSES BRIDGES works on the frame of an 18-foot birchbark coastal hunting canoe at Sipayik in 2003. Bridges, who passed away on January 20, was instrumental in teaching others the art of building Passamaquoddy birchbark canoes, a skill that was nearly lost. (Edward French photo) Subscribe to Quoddy Tides

WORKING TO SECURE skiffs at the floats in Broad Cove, Eastport, during high winds gusting up to 55 mph on Wednesday, January 11, is Scott MacNichol. (Edward French photo)