Natalie Boomer
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Downeast Lakes Land Trust is inviting the community to meet in the forest of Grand Lake Stream and search for sheds on Saturday, April 2nd.
This Maine spring tradition brings hunters and adventurers out to look for moose and deer antlers.

“We’ve never done this event before, but it’s a very popular local pastime and a great way to get outdoors during mud season,” said development and outreach manager Colin Brown.

Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Joe McBrine was hunting, fishing, and trapping before most people learn their state capitols, often racing off early before school to set traps along the Middle River, then checking them again at night. He was in the 5th grade when he first considered becoming a game warden, and it looks like he made the right decision. Last week the Maine Warden Service named McBrine the 2021 Maine Game Warden of the Year, honoring his commitment, skill, and 27-plus years of service protecting the people and wild places of Washington County.

Archaeology At Indigenous Sites In Pembroke presented
by Dr. Gabe Hrynick

Most Pembroke Historical Society programs have been about the late 18th through early 20th centuries, with such topics as the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, but on Thursday, April 21st at 7 p.m., on ZOOM, PHS will travel much further back for some “Really, Really Old History” with a presentation on archaeology at Pembroke sites of settlement by Indigenous Peoples, including Reversing Falls.

Natalie Boomer
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Downeast Lakes Land Trust (DLLT) is bringing a new event to Grand Lake Stream.  On April 29, the Festival of the Forest will begin!

Sarah Craighead Dedmon
 
The Maine Veterans Homes in Machias and Caribou will remain open, instead of closing on April 15 and May 1 as announced in February.  

Jayna Smith
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Moore’s Auto Body has been a fixture at 219 Houlton Road in Baileyville for years.  Now, it has joined in a partnership with DC Automotive, owned by Christien Hooper.

Kate Cough, Maine Monitor

The Wolfden Resources Corporation is making plans to mine for silver in Pembroke, but residents of the Washington County town near the Canadian border are fiercely against the idea and packed a public hearing last week to voice opposition.

The Daughters of Isabella Circle #871 of St. Joseph Church in Eastport wanted to help the innocent in Ukraine but like many, weren’t sure what they could do.
“An idea was brought forward by member Dawn Noonan,” said Kathy Lawrence, vice regent of the circle. “And it was a good one!”

The making and selling of handmade chocolate bunnies and roses (see photos) as a fundraiser, with all of the proceeds going to Catholic Relief Services’ ongoing efforts to assist those in need in Ukraine.