Community & Events

Representatives from local organizations dedicated to empowering the impoverished met on Tuesday, May 24, at the Immaculate Conception Church in Calais to share and discuss resources for combatting poverty in the eastern Maine region.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.