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Two snowy owls in distress, one in Eastport and one in Baileyville, were rescued the week of November 22 and taken to an avian rehabilitation organization. So far one has survived and is on the mend and one has not.

By more than a two-to-one margin, Whiting voters approved plans for taking ownership, including maintenance obligations, of the Mill Pond dam. The vote took place during a special town meeting held November 29 at the town office; it attracted 55 registered voters.

Whiting voters will be asked to determine the fate of the Whiting Mill Pond in a special town meeting to be held Monday, November 29, in the Whiting Town Hall at 6 p.m.

The Passamaquoddy tribal government at Sipayik is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Inspector General concerning how millions of dollars in federal funds were spent on pay increases for tribal government employees during the first year of the pandemic.

Anybody looking to buy land on Campobello Island should check out the provincial Department of Transportation and Infrastructure's list of surplus properties. On Monday, November 8, the department opened online bidding for 25 properties with the closing date of Monday, November 29.

When thinking about civil wars, division is a primary theme that arises. Within the whole of the story of the Civil War in the U.S. and the fight between the Union and the Confederacy, however, are individual pieces bound by unifying threads.