Kaileigh Deacon

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Many are familiar with The Blue Devil Fund, a not-for-profit organization started by Calais High School alumnus Chris Taylor.  Since its inception in 2010, The Blue Devil Fund has raised well over $10,000 for local charities.

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National Civics Day is an opportunity to celebrate civics in a number of ways, one being through community projects.  Students and staff from Washington County Community College recently did just that when they took to the Calais Waterfront Walkway for a clean-up project.

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On Monday, November 1, patrons at Irene Chadbourne Ecumenical Food Pantry in Calais had the opportunity to receive fresh-pressed apple cider, thanks to Healthy Acadia.

Rae Rowell, AmeriCorps volunteer with Healthy Acadia, was onsite pressing locally-grown apples into fresh, tangy-sweet cider.  “The initiative I am working on is Ending Hunger in Maine by 2030, and so my job is to help Healthy Acadia meet some of the goals that are in that initiative.”

Kaileigh Deacon

In a time when girls struggle so much with confidence and self-esteem, it can be hard to find ways to build those up. In 2015, Senator Olympia Snowe recognized the need for a program to bolster girls and founded the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute.

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Twenty-six Calais High School students, all members of National Honor Society (NHS) and/or student council, took part in the annual Rock-a-Thon event after school on Monday.  

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It is that time of year again, when Pratt auto dealership matches food pantry donations, making November a great month to make a contribution to your local food pantry.

Recognizing how great the need is for the pantries in Washington County and in an effort to decrease food insecurity locally, businessman Ian Pratt is again doing a donation-match campaign for the entire month, dollar for dollar up to $5,000, to be split among Washington County food pantries.

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On Friday, October 29, Calais Free Library’s Halloween Parade was back, and it did not disappoint, as proven by the many smiles and giggles seen and heard along the route.

Pierre Little, publisher of the Machias Valley News Observer and The Calais Advertiser this week announced he has purchased a newspaper located in Ozark, Alabama, The Southern Star, the state’s oldest family newspaper.

The Southern Star has been in the Adams family for 154 years, initially begun by Joe Adams’s great grandfather in 1867, when the county seat was located in the town of Newton. When the county seat moved 10 miles away to Ozark, The Southern Star moved, too.

by Cindy Joyce, Correspondent

Gabrielle White and Sean Gray,  comprise a duo of excellence, as owners/designers of Downeast Jewelers, LLC, located at 63 Dublin Street, Suite # 3, in Machias. Gray stated, “We still have a lot of people driving around, missing us.” The description of the physical location is on Rt. 1, at the top of ‘College Hill’, across from the University of Maine in Machias.

Gray purchased the business from Brett Leighton of Leighton Jewelry & Design, earlier this year.