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2020

Schools ponder basketball safety issues: Changes slated, if games allowed

Players and parents are looking forward to the delayed high school basketball season that can begin by mid-January, but if Washington County returns to a yellow designation under the state's color-coded Health Advisory System that classifies the relative risk of COVID-19 transmission, no games...

2020

Schools ponder basketball safety issues: Calais to bar remote students

During a heated meeting on December 16, the Calais School Committee revisited the issue of whether students who are learning remotely should be allowed to participate in winter sports.

2020

Resilient communities adapt to pandemic's impact this year

Looking back over the past year's front page headlines and photographs of The Quoddy Tides, the impact of COVID 19 is felt on almost every issue starting on March 13 when the top story about coronavirus preparations beginning in area was right above the news that county voters had upheld the...

2020

Neighbors are helped in spirit of season

Community members with budgets large and small, with roots in the county and from away, are digging deep to help their neighbors in need.

2020

Bills address safe water, elections and scalloping

Washington County legislators are introducing bills addressing a wide range of issues in the new legislative session, from grounding the scallop fleet on bad weather days and providing safe drinking water for tribal members, to decriminalizing individual drug possession and reforming elections...

2020

Aboriginal rights across border to be considered by court

A legal case concerning a man who shot an elk 10 years ago on the west coast could affect Peskotomuhkati rights in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment after hearing an appeal in Ottawa on October 8 against the acquittal of Richard Lee Desautel...

2020

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN greets the first snowfall from his Washington Street home in Eastport. (Don Dunbar photo)

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN greets the first snowfall from his Washington Street home in Eastport. (Don Dunbar photo)