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After six and a half years as Lubec town administrator, John Sutherland has decided it is time for a change. Contingent on final approval by the Lincoln Town Council, set to vote on December 12, he will move to Penobscot County.

At a special town meeting held the evening of December 5, Whiting residents handily approved having the selectmen adopt a new water-level ordinance. The two articles voted upon were to direct the board of selectmen to exercise its home rule...

The City of Calais is challenging the recently proposed Washington County budget, which increases the city's expected contribution by over 5% to $288,000. The discussion over how the city will proceed was the primary topic at a city council meeting held on November 17.

"We are 35,000 people living in a 3,400 square-mile area, and we, as the commissioners, do not take the budget process lightly," stated Chris Gardner, chairman of the Washington County commissioners, prior to the board's final review and acceptance of the proposed operating budget for 2017.

A special archery hunt to reduce the deer herd in Eastport will be held during the last two weeks of December this year, after the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) Advisory Council approved the hunt at a meeting on November 21.

Concerns are afoot in Whiting about the future of its fire suppression system that exists at the Mill Pond dam, with residents and property owners in Whiting, Trescott and parts of Edmunds potentially affected if the dam were to be altered or removed as part of a proposed project undertaken by...