Politics & Government

Washington County legislators are revisiting some issues that they previously have been thwarted in getting enacted by the legislature, including increasing rural law enforcement coverage and having a separate district attorney for the county.

This is the largest increase in my tenure as chair of the county budget advisory committee," said Lewis Pinkham, who has served on the committee for 24 years.

Former President Donald Trump won a decisive victory in a deeply divided country in the November 5 U.S. presidential election, after some states that went for President Biden in 2020 turned red, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia.

Voter turnout is expected to be high in the U.S. election on Tuesday, November 5, with many considering the race for president one of the most consequential in many decades.

Charlotte County bucked the trend in the New Brunswick provincial general election on October 21. Voters in both Saint Croix and Fundy The Isles Saint John Lorneville stuck with the Progressive Conservatives even as the party lost seats across the province to the Liberals under leader Susan Holt.

All seven candidates running in the Saint Croix riding in the October 21 provincial general election say Campobello Island needs a year round ferry. They agree that law courts should return to Charlotte County and that the area faces issues with homelessness, drugs, crime and healthcare.