Washington County News

BAR HARBOR : In the last eight years, the Maine Sea Coast Mission has awarded $1,000 scholarships to 69 graduates of Mount Desert Island High School and to 14 graduates of Ellsworth High School.

MILBRIDGE – Governor John E. Baldacci today participated in a ceremony to designate the Great South Bridge in Milbridge as the Harold West Bridge.

Despite being in the midst of a recession, despite being in the middle of Washington County, and despite being hours from any major city, two music lovers have opened up a music supply store on Route 182.

In the last few years, Down East Community Hospital has faced financial uncertainty, the departure of longtime physicians and dueling rhetoric in the community about the hospital's management team and board of trustees.

After the Baldacci administration rolled out its Pine Tree Zone business incentive program in 2003, an interesting question emerged - why not make the entire state a Pine Tree Zone? This week, the governor signed into law a plan that does just that for the rest of 2009.

CAMDEN : The Community Schoola s Passages Program, a home-based high school program for teen parents in Knox, Waldo and Washington counties, will be presented with a $25,000 grant from Barbara Bush for its Family Connections: Phase Two project at a ceremony in Biddeford on June 22.

If a public meeting Tuesday evening on a proposed local liquefied natural gas terminal had been an election on the project, it would have been approved in a landslide.

Caregivers in Downeast Maine are will be getting more support thanks to a new program.

After being told by her daughter that a man in their home was an armed intruder, a 77-year-old woman pulled a gun on him and sent him running, according to court documents.

After being told by her daughter that a man in their home was an armed intruder, a 77-year-old Downeast Maine woman pulled a gun on him and sent him running, according to court documents.

A 77-year-old Princeton woman faced down a man armed with a sawed-off shotgun and sent him running after she pointed her own gun at him, according to court documents.

Safe, decent and affordable housing is a basic need that everyone should be able to access.

A Williston man suspected of drugging and molesting a 13-year-old girl before fleeing to Maine has waived extradition.

A 46-year-old Lubec woman allegedly has stolen nearly $30,000 from an East Machias gasoline station and convenience store, Sheriff Donnie Smith said Wednesday.

BAILEYVILLE a ' Domtar Corp. is reopening its pulp mill in eastern Maine this month just seven weeks after shutting it down indefinitely because of weak global demand for pulp, high inventory levels and depressed prices.

CAMDEN : Camden Falls Gallery on the public landing is exhibiting "A Fresh Start" group show through Monday, June 15.

Three people accused as accomplices in a string of burglaries and thefts that stretched from Lubec to Machias appeared in Washington County Superior Court on Thursday.

Maine Drug Enforcement agents assigned to the Down East District Task Force following a tip found about 50 marijuana plants growing in a wooded area last month and arrested a Lubec man on charges of cultivating the plants.

The controversy in the small Washington County town of Milbridge over plans to build a housing complex for the town's Hispanic immigrant population is sadly typical.

The Maine Ethics Commission plans to investigate whether the organization Maine Leads violated state campaign finance laws during its efforts to get two anti-tax measures on the ballot.