By Will Tuell

The family of a missing Steuben fisherman who did not return home from hauling lobster traps in Jonesport July 21 has not given up hope that 18-year-old Tylar Michaud will be found, according to family friend Joline Brown. Brown, who spearheaded a community effort to raise almost $25,000 in two days, said that volunteers will scour air, land, and sea as the likelihood of Michaud’s survival diminishes with each passing day.

If you know of other area Memorial Day observations, please send them by email to Sarah Craighead Dedmon, [email protected], and we will update this article accordingly. SCD/Editor

by Will Tuell 

Springtime in Washington County means many things, from digging out the grill to the arrival of blackflies, alewives, and yard work. But for many, it also means prepping the ATV and hitting the region’s sprawling network of recreational trails. 

by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

A wind storm that hit early Monday morning knocked out power to thousands of Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative (EMEC) customers, including 100 percent of their Washington County customers and some customers in Aroostook County. 

The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning from 8 p.m. Sunday, April 30, to 10 a.m. on Monday, May 1, anticipating gusts up to 50 m.p.h. Along the coast.

by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Life in the Maine Mineral & Gem Society laboratory is much busier this week after throngs of treasure hunters have descended on Washington County, hoping to find a piece of the bolide meteor that streaked across the midday sky on Saturday, April 8. 

Now those hunters are delivering their finds to the museum for analysis.

by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

NASA scientist Dr. Marc Fries has never been to Maine. But if he could pick any time to visit, it would be now, days after a bolide meteor hurtled across Saturday afternoon’s blue skies, leaving a presumed debris field of ancient materials across eastern Washington County and western New Brunswick.

by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Following Saturday’s meteorite event over Washington County and New Brunswick, Canada, the Maine Mineral and Gem Society is offering a $25,000 reward for the first one-kilogram meteorite recovered.

According to NASA’s Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science (ARES)  lab, radar data picked up almost five minutes of meteorite falls into Washington County and New Brunswick just before noon on Saturday, April 8.

by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

As first reported Saturday, April 8, around midday, dozens of Washington County residents took to social media to ask, “What just fell from the sky?” As the afternoon went on, people from all over New Brunswick, Canada, and as far east as Knox County said they saw it, too.

by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

It was an intriguing afternoon Downeast as eyewitnesses across Washington County, in New Brunswick, Canada, and as far away as Matinicus Isle reported seeing objects falling from the sky midday, Saturday, April 8. 

Marissa Wood of Machiasport said she saw something that came and went very quickly.

by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Andy Patterson of Cutler is reported to have died in a plane crash Saturday, March 25, in Johns Island, South Carolina.

Patterson was piloting the small aircraft when it crashed. Initial reports indicated Patterson was traveling with a passenger, but officials later clarified Patterson was alone in the Piper PA-28, according to the Charleston County News.

The Machias Valley Municipal Airport, where Patterson served on the airport committee, today posted about Patterson’s death.