Community & Events

Not every five year old can claim that they've beaten cancer and Captain America at arm wrestling, but Jace Griffin can. The young resident of Edmunds and his family were recently treated to a special visit from actor Chris Evans while staying at Christopher's Haven in Boston, Mass.

A lobster with an unusual cotton candy blue coloration pattern was caught in Passamaquoddy Bay off the coast of Perry on Tuesday, October 19. Lobsterman Eric Francis of Pleasant Point made the catch while aboard the boat Bug Zappah.

Aboriginals and "settler" Canadians need to work together on a new national narrative, says Judith Moses, deputy prolocutor of the Anglican Church of Canada and vice chair of St. Stephen's University (SSU).

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.