The Calais Advertiser

The Calais Advertiser Your Hometown Newspaper Published each week and incorporates all the local news not only in Calais but the surrounding towns including our Canadian neighbors.

The paper is published weekly on Thursday.

This week's edition is ready now for our online subscribers and will be on newsstands later this morning. It's FULL of a...
10/15/2025

This week's edition is ready now for our online subscribers and will be on newsstands later this morning. It's FULL of all your hometown news and all the happenings from around the county!

Celebrating Fall at CDRC’s Harvest Festival
10/11/2025

Celebrating Fall at CDRC’s Harvest Festival

Mia Lursen shows her pumpkin craft from a free event hosted by St. Croix Tap & Table as part of the Harvest Festival fun. (Photo by Jayna Smith)

Jo’s Diner & Pizzeria Hosts Inaugural Whoopie Pie Eating Contest at Harvest Festival
10/11/2025

Jo’s Diner & Pizzeria Hosts Inaugural Whoopie Pie Eating Contest at Harvest Festival

Jayna Smith [email protected] This year’s Harvest Festival got a little sweeter thanks to Jo’s Diner & Pizzeria, which hosted its very first Whoopie Pie Eating Contest for kids ages 12 and under. And let’s just say, it was messy, chaotic, and a sugar-fueled frenzy of fun. Owner Tim Crowe, no s...

Hospice Volunteers Honored at Blueberry Point Luncheon
10/10/2025

Hospice Volunteers Honored at Blueberry Point Luncheon

Down East Hospice Volunteers and friends were hosted by Audrey Patterson with a luncheon at her home on Blueberry Point in Perry to celebrate another year of compassionate volunteer hospice service in Washington County, our 44th year. DEHV is offering volunteer training on October 20, 23, 24, 28, an...

Lioness of the Year Announced
10/10/2025

Lioness of the Year Announced

Calais Lioness President Caitlin Merrill presents Theresa Porter with the 2024-25 Lioness of the Year award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the club. (Photo by Jayna Smith)

Princeton Parks & Rec. Costume Swap and Pumpkin Painting
10/10/2025

Princeton Parks & Rec. Costume Swap and Pumpkin Painting

The Princeton Parks & Recreation group held its second annual Halloween Costume Swap at the Princeton Public Library. This year, pumpkins were purchased in order to offer an opportunity for the kids to paint one and bring it home. The kids were really creative in their painting of their pumpkins. Th...

Students Honor Indigenous Children on Wear Orange Day
10/09/2025

Students Honor Indigenous Children on Wear Orange Day

Passamaquoddy language and culture teacher Lynn Mitchell led Calais High School students in the annual school-wide march for Wear Orange Day on Sept. 30, remembering Indigenous children lost to residential schools and those who returned with lasting hurts. Many students wore orange shirts, a symbol....

Your hometown news is ready now online and will be on newsstands later this morning!
10/08/2025

Your hometown news is ready now online and will be on newsstands later this morning!

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Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Friday 9am - 4:30pm

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Each week, 2,800 papers incorporating all the local news - not only in Calais but the surrounding towns, including our Canadian neighbors - are printed. The papers are printed Wednesday morning in Canada with an official publishing day on Thursday.