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Voters in St. Stephen and area stuck with a familiar face to lead them on their new municipal adventure. The Town of St. Stephen's current mayor, Allan MacEachern, took 1,071 votes in special elections on November 28, handily beating the 378 votes for C.

Efforts to restore the alewife runs on the St. Croix River, which once supported one of the largest runs of alewives in the northeastern U.S.

After 26 years of caring for many of the region's beloved pets, Dr. Bill Dewar of the Calais Veterinary Clinic is retiring and closing the practice in December. It was a hard decision, he says, and took over a year to come to.

Dennysville residents considered the pros and cons of deorganization of the town into one of the state's 429 unorganized territories during a public meeting on Wednesday night, October 19.

It was a packed house at the Columbia Falls select board meeting on October 24, as representatives for the Flagpole of Freedom Park (FFP) attended for the first time. Plans for the park were first unveiled in March.

While many sources of public drinking water in Washington County do not yet have test results for harmful chemicals known as PFAS, one location that has been tested does have elevated levels of the so-called "forever chemicals.