Community & Events

A young man who has been battling autism for most of his life will be graduating on Wednesday, June 23, with the rest of the Class of 2012 at the Campobello Island Consolidated School.

Atlantic Rehabilitation and Nursing Center of Calais will close its doors on July 6. Corporate owner First Atlantic Healthcare CEO Kenneth Bowden confirmed the news on June 5. "We have started the official process of closure as of today.

Memorial Day falls on May 28 this year, and the federal holiday is an opportunity to remember the sacrifices of military veterans and to not take liberties in the U.S. for granted.

At least six teams will be participating in this year's Relay for Life on Grand Manan, which begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 1, at Grand Manan Community School and ends the next morning at 7 a.m.

Over the next two weeks 20 out of 100 Washington County teenagers will binge drink, but only 1% of the parents of those 20 teens know or understand that their child may be binge drinking, and only 5% believe that their child may have had a drink in the past 30 days.

April 15 of this year marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, "the unsinkable ship" that would go down on her maiden voyage.