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A SURE SIGN OF SPRING. A young lamb, one of triplets, peers out from its pen at Shofar Farms in Perry, which raises the Icelandic sheep. (Edward French photo) ...

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 p ...

A legislative bill to increase state funding for county jails received strong support from Washington County legislators during a hearing on March 18 before the Criminal Justice and Public Safety ...

In 1991 when the McCurdy Smokehouse in Lubec closed, it was the "last of the last" commercial herring smokehouses in the country. For 100 years it was a place where herring were smoked, packaged and ...

A proposed underwater data center has gained little traction since its backer submitted a request to move ahead in February, and many of those near its proposed location in Western Passage off Moose ...

SCALING SHINGLES into bins after they’ve been cut and edged is Philip Gardner. (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 ...

Efforts to build trust in the drinking water quality among community members at Sipayik are continuing, with the Passamaquoddy tribal government now funding the monitoring of the water quality ...

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 ...