February 2014

Students at Woodland Jr./Sr. High School enjoyed an abbreviated Winter Carnival last week due to the Nor’easter. Student Council members and faculty followed through with planned activities while Student Council Adviser, Jeanne Graceffa was out with health problems. Left,  students participate in the wheeled chair race and the quarter drop.

This week Troop J responded to 133 calls for service. The following are noteworthy complaints:

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Trooper Jeffrey Taylor responded to a theft in Sullivan. It was reported that money was taken from the residence. Investigation continues.

From February 7 through February 16 the Baileyville Police Department answered 42 calls for service and handled incidents of accidents, animal control complaint, civil assist, burglary, theft and power lines down.

Bill would benefit unemployed veterans, 

Maine Maritime Academy

ELLSWORTH, Maine – Matthew Foster is a Republican candidate for District Attorney for Washington and Hancock Counties.

By Jayna Smith

Brianna Jack, daughter of Paul and Billie Jack of Baileyville, shows her notification letter which recognizes her as a Spirit of Community Award winner.  As part of the award, Brianna has won $1,000 and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. with the other 101 state and District of Columbia honorees.

By Lura Jackson

The Bank of Maine employees in Calais are doing an awareness for rare disease day on Friday, February 28. Working on the project are (front) Lana Faulkner and Houston Ross and (back, left to right) Diane Hunnewell, Keitha Smith, Meghen Wilcox and Sonya DePriest. (Photo by Dorothy Johnson).

MACHIAS, Maine – The University of Maine at Machias will host art historian Dr. Justin Wolff on Thursday, March 6, as part of its Libra Landscape Speaker Series. Dr. Wolff will give a lecture titled “Experience, Allegory, and the Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Romantic Landscapes” beginning at 7 p.m. in room 102 of the Science Building at UMM. The talk is free and open to the public.

By Susan Gardner

Nino, a student at Beatrice Rafferty Elementary, who's heart is as big as his smile, enjoys sliding among the Stronghearts ice sculptures during the Twelfth Annual Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day. (Photo by Susan Gardner)

By Gwen Clark

By Jayna Smith

On Wednesday, February 26th, Good Shepherd Food Bank’s Food Mobile from Auburn will visit Calais.  This is the first time the Food Mobile has visited the area.  It will offer food items to anyone in need from the downeast community.    

Employees of The First, Andrea Walton (with her son Brad) and Aleisha Milburn recently donated $1,800 to Calais High School as part of the bank's First Hoop Program. Accepting the check are Calais girls’ basketball players during the Pink Game. First Hoop has donated $15,100.00 in over eight seasons to the Calais athletic program.

Linda Baniszeski