Community & Events

Area long-term care facility administrators report their residents and staff are in good spirits despite the worldwide pandemic that has made things challenging.

"We owe this effort for our first responders and healthcare workers here in Washington County," says Rep. Robert Alley of Beals in responding to a request made by a constituent to see if he could help...

Some Grand Manan residents have been using social media to encourage neighbors and raise spirits as the COVID‐19 isolation continues. With children out of school and in need of some entertainment, people are thinking of ways to create fun at a safe distance.

Closures and restrictions implemented to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have hit local shellfish harvesters particularly hard.

With the COVID‑19 pandemic upending normal routines of homelife and work, classrooms and more, Downeast residents are coming up with new ways to socialize, work, learn and see the special in the everyday.

There were two major takeaways from the presentations given during Shellfish Focus Day at the Maine Fishermen's Forum, held March 5 at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. The first is that climate change has shifted the industry and that further shifts can be expected.