Community & Events

Two Passamaquoddy teenagers from Pleasant Point have been chosen to attend the 2016 Inter-Tribal Youth Climate Leadership Congress (ITYCLC) from July 5 through July 12 in Shepardstown, Va.

Never has Baileyville Police Chief Bob Fitzsimmons felt such a pressing need for community members all over Washington County to get involved in helping to battle the escalating heroin and substance abuse problems the county is facing.

Two Deer Island natives living in Fort McMurray, Alberta, are safe and consider themselves lucky that they were not one of the hundreds of families who lost their homes in the conflagration.

About 170 people gathered on May 5 at the Grand Manan school for a Community Policing Forum, a joint effort between the village and RCMP prompted in part by residents' concern about drug abuse.

Approximately 400 area residents came together as a community in the Gardner Gymnasium at Washington Academy on Saturday evening, April 9, to listen to a 17-member panel explain the seriousness of the drug abuse problem in Washington County and to attempt to find solutions to the issue.

The decision by Whiting residents to make the town's ordinance governing wind turbines more restrictive has apparently not caused the wind energy company that has been eyeing a possible project in the area since 2010 to drop its plans.