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2023

County emergency medical system nearing crisis

The new year rang in with sirens for two people last week on an icy, lonely stretch of road in western Washington County. The first person slipped and fell, soon becoming hypothermic.

2023

Bill proposals range from offshore wind to child welfare issues

Washington County legislators are sponsoring bills that cover a wide range of issues, from banning offshore wind turbines in the state, to healthcare and child welfare concerns, to not allowing those younger than the age of 5 to shoot a deer.

2023

POSING FOR A SELFIE with the sardine during the 18th Great Sardine & Maple Leaf New Year's Eve celebration in Eastport are Mike Stewart and Amy Ray of Eastport. The annual event is organized

POSING FOR A SELFIE

POSING FOR A SELFIE with the sardine during the 18th Great Sardine & Maple Leaf New Year's Eve celebration in Eastport are Mike Stewart and Amy Ray of Eastport. The annual event is organized by the Tides Institute & Museum of Art. (Don Dunbar photo)

2023

LENDING A HELPING HAND. U.S. Coast Guard personnel from Station Eastport help to carry in produce from the Good Shepherd Food Bank to the Labor of Love Food Pantry in Eastport, one of a numb

LENDING A HELPING HAND

LENDING A HELPING HAND. U.S. Coast Guard personnel from Station Eastport help to carry in produce from the Good Shepherd Food Bank to the Labor of Love Food Pantry in Eastport, one of a number of food pantries and fuel funds that are working to meet the pressing needs

2022

Woodland mill strike averted with new vote

Over 130 union workers at the Woodland Pulp mill will not be going on strike after all, following a vote to accept a new offer made by the company.

2022

Jonesboro biomass plant set to restart operations

The idle Jonesboro biomass plant is expected to restart in February or March of the coming year, following the sale of the plant, along with six other biomass plants in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, under an agreement approved by a bankruptcy court judge on November 23.

2022

Island-based medevac service ends due to new rules

‘I hope I'm not the first one who dies.’ One Grand Manan resident voiced what may be on the minds of more than a few islanders with the failure of New Brunswick's government to renew Atlantic Charters' medevac contract through Ambulance New Brunswick (ANB).