By Will Tuell

On Wednesday, May 21, members of the Machias Ambulance Service attended a ceremony at the State House honoring one of their own. Joe Thompson, an EMT with MAS, was one of nine clinicians around the state to receive Maine EMS’s Excellence Award, MAS Chief Ryan Maker said in a social media post following the ceremony. 

Thompson, noted Maker, “has been an integral part of Washington County's emergency services for over 20 years.”