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 ...

Fifteen‑year‑old Cole Brown was up on a ladder building a shed when he heard a clamor coming from the alders behind him. He'd been hearing noises coming from the woods for hours, but this was a noise ...

A KEY EMPLOYER for Irish immigrants in the area was the Pembroke Iron Works, built on the Pennamaquan River in 1828 and at one point producing 5,000 tons of iron goods a year until it burned down on ...

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 ...

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 ...

LET IT SNOW! Clearing out a neighbor’s drive on Key Street in Eastport following the New Year’s Day snowstorm is Alden Chandler, as sea smoke rises on the bay in the background. (Edward French photo) ...

On January 21, the Maine legislature's Committee on State and Local Government held a hearing regarding LD 2009, a bill sponsored by Senator Marianne Moore of Calais that would allow political ...

AND THEY’RE OFF! Many youngsters took part in the Easter egg hunt held at Maritime Munchkins, a daycare center in Charlotte, on April 4. See more Easter egg hunt photos in this issue. (Edward French ...

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 ...

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, ...

THE LAST SHINGLE MILL in Washington County is run by Philip Gardner in Halls Mills, Whiting. The ’64 Chevrolet self-loader logging truck is used to hoist cedar logs into the mill. (Edward French photo ...

THE LAST SHINGLE MILL in Washington County is run by Philip Gardner in Halls Mills, Whiting. The ’64 Chevrolet self-loader logging truck is used to hoist cedar logs into the mill. (Edward French photo ...