Cribbage Tourney Brings a Fun Rivalry, Money for Festival

 

Jayna Smith
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There was heavy pegging at Fitzgerald’s Tavern on Sunday for a cribbage tournament that benefited this year’s International Homecoming Festival.  
The festival planning committees on both sides of the border have begun organizing and raising funds to host the numerous events.  Fitzgerald’s owner Tim

Krug decided to raise some money in addition to providing his own donation, all while offering up a fun day of cribbage.

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Calais Callbacks Tackle Major Issues in Selfie

 

Kaileigh Deacon

It has been a while since The Calais Callbacks were able to take to the stage with a live audience, but this past weekend, they brought their competition performance to the stage of Calais High School. During the peak of the pandemic, the group was still able to meet and put on a play but were unable to attend their competition or put on a performance for friends and family as they had done in the past.

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Calais High School Students Expand World Central Kitchen Collection Efforts

Jayna Smith
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Many Calais High School students have been busy collecting donations to help support World Central Kitchen, Inc. (WCK), an organization that provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises.  

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Dinner and Auction Set to Support Sarah’s House of Maine

Jayna Smith
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Sarah’s House of Maine is a cancer hospitality house located in Holden.  It serves many from all over the state who are receiving treatment, with Washington County residents making up the majority–42 percent.

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Passion Journey

 

Palm Sunday began with St. Kateri Parish’s Passion of Christ reenactment, which travelled through the streets of Calais, marking the start of Holy Week. (Photo by Pierre Little)

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Down East Hospice Volunteers Received Sponsorship for 31st Cobscook Bay Race

 

Barbara Barnett, Executive Director of Down East Hospice Volunteers receives a sponsorship donation from Ian Pratt of Pratt Chevrolet for the 31st annual Cobscook Bay Race taking place on June 5, 2022 in Pembroke. To donate and or to participate go to www.cobscookbayroadraces.org.  All proceeds go to Down East Hospice Volunteers of Washington County.  Join others in our community and support this signature fund raising event.  (Submitted photo)

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Washington County Community College’s 2022 Student of the Year

 

Washington County Community College is proud to announce that Graca Muzela, a student in the Residential and Commercial Electricity program, is the 2022 Student of the Year.

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WCCC Raises Awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month this April

 

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Rhubarb Art Competition for June’s Rhubarb Festival

 

Art teachers Sara Myrick of Shead High School & Eastport Elementary School & Bobbi Tardif of Calais Middle/High School are wonderful with their students. They had students create 15 pieces of incredible rhubarb art to compete to be on the Rhubarb Festival poster. We will have all of the artwork made by these students on display in the Kendall Farm barn during The Rhubarb Festival. Thanks to the 10 judges from Calais, Eastport, Perry, Robbinston, Lubec and Dennysville who judged the art for this competition.

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Navigation Program Aims to Offer Helpful Hand Toward Recovery

Jayna Smith
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Washington County has been noted as a “hot spot” for both opioid and all overdoses in the State of Maine.  Even more, the state is the leader per capita in opioid and all overdoses in the entire New England region.  Now, to help curb the drug epidemic, a new program is available in Washington County.  

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