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The Washington County Emergency Management Agency, over a four-year period, has brought in about $1.2 million in grant monies that have implemented a narrow band conversion process that is required by the federal government to be completed by January 2013.

By more than a two-to-one margin, Lubec voters turned down the proposed expenditure of $965,107 for a new town garage and sand storage facility.

The Canadian and U.S. Coast Guard participated in two days of joint search and rescue exercises this week in the Passamaquoddy Bay area, with simulated rescues of eight missing kayakers and of seven people in a boat that had swamped.