Local News

The winner for the 2016 Down East Hospice Volunteers quilt is Jean Mahar, formerly of Eastport, now residing at Washington Place in Calais.  Jean is a life long quilt maker herself and loved this quilt that she won.  It was made and donated by Brenda Lang of Skowhegan, ME and it is called - 'Hidden Hearts'.

Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife biologists just finished a week of capturing and collaring moose in two different geographic study areas in northern Maine as part of the department’s ongoing moose study.

If you have or know a child or adolescent in the Calais area with an interest in learning how to climb, Washington County Community College [WCCC] is now offering a youth climbing program for exactly that purpose. Youths in grades 3-8 are invited to come and join in the weekly classes, which will run from January 31st to March 24th. 

Paul C. Brooks of Miami Lakes, Florida to Robert S. Dore and Barbara A. Dore of Perry land with buildings and improvements thereon situated in Perry (Being part of lot number twenty-nine beginning at the northeast corner of Aaron Frost’s land N0. 18)

Saturday, January 28th at 7:00 pm at the Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington St., Eastport

By Dorothy Johnson