In recognition of the heart health of its customers and associates and in conjunction with American Heart Month, Hannaford Supermarkets has announced that all 185 stores throughout New England and…
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ROCKPORT — Midcoast Habitat for Humanity received a donation from Four Corner Variety in Union. Four Corner donated $.10 for every pound tagged during hunting season.
"As the new owners…
The Camden Rotary Club Foundation is giving local nonprofit 501c3 organizations an extra two weeks to submit grant applications. Nonprofits serving people in Knox County and Lincolnville now may…
BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Sports have a way of unifying people. Special Olympics Maine Unified Champion Clubs is dedicated to promoting social inclusion by pairing people with and without intellectual…
A new report released this week by MaineHousing is meant to help both key policymakers and Maine citizens better understand the state of affordable housing development in Maine as we head into…
Tickets on sale now
ROCKPORT — The Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce will once again host a Year in Review Awards Gala to recognize those who have made extraordinary contributions to the community in the…
MIDCOAST — Organizations have gotten an early start in announcing building closures ahead of a forecasted storm that begins late Sunday night, Jan. 22, and continues into Monday morning.
…ROCKLAND — The City of Rockland has issued a city-wide parking ban starting at 11 p.m., Jan. 22, 2023 and ending at 8 a.m., Jan. 23.
The parking ban will then resume Jan. 23, at 8 p.m.,…
AUGUSTA —The real estate market in Maine adjusted during the 2022 sales year due to an increase in mortgage interest rates and a shortage of available homes…
MIDCOAST — Local residents are waking up to a white morning today, Jan. 20, 2023. By 6:30 a.m., there have been a few minor fender benders, as well as a rollover near the Warren Community School (…
Nonprofit organizations in Waldo County may be eligible for grants from the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Community Building Grant Program.
The grant program invests in local…
Nonprofit organizations in Knox County may be eligible for grants from the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Community Building Grant Program. The grant program invests in local projects and…
Volunteers from the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program
Appointments are now available for free tax-return preparation. Volunteers from the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program will prepare your taxes for free at Camden Public Library and Rockland Public…
CAMDEN — Meesha Luce, CPIA, ACSR, a personal insurance account executive at Allen Insurance and Financial, is the 2023 chairwoman of the Maine Insurance Agents Association’s Young Agents Committee…
The Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce Board Members Susan Beemer, of Cornerspring Montessori School, and Erin Merrifield, of RE/MAX Jaret & Cohn Real Estate, have been promoted from within the…
using Polaroid cameras when she started
ROCKPORT — Barbara Young, CGRN, endoscopy supervisory clinical care coordinator at Pen Bay Medical Center, retired from the hospital after nearly 40 years of service. Her last day was Friday, Jan…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
By now we know that Genesis is Hyundai’s luxury brand (as Lexus is to Toyota), with its own dealership and service network; Hyundai is Korean (not Chinese) and it also…
OWLS HEAD — On Dec. 16, the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s Board of Directors unanimously voted to appoint John Bottero the Executive Director of the Owls Head Transportation Museum, effective…
‘a huge difference in the lives of students’
Waldo County Technical Center’s fifth annual, “Tis the Season,” an event that provides students of WCTC with food, clothing, and toiletries before the holidays, has been highly successful because…
The I-295 closure that was planned for tonight, Thursday, Jan. 5 is being pushed to Sunday night because of the weather. Additionally, there will be a similar closure on Monday night. On both…
corporate teams and individual teams
Registration is open for the 11th annual WinterKids Downhill 24, March 2-3, 2023. at Sugarloaf. Presented by Agren and Zachau Construction, the WinterKids Downhill 24 is a 24-hour ski and…
ROCKLAND — “We really are out of whack in a number of places,” said Kerry Leichtman, who is newly employed as Rockland’s assessor. “It would be great to fix that up.”
Rockland City…
CAMDEN — Allen Insurance and Financial, Maine’s largest employee-owned independent insurance and financial services agency, announces changes to the company’s leadership team and an addition to…
Thanks to the generosity of donors, Stewardship Education Alliance was able to offer a second grant cycle to fund four additional grants to teachers in local schools for a total of ten in…
Analysis
When President Biden signs the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill into law, Maine’s lobster industry will take a six-year step back from the brink thanks to the efforts of Maine’s congressional delegation…
154 winter jackets and more than $8,000 in food assistance donated
“Maine Water and its employees are pleased to again provide for the hungry and children in need in the communities the company serves across the state of Maine,” said…
addressing solid waste management challenges
Montville and Rockland are among the recipients of the second round of Waste Diversion Grant awards for recycling and organics management projects in Maine. By increasing composting and recycling…
BELFAST — The City of Belfast was awarded $1.5 million in Congressional Designated Spending in the FY2023 Omnibus Spending Bill. This federal funding will be a key part of the capital necessary…
ROCKPORT — Ardiah has welcomed Dana O’Donal, the newest member of the growing accounting, tax and administrative team in Rockport that supports Ardiah teammates and clients in Maine and other…
Use it or lose it
An unpleasant reality many employees are finding out in these last days of 2022, is that the vacation and PTO you’ve accumulated in 2022 may not roll over for 2023. In other words, this is the…
Joe Ryan, Executive Director of AIO has issued the following season’s greetings to the community:
As a new year approaches, I want to thank all who have contributed so generously…
Camden Rotarians and members of the MidCoast Interact Club brought Christmas cheer to local families in need on Saturday, December 17. The volunteers gathered at First Congregational Church on Elm…
ROCKPORT — Zoe, A Women’s Center, in Rockport, which provides caring pregnancy counseling and support for women, is the recipient of diapers collected recently by the Waldo County Republicans.
WATERVILLE — Jake Marden, of Marden’s Surplus and Salvage, handed Maine Children’s Home (MCH) a check of $100,000 on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, to be used for MCH’s Christmas Program. The large gift…
Buyers of single-family existing homes across Maine are still encountering a lower-than-normal inventory of homes available for purchase. According to Maine Listings, 1,289 homes changed hands in…
The Camden Rotary Club Foundation invites nonprofit 501c3 organizations that improve people’s lives in Knox County and Lincolnville to apply for …
‘We disagree with the decision and are considering our options, including an appeal’
A state board has rejected Walmart’s attempt to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in property taxes for its store in Thomaston, in a case that tested an argument by big-box chains that claim…
Breanna Pinkham Bebb, of Northport, is the newest member of the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Waldo County Grantmaking Committee. MaineCF’s county committees are made up of community…
BELFAST — The Belfast Garden Club, among other annual donations this month, contributed 16 new books to the gardening and horticulture collection at the Belfast Free Library.
The club has…
KNOX COUNTY — Joelle Albury of Rockland, Maggi Blue of Warren, and Cyndi Prince of Camden are the newest members of the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Knox County Grantmaking Committee.…
On Friday, Dec. 16, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries employees gathered for their annual Christmas lunch while they assembled gifts of food, toys, and other items for the animals at the Pope…
Maine Water Company has announced that Justin Edelstein has been hired as the company’s controller to join the finance and accounting team. He will succeed Greg Leighton, the company’s current…
State Board of Property Tax Review upholds Thomaston refusal to reduce Walmart’s property assessment
AUGUSTA — Walmart’s appeal to the State Board of Property Tax Review after the Town of Thomaston denied a property tax abatement request…
Finding Our Voices has received an $8,000 grant from Camden National Bank for its Youth Healthy-Relationship campaign, bringing the bank’s total funding of the grassroots, survivor-powered…
Central Maine’s first ‘rage room’ is the perfect holiday stress relief
WINSLOW—What do you do when you have an extra garage sitting around in the middle of nowhere?
Craig Stanton, a 47-year-old professional car detailer, took a look at the garage that had…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
While my wife was at her appointment in Portland, I went to refuel—recharge the car’s battery bank, that is. According to my app, there were three charging points within a…
now seeking applicants for another vacant position
OWLS HEAD — At a special meeting on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, the Owls Head select board voted unanimously to promote Catherine Birmingham to the position of Town Treasurer.
Birmingham, who…
OWLS HEAD — The Knox County Regional Airport and residents of Owls Head are benefitting from the sale of property belonging to Owls Head Transportation Museum, and all three entities are excited…
CAMDEN — On Saturday, Dec. 3, the sixteenth annual ‘Ringing in the Season’ holiday handbell concert was presented to a live audience in the sanctuary of First Congregational Church of Camden.…
