Community & Events

The campaign to save the world's oldest surviving basketball court recently got a $25,000 boost from former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna and the Toronto Dominion Bank.

With suicides and deaths of despair rising significantly in Washington County over the past year, the need for community outreach is pronounced. To help meet that need, the first-ever Out of the Darkness Walk was held in Calais on Sunday, September 19.

The Pleasant Point community celebrated the grand opening of the new $21.5 million Sipayik Elementary School on Friday, September 10. Following delays over the past several years, the 47,875-square-foot building was finished earlier this year by the Sheridan Construction Corporation of Fairfield.

Whether the private ferry from Campobello to Deer Island runs this winter apparently depends on an American government decision over border restrictions.

Twenty years have passed since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four planes and used them to destroy the World Trade Center towers in New York City and a portion of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

The 33rd annual Eastport Seafood and Salmon Festival is set for the Labor Day weekend, with Saturday, September 4, and Sunday, September 5, chock a block with activities in the island city.