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COVID-19 creates hardship and heartache along the Canadian border
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The short bridge over the St. Croix River from downtown Calais to Canada stood ghostly quiet on a dreary afternoon, looking more like an abandoned railroad trestle than the bustling international link it has been for decades.
Lines of cars were nowhere to be found this recent day. Customs officials at either end, in Maine and New Brunswick, had little to do. And the eerily empty sidewalks of this small border city led past door after door of shuttered storefronts.
Such is life in the age of COVID-19 at the US-Canada border, where tough entry restrictions on both sides have kept families apart, choked local commerce, and upended the social habits of people who live in different countries but call each other neighbors.
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