The Washington County commissioners Thursday afternoon formally hired current Machias Town Manager Betsy Fitzgerald as county manager.

David Norman , of Woodland, accepts congratulations Thursday for being named Washington County's 2009 Citizen of the Year from Commissioner Chris Gardner and Sheriff Donnie Smith .

A Woodland Elementary School pupil gets off the bus on Summit Street in Woodland on Tuesday.

Firefighters from Baileyville, Princeton and Calais responded early Monday morning to a report of fire in a building at Domtar.

What better way to start the new year than to begin training nine new employees? As of Monday morning, Domtar Corp.'s Washington County pulp mill is operating at full capacity with 309 employees, spokesman Scott Beal said Monday, and company officials are looking hopefully to the rest of 2010.

A Baileyville woman suffered a head injury Saturday afternoon when she lost control of her car on Route 9, and a Calais man escaped serious injury when his vehicle struck the woman's disabled car.

MERCER a ' A Chesterville woman was seriously injured Tuesday after her car drifted across the center line on Route 2 into the oncoming path of a loaded logging truck, Maine State Police Trooper Joshua Birmingham said.

A Maine school district is trying to learn why a 5-year-old boy was left home alone by a substitute bus driver rather than dropped off at his daycare.

A preliminary injunction sought by Worcester Holdings LLC, a wreath maker from Columbia, against Whitney Originals, a Machias wreath maker, was denied Friday by Justice Kevin Cuddy in Hancock County Superior Court.

"The Road," distributed by The Weinstein Company, was supposed to be one of the potential stand-out films this holiday season.

State Police also released a composite drawing of a middle aged woman who was seen at the Miller home on Saturday morning.

Maine State Police are investigating several car burglaries in the parking lot of the Domtar pulp mill that were discovered when the overnight shift let out Saturday morning and workers returned to their vehicles.

A local man with a record of assault who allegedly injured the Baileyville police chief last Wednesday was released on unsecured bond this weekend after a mix-up in court regarding his criminal record.

A 49-year-old Baileyville man was arrested Wednesday for assaulting a police officer.

BAILEYVILLE, Maine a ' A local man was arrested Wednesday in connection with an assault on Baileyville Police Chief Phil Harriman.

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Corey Townsend, 18, one of five Baileyville people charged in a brawl with a group of Indian Township boys and men in August 2007, lost the appeal of his conviction in the case Tuesday before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Quilter Sue McIver of Baileyville is asking for pillowcases and for volunteers to sew the pillowcases.