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2021

Businesses survive pandemic’s challenges: Federal aid, staycations help

Government assistance and New Brunswickers taking vacations in their own province helped Charlotte County businesses survive 2020 and the COVID 19 pandemic. They are, as the Bee Gees put it, "Stayin' Alive," hoping that vaccines will allow life to return closer to normal.

2021

Area healthcare facilities begin phase 1 of COVID-19 vaccinations

The first phase of COVID 19 vaccinations has begun in Washington County. Robert Long, the communications director for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), explains that Maine is following federal recommendations for vaccination planning.

2021

MANY PEOPLE CELEBRATED N

MANY PEOPLE CELEBRATED N

MANY PEOPLE CELEBRATED New Year's Eve in Eastport by watching the lit-up sardine parading through the city on top of an Eastport fire truck, with lit-up maple on the back. (Edward French photo)

2021

A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. Jasmine Boone-Batchelder, who works at the Eastport Memorial Nursing Home, is given a COVID-19 vaccination shot by Christine Cattan of Bangor Drug Company. All of the residents and many of the staff at the nursing home were immunized on December 30. (Edward

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...