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Several land conservation proposals in Washington County will be considered by the Land for Maine's Future Board at a meeting scheduled for July 14. The meeting will be held at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole at 1:30 p.m.

The future looked bleak for Downeast Community Hospital (DECH) on June 25 when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) terminated the hospital's eligibility for federal funding, with an effective date of July 10.

The closure of all of the southwest New Brunswick coastline and almost all of eastern Maine to the harvesting of shellfish has been hitting clam diggers hard this year.

The afternoon of June 26 was a time for grieving for the residents of Campobello, as they watched the doors to the only banking facility on the island closed for good.