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Many Calais High School students have been busy collecting donations to help support World Central Kitchen, Inc. (WCK), an organization that provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises.  

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Sarah’s House of Maine is a cancer hospitality house located in Holden.  It serves many from all over the state who are receiving treatment, with Washington County residents making up the majority–42 percent.

Palm Sunday began with St. Kateri Parish’s Passion of Christ reenactment, which travelled through the streets of Calais, marking the start of Holy Week. (Photo by Pierre Little)

Barbara Barnett, Executive Director of Down East Hospice Volunteers receives a sponsorship donation from Ian Pratt of Pratt Chevrolet for the 31st annual Cobscook Bay Race taking place on June 5, 2022 in Pembroke. To donate and or to participate go to www.cobscookbayroadraces.org.  All proceeds go to Down East Hospice Volunteers of Washington County.  Join others in our community and support this signature fund raising event.  (Submitted photo)

Washington County Community College is proud to announce that Graca Muzela, a student in the Residential and Commercial Electricity program, is the 2022 Student of the Year.

Art teachers Sara Myrick of Shead High School & Eastport Elementary School & Bobbi Tardif of Calais Middle/High School are wonderful with their students. They had students create 15 pieces of incredible rhubarb art to compete to be on the Rhubarb Festival poster. We will have all of the artwork made by these students on display in the Kendall Farm barn during The Rhubarb Festival. Thanks to the 10 judges from Calais, Eastport, Perry, Robbinston, Lubec and Dennysville who judged the art for this competition.

Jayna Smith
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Washington County has been noted as a “hot spot” for both opioid and all overdoses in the State of Maine.  Even more, the state is the leader per capita in opioid and all overdoses in the entire New England region.  Now, to help curb the drug epidemic, a new program is available in Washington County.  

Please join Calais Community Hospital (CCH) and Down East Community Hospital (DECH) in the celebration of National Donate Life Month this April. The month-long celebration showcases various perspectives of those touched by donation and transplantation.  

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Since 1999, the Calais Skatepark Committee has worked hard on its park with upgrades and upkeep, as well as hosting many events for the area’s skaters and BMX riders.  Now, the group, through the Brendan Leddy Memorial Fund, is ready to add a mini ramp.

The park already includes several q-pipes, along with starter ramps and others.  The addition of the new ramp, according to committee member Nate Gardner, is the first mini ramp for the park.