LOOK, MA, NO HANDS
LOOK, MA, NO HANDS! Skating was among the outdoor activities enjoyed during the Winter Sports and Fun Day sponsored by Stronghearts at the Pottle Tree Farm in Perry on February 10. (Don Dunbar photo)
February 22, 2018
Front Page Stories
Year-round ferry eyed for Campobello
Reversing the declining population of Campobello was only one of the issues brought up during a round-table discussion at the opening meeting of the newly established Year-Round Ferry Development Committee, held at a private residence on February 11.
Service honors four chaplains
As "Taps" played at the Balsam Valley Chapel in Jonesboro on February 11 to honor the four chaplains, Rodney Sienkiewicz saluted. His father Henry had been a civilian contractor aboard the USAT Dorchester when it was torpedoed by a German submarine about 80 miles off the coast of Greenland.
Legality of closure challenged
The state's attorney general, the Washington County commissioners and the county's legislators are challenging in court the unilateral decision by Governor LePage and the Department of Corrections (DOC) to close the Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF) without warning on the morning of February 9.
DCF offered ‘true corrections’
In a surprise pre-dawn prison takeover shortly after 4 a.m.
Calais council firm in opposition to county budget plan
The Washington County budget plan -- which would increase the budget by approximately $530,000 while adding four deputies -- was addressed with consternation by the Calais City Council at a meeting on February 8.
FACING AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
FACING AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE, Steven Pressley II of Whiting, who has worked for 13 years as a correctional officer at the Downeast Correctional Facility that was closed on February 9, is among the 39 staff being laid off. He speaks with pride about how the minimum-security prison has helped inmates