READY TO TAKE FLIGHT ON A SPRING DAY. This 12-foot painting on lightweight fabric was one of two Kite Works made by artist David Andree of Arkansas that he flew at Cony Park in Eastport on April 29.

HARNESS RACING was popular at the fall fairs held at the Calais racetrack, which boasted a grandstand. (Photo courtesy of ...

Area residents and local healthcare providers are raising concerns about the future of Calais Community Hospital, with nearly a dozen staff, with all but two being medical providers, leaving in about ...

With municipal budgets, particularly in coastal areas of Washington County, facing increasing strain, some residents and local officials are looking at how to add new revenue. Among the targets that ...

In the March 20, 2025, report to the Washington County Commission about the recently completed 2021 county budget audit, auditor Stephen Hopkins wrote of a number of significant accounting and ...

The journey that brought Lauren Remington, an early childhood educator at St. Croix Regional Technical Center in Calais, to Washington, D.C., to receive the Travelers Award for Teaching Excellence at ...

A CROWD watches as the sardine drops at midnight to celebrate the new year, during the Tides Institute & Museum of Art's Great Sardine and Maple Leaf New Year's Eve celebration in downtown Eastport.

The federally funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in northern Maine is facing a perfect storm of challenges this year, including the unexpected combining of two social services ...

Anyone who was using the internet back in the early 2000s remembers the slow and sometimes never‑ending wait for a website to load, or the website crashing for inexplicable reasons. A recent Radiolab ...

Grand Mananers were left reeling in the wake of another tragedy on Saturday, August 16, when a Piper PA31 on a medevac flight crashed short of the runway around 5 a.m. in fog. Pilot Klaus Sonnenberg, ...

LEADERS OF THE PACK. Taking a walk through downtown Eastport on a foggy spring day are Paula Bergeron of Good Dogma and five of the dogs she is training. (Edward French photo) ...

While it appears the Washington County government may have raised enough funds from municipalities to be able to pay its tax-anticipation note (TAN) to Machias Savings Bank by February 20, the meeting ...