Washington County News

Gracee Sue Bridges, 4, of Machiasport, gets her H1N1 vaccination Tuesday from Down East Community Hospital nurse Stephanie Wood with the assistance of Gracee's mother, Ree Anna Bridges.

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

The search for a missing clammer in the Washington County town of Perry has presumably come to an end after a body was found along the shoreline.

CHERRYFIELD, Maine a ' Forest Dale, Sr., 46, of Steuben was killed Saturday morning when he was crushed between the cab and the dump body of his delivery truck.

Down a rural road where wood smoke spirals from chimneys in the settling twilight, a five-acre lot thick with spruce trees is the unlikely site of a dream deferred.

PEMBROKE, Maine a ' A verbal argument between a brother and sister escalated Saturday morning until the sister allegedly punched and head-butted the brother.

TOWNSHIP 37, Maine - The investigation is still active and ongoing into a major marijuana growing operation discovered in remote Washington County earlier this fall.

BANGOR, Maine a ' A Canadian man was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court to a year and a day in federal prison for selling oxycodone to undercover police officers last year in Washington County.

The Jonesport Elementary School in Washington County is canceling classes for Monday.

The state Department of Economic and Community Development awarded $590,000 to six Maine communities in the third round of Community Development Block Grants this year.

A Washington County sheriff's deputy suffered serious injuries Thursday night when his cruiser rolled over on the Charlotte Road after striking a moose.

A deputy with the Washington County Sheriff's office was hurt Thursday in an accident in the town of Charlotte.

The vote to repeal the school consolidation vote went down in defeat, 58 percent to 42 percent.

Workers steer harvesters through one of the Ricker Hill Orchards' cranberry bogs.

Donald Newell of Princeton pleaded guilty Friday to domestic violence, a Class B burglary and violations of both a protection order and his conditions of release, but it was his ex-girlfriend's behavior that really caught the attention of Justice E. Allen Hunter.

Sean MacArthur, 22, and Adam Casey, 26, both of Baileyville were found guilty of a combined five charges Friday by a jury at Washington County Superior Court.

Another $2,000 needs to be raised to bring Bar Harbor's new sculpture by Turkish artist Songul Telek home.

Not long ago, a soldier taking a closer look at a sign bleached white from the Iraq sun discovered a barely legible name very familiar to those in Washington County: Chris Rutherford.

Several school and municipal officials in Washington County gathered earlier this month to discuss the status of school administration consolidation in the county, and their consensus was that the school consolidation law should be overturned by voters - even though their schools stand to lose funding if the law is upheld.

The man accused of setting fire to a home in Dennysville early Wednesday morning is being held on five thousand dollars cash bail.