By Will Tuell

By Paul Sylvain

The passage of time often blurs certain events in our lifetime. However, there are those singular events that are so deeply seared in one’s memory that, decades later, even the smallest of details are recalled as sharply as if they had occurred yesterday. This article is about one of those events..

By Phil Stuart

Back in the late fifties, Bob Whitman and his young family moved from the Bay State and settled in Marshfield. They opened a bowling facility just over the Machias town line in Marshfield known as the Machias Valley Bowling Lanes. The bowling alley opened in 1957; from then on, bowling really flourished in the Machias area for many years.

By Pamela J. Nickerson 

If Hatchery Manager Mitchell Monini is successful then, he chuckles, he will “be out of a job.” Monini is “rearing fish in as natural a habitat as possible to mimic early life stages” along the river in East Machias at the former Bangor Hydro building.  Water from the East Machias River is pumped into an ultraviolet sterilization filter, installed last year following a devastating virus at the Downeast Salmon Federation’s hatchery; all fish at the hatchery had to be destroyed at the time.

MOTHERS Art & Antique Gallery is pleased to share that their next exhibition, ‘CALIFLORA: All Roads Lead to Downeast’ featuring works on paper by Irene Imfeld, John Watson, Clare Olivares, and Whitney Vosburgh, will open on Sunday, Sept. 1, from 4-6 p.m., and will be up until Sept. 21. 

On Thursday, Sept. 5, Maine Seacoast Mission’s flagship vessel, the 74-foot Sunbeam will host a Downeast cruise departing from South Addison. The event is open to the public. Visitors can tour the boat and learn about the Mission's continued commitment to Maine's outer islands and the Downeast region.

The cruise will take place from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served. Visitors who wish to participate can begin boarding at 3:45 p.m. Parking is available at the Addison Town Landing on Marsh Island Road, South Addison.

By Nancy Beal

When Beals Elementary School students return to classes next week, they will soon welcome visiting author and award-winning illustrator Jamie Hogan, whose mission will be to facilitate students in creating panels for their story walk.

By Paul Sylvain

What was expected to be finished in July, then by mid-August, looks more likely headed for a sometime-in-September completion.

For Machias-area motorists, the summer of 2024 will not be remembered as a summer of love but one of almost daily frustrations and delays. It has been a summer where a one-mile trip from the center of town to Hannaford’s could take 40 instead of four minutes.

By Paul Sylvain

“If you don’t say ‘wild’, it’s just another festival.”

That’s according to Machias Town Manager Bill Kitchen who made that statement as a reminder to the town’s selectboard at the close of its Aug. 14 meeting. And indeed, last weekend’s 47th annual edition of the Machias Wild Blueberry Festival proved wild in a good way.

By Will Tuell

A Washington County man who began his career in the Maine Forest Service less than a decade ago was promoted to the position of District Ranger in the agency’s central division -- Greenville to Lubec -- last week.