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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PLANTING CLAM SEEDS in the Sipayik Community Clam Garden at Half Moon Cove are members of the Downeast Institute during a sunny but brisk day in early April. The clam garden, which will provide clams ...

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 ...

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 ...

The boards of directors of Eastport Health Care (EHC) and St. Croix Regional Family Health Center, based in Princeton, announced this week that the two organizations will be merging to improve access ...