ROCKLAND — Sarah Ruddy, executive director of the Strand Theatre, will leave her post on July 31. Ruddy, who has helmed the downtown nonprofit historic theater for two years, has accepted a…
Culture
UNION — In 2014 the Union Historical Society was awarded a grant of $2,000 from the Knox County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, for the purpose of funding a temporary, part-time…
Boothbay Region Art Foundation...
The Boothbay Region Art Foundation awarded its first student scholarship on May 14 to Elena Laustsen. The Camden Hills Regional High School senior is no stranger to…
$10 showing Wednesday, May 20
ROCKLAND — If you were a Gen X latch key kid in the ‘70s, you probably woke up on a weekday morning, did your free range rounds around the neighborhood without anyone notifying the police, and…
ROCKLAND — The current exhibition of the Good Tern Coop Café Gallery features the paintings of Leecia Price of Camden.
Price’s education and background are in wildlife conservation and…
All-day festival replaces the Belfast Free Range Festival
BELFAST—When the grassroots-organized Free Range Music Festival hit the skids a few years ago, it wasn’t just the musicians who felt the pain; the community lost a vibrant cultural event. Enter…
BELFAST — Far Up Close, an exhibit of three photographers, opens at Waterfall Arts on Friday, May 22, with a reception from 5-8 p.m. The exhibit encompasses…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
The Midcoast music scene kicks off the summer with two extraordinary concerts at the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor later this month. On May 29, it’s the acclaimed bluegrass trio the Kruger…
Belfast’s all day music festival, after parties, funky dance party and foodie paradise in Bar Harbor!
Slide into summer—that’s what this weekend is going to feel like. Wheeeeeee. The foodies and music lovers are going to go crazy-go-nuts over this one.
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For those coming back to Maine for the summer, here's what's new...
We’re ready for spring, even if it’s taking it’s sweet time shuffling up the coast. Here’s what happened over the fall and winter and all of the new businesses and changes that took place in…
For those coming back to Maine for the summer, here's what's new...
CAMDEN-ROCKPORT — Dear Snow Birds, when you come back to the Midcoast, you may notice the hollow, traumatized look in the eyes of the locals, who just got through winter about five…
The rocky coast of Maine and bluegrass music aren’t frequently found in the same sentence, but that’s exactly where you’ll find Miners Creek Bluegrass Band, in Rockport. …
Kids, Cameras, and Post War Waterfronts
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library has created a new gallery on the lower level, where the Library and the Rockland Historical Society are co-sponsoring an exhibit of historical photographs of…
Colorful abstracts by Midcoast native and mixed media artist Mac Economy are on display at Camden National Bank in the Camden Square shopping center through the end of June. The contemporary works…
Rockland City Council...
ROCKLAND — In a vote of 1 to 4, Rockland City Council members rejected the Rockland Festival Corporation’s request to have its 2015 $14,000 Lobster Festival fee waived.
Those fees include…
Writing, blogging, swimming, coaching, Viking exploration, frugal living...
Wednesday, May 13, PenBayPilot.com and The Chris Wolf Show will host Hodding Carter IV of Camden. This show will be broadcast on…
By Local Photographer/Mixed Media Artist Amy Wilton
HOPE – Amy Wilton will be hosting an opening of her new body of work, The Red Thread, at her studio in Hope on Friday, May 22, from 5-9 p.m. The studio is located at 458 Camden Road in Hope,…
Transformations
I'm at the tortuous crossroads I was dreading, the one I'd assured myself I'd somehow avoid. I told myself that the packing and dismantling would happen in a way that would not disturb me. I'd…
Creativity is abundant at the Watershed School
Ask a Watershed School student if he or she has been involved in a theater production and the answer will most likely be yes. At the Watershed School,…
Poem for Aunt Gina
Was your back yard
the only one in Camden, in Maine
…
Eat For Nepal, May 17 to May 22
On April 25, when a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, Meghan Vigeant (whom we recently covered in a PechaKucha story) put all of her work as a personal historian on hold to concentrate on the…
Annual production fills the Camden Opera House
CAMDEN — In a performance that filled the Camden Opera House Thursday evening, May 7, the Camden-Rockport Elementary School third…
The 90-acre Cushing homestead of Maine artist Bernard Langlais will soon be gifted to the Georges River Land Trust as the Langlais Sculpture Preserve, but first it's getting an energy efficiency…
Kea Tesseyman uses dance to help fundrasie for her upcoming performance
CAMDEN — Sunday, May 3, was an afternoon of learning Bollywood dance at High Mountain Hall in Camden as Kea Tesseyman of Kinetic Energy Alive raised money for her Annual Dance and Short Film Event…
Mother’s Day wine and chocolate tasting, Derby Bouts, Blue Eyed Soul and Portland Road Trip for BBQ & Beer
In one week we went straight from winter into summer, yes indeedly. Can you feel it? Everybody is starting to get social again, so here are a few things to top off your weekend.
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The Belfast Creative Coalition seeks performers for Belfast's Fourth Friday Art Walk experience. To be considered for a featured paid performer position, send a sample to…
Singer-songwriter Gintare performed at the Riley School May 3 as a fundraiser for the school and to bring awareness of the theater space as a venue available to…
Maine man builds R2-D2 unit to ease the suffering of sick children
BANGOR — Any Star Wars fans out there? For International Star Wars Day, apparently, this is the droid you’re looking for.
We discovered Paul J. Bussiere, an Orrington…
Performance and workshop
ROCKPORT— This weekend three young musicians born and bred in Maine are returning from their studies in Boston to perform, conduct a free workshop, visit friends and family, and enjoy being back…
UNION — Mother's Day, Sunday, May 10, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., treat Mom to a day of wine and chocolates. Savage Oakes Vineyard and Winery is teaming up with Sweetgrass Farm Winery and Distillery to…
Thursday, May 7
"At the Blink of a Hat" performing at the Camden Library Coffeehouse, 7 p.m., $8. At the Blink of a Hat is the trio of Julia Plumb, Baron Collins-Hill, and Will Brown. Their…
Transformations
This is an excerpt from Henri is a Hen, Cheep Cheep, a children's book by Karson Liegh. Henri, who narrates the story, wants to let children know that chickens are just like us: they have…
First Rockland Art Walk kicks off; Gintare and The Rugged perform; dance costume party at FOG Bar and May Festival road trip
Almost as if on cue, when May 1 comes around this weekend, no more of this drizzly 40-degree balderdash. Sunny in the 60s people! That means the long slow wall slide of winter is over and it’s…
The Chris Wolf Show is a cooperative experiment between penbaypilot.com, WRFR FM Community Radio, and Maine Coast TV, Community Television. It's different from most broadcasting. We don't have…
Meeting tonight
ROCKPORT — Rockport Public Library’s consultant, Steve Podgajny, hopes to hear from more Rockport citizens as he schedules a presentation of his initial findings April 29, 5:30 p.m., at the…
BANGOR — The biggest complaint you hear from West Coast comic conferences (known as comic cons) is that the nerds and the comic-, game- and movie-obsessed have been pushed out of the very cultural…
BELFAST — Residents and visitors of Belfast who happened to be downtown Sunday morning were treated to the second annual Earth Day Parade, featuring puppets crafted by creative residents…
THOMASTON — Thomaston Public Library's main display case this month features the decoupage boxes of library friend and patron Davene Fahy, whose custom decoupage business supplies several…
Fluid Color and Light
BELFAST — ‘Fluid Color and Light’ is the title of an exhibit of paintings by Jon Byrer that will be in the Kramer Gallery of the Belfast Free Library for the Month of May.
Byre…
Transformations
Miss Elder lives on our floor in the apartment next to Mrs. Robertson and her son, Matthew. She has a hump on her back and she is bent over, which makes her look even shorter than she really is.…
Thursday, April 30
"Titanic: A Century of Myth and Memory," illustrated talk by Erin Bishop, 7 p.m., at the Camden Public Library. Part of Maritime Month at the library.
Friday, May 1…
Resisting Entropy III: The show comes down this Sunday
ROCKPORT — It’s a quiet weekday afternoon. There’s no one is in Center for Maine Contemporary Art, not even a receptionist. It’s silent except for a mechanical churning sound in the back area of…
The Megalomaniacs a cappella; Carolyn Chute reading with The Midnight Riders; The Fallout storytellers and Bangor Comic Con
Sense an uptick in energy this weekend? That's because we've got a strong line up of music, stories, art, wine and a great reason to get out of Dodge.
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Owls Head Transportation Museum’s final lecture
OWLS HEAD — The Isle of Man is a small island that sits between England and Ireland in the Irish Sea. It is also known for its incredibly fast and dangerous motorcycle racing. On Saturday, April…
A week of cultural exchange
CAMDEN — It was an early morning Saturday for some Camden-Rockport Middle school kids and their parents, but what a way to start a school vacation. At 5 a.m., 10 students and two chaperones…
Thursday, April 23
Cynthia Motian McGuirl presents "Armenia: A Remembrance" commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, including family memoirs, and illustrated by McGuirl…
Colonial Theatre’s storytelling event can now be heard on WERU
Last month we previewed the Colonial Theatre’s first storytelling event: Salted Tales: Stories from the Sea held on March 23. (…
