Local News

Washington County has experienced a 50% drop in crime from 1995 to 2022, according to statistics collected by the Maine Department of Public Safety and issued every year in an annual Maine Crime Report.

“I fought this war every day for the last 54 years. Now I've finally seen for myself that the war is actually over,” says Vietnam veteran Lou Pepi, a part-time Whiting resident who returned last March for an emotional trip back to where he had fought and where his close friends had died.

Grand Mananers held a protest on Friday, May 19, over the loss of island air service Atlantic Charters as medevac provider and the reliance on mainland aircraft that has ensued. New Transport Canada regulations left the former with too few pilots to meet duty time limits.

Eastport City Manager Kate Devonshire was terminated by the city council following a lengthy executive session during the May 10 council meeting. When they returned to open session, the councillors at first seemed reluctant to speak.

Dennysville residents voted not to continue with the process to deorganize the town, following a discussion with representatives from the state and county at a May 4 meeting.

Representatives of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point have formally requested the approval of a proposed airplane parts manufacturing and maintenance facility, on land annexed by the tribe from the Town of Perry.