by Ruth Leubecker

Keeping Maine Healthy grants were approved in June by the Mills administration for  towns across Maine so that they could more effectively battle the growing inroads of COVID-19.

But for Washington County, who has historically missed out on funding in the past, this time it’s a fortunate turn of events for missing out on these COVID funds. Downeast Maine with its envious record of virus cases, only lately in the two-digit category, remains out of the mainstream.