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Community & Events

2017

Proposed funding cuts concern libraries in area

Inter-library loan, WiFi and high-speed broadband access, the MaineInfoNet database and Maine Download Library and services for the those with disabilities or the home-bound, such as talking books, descriptive videos, large print, books-by-mail and more, are library services that are being...

2017

Calais panel eyes potential to open new nursing home

The prospect of reopening a nursing home in Calais is inching forward, although how to obtain the rights to the limited number of beds in the state is still a major stumbling block.

2017

Resources available to aid with opioid recovery

If statistics were genuinely sobering, Washington County would be a clean-living place. Unfortunately, it requires more than just numbers to create sobriety --and the recently released statistics from Dr.

2017

March for Science held on Earth Day

On Earth Day, April 22, despite a cold drizzle, 70 people including scientists, University of Maine at Machias (UMM) students and faculty and local activists gathered at UMM's Science Building for the March for Science.

2017

Local walk honors fallen heroes

On Saturday morning, April 8, a group of 40 walkers, led by color bearers conveying Maine's state flag and the American flag, hiked a two and a half mile route north from Eastport City Hall along Water Street, up Clark Street to Hillside Cemetery and through the South

2017

Dark Harbour eyed as site for $60 million wind farm proposal

About 60 people attended a public meeting at the Grand Manan school on April 5 with representatives of Innergex, a Longueuil, Quebec-based company, that is proposing a wind farm at Dark Harbour on the western side of the island.

2017

LGBTQ conference aims for compassion, equity

Wayne Maines is the father of identical twins: a boy and a girl. They are young adults now, navigating their paths toward college and careers, but it hasn't been an easy path for any of them. The twins were born as boys, Wyatt and Jonas. At age 2, Wyatt insisted that she was a girl.