The International Bridge between Madawaska, Maine, and Edmunston, New Brunswick.
When COVID-19 hit the U.S. more than a year ago, one of the first steps the country took was to close its northern border with Canada. Essential travel is still allowed, but more casual trips have been banned, and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future as daily case counts stay elevated in both countries.
All those changes have drastically affected life in northern Aroostook County, where families often straddle the border and have in some cases traveled back and forth multiple times a day between, say, Madawaska and nearby Edmundston, New Brunswick, to see each other.