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2019

Driver acts like law enforcement officer and chases vehicles

Some drivers on the Charlotte Road near the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge headquarters entrance, and more recently on the Golding and Lake roads in Robbinston and Perry, have reported incidents of vehicle harassment with a driver who in at least one instance appeared to be impersonating a...

2019

Demand high at food pantries

Food pantries in Washington and Charlotte counties are dependent upon the generosity of volunteers as well as financial patrons.

2019

Bills to target prison, opioids and funds to towns

Bills submitted by Washington County legislators would reopen the Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF) in Bucks Harbor, restore the state's revenue sharing to municipalities to 5%, help fight the state's opioid crisis and assist wild blueberry growers, along with addressing many other measures.

2019

THE GREAT SARDINE is lowered at midnight on New Year’s Eve at Bank Square in Eastport. (Don Dunbar photo)

THE GREAT SARDINE

THE GREAT SARDINE is lowered at midnight on New Year’s Eve at Bank Square in Eastport. (Don Dunbar photo)

2019

LET IT SNOW! Scallop draggers work through a snow squall in Johnson Bay, Lubec. (Chessie Crowe photo)

LET IT SNOW

LET IT SNOW! Scallop draggers work through a snow squall in Johnson Bay, Lubec. (Chessie Crowe photo)

2018

UMM professor's lawsuit dismissed

A University of Maine at Machias economics professor is appealing a decision by a federal judge to dismiss his lawsuit against the university and its faculty union for infringing on his First Amendment rights.

2018

Community spirit builds window inserts to lower costs for heating

The closure of all of the Pennamaquan River to scallop dragging because of the mooring field off the Pembroke boat landing on Hersey Neck has upset some scallop fishermen who would like to drag in that area.