CAMDEN - Eighth grade students from the Lincolnville Center School spent their Saturday, September 29, at Key Bank in the Hannaford’s Plaza doing their fall car wash to help raise funds to finance…
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AUGUSTA — The University of Maine at Augusta recently honored 90 students as “Rising Scholars,” including ten who attend the UMA Rockland Center. These students were…
CAMDEN — The First Congregational Church of Camden welcomes Reverend Doctor Ute Susanna Molitor as the congregation’s new settled pastor.…
Oct. 1 public hearing
CAMDEN — On Sept. 19, the Camden-Rockport School Board voted 7 to 0 to place before Camden and Rockport voters a $4.9 million bond proposal to renovate the Mary E.…
ROCKPORT — This fall, the Midcoast Recreation Center is excited to announce it will begin offering massage therapy to the community.
Over the past summer, the MRC has been working hard to…
Bringing veterans back into community
TOGUS – A neighborhood is emerging at the rear of the Veterans Affairs campus at Togus that represents 10 years of perseverance by a Brunswick-based volunteer group, and their community of support…
An estimated 60,000 visitors attended the Common Ground Country Fair in Unity, Sept. 21, 22 and 23. There was a mini-evacuation of the campsites out of worry over potential 50-mph winds, but by…
AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap has announced that the towns of Rockport and Damariscotta have launched Rapid Renewal, the Department of the Secretary of State's online service for the…
Suicide Safer Care Training Portal: screening, intervention, treatment, and support
AUGUSTA – In honor of September's National Suicide Prevention Month, the Maine Center for…
With the heart she got in Boston in June, Kim Emerson has to wear a face mask into stores and wash a head of lettuce with spring water, not well water, because bacteria is a heightened enemy: Her…
Station open house, Look. Learn. Listen campaign during October Fire Prevention Week
ROCKLAND – Today’s home fires burn faster than ever. In a typical home fire, you may have as little as one to two minutes to escape safely from the time the smoke alarm sounds. Knowing how to use…
When the high school students of Waldo County enroll at Waldo County Technical Center, they not only become part of the student population, they become part of the WCTC family. Being…
The Marshall Point Lighthouse and Museum Board of Directors broke ground for the replica of the Keeper’s Barn and Workshop on Wednesday, September 12, following a year-long fundraising…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry said Sept. 14 that a horse showing neurological signs last week in York County tested positive…
ROCKLAND – Arts in Action, Arts@Work, and TGS Art Club programs are now taking registrations for the 2018-19 school year.
Youth artists will work with Alexis Iammarino, Cynthia McGuirl,…
Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment
ROCKPORT – Join the Knox County Community Health Coalition, Maine CDC, Midcoast Public Health Council, Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital to…
Groundbreaking ceremony for new Camden-Rockport Middle School
CAMDEN – A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday morning, September 13, at Camden-Rockport Middle School, marking the beginning of construction of the new middle school on the grounds of the…
Welcoming Week is September 17 through 21
ROCKPORT — This Welcoming Week, taking place September 17-21, the Penobscot Bay YMCA will join Welcoming America and hundreds of YMCAs and other organizations nationwide in hosting events to…
BELFAST — Last week Waldo County General Hospital, welcomed a group of 24 seniors from Maine Maritime Academy for their Medical Person in Charge course.
This course is taught by MMA…
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center (PBMC) has earned a place in the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association roster of hospitals recognized for achievement in the Get With The…
AUGUSTA - State officials at the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry today announced that entomologists have confirmed the presence of emerald ash…
PORTLAND and ELLSWORTH–The Knox County Committee of the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) presented $2,500 grants to Midcoast Habitat for Humanity and the Knox County Homeless Coalition to mark…
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage has directed that both U.S. and State of Maine flags shall be lowered to half-staff today, Patriot Day, September 11. Flags will fly at half-staff for the entire…
CAMDEN - When eight women and one man are running around the Public Landing at Camden Harbor laughing and carrying on it's really nothing out of the ordinary. When those same individuals are all…
Helped by humans, he’s back in the neighborhood
ROCKLAND – On July 27, neighbors of Pacific and Lawrence streets in Rockland spent several hours listening to the cry of a crow.
Crows are vocal in this neighborhood, having staked their…
community workshops in Searsport and Belfast
The 2019 Farmer’s Almanac announced August 27 that we can expect “arctic air, blustery, bitter winds, sharp drops in temperature and widespread snow showers and squalls” this winter.
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The powerful thunderstorms, bringing rain and gusty winds, sped quickly through the Midcoast Thursday afternoon, felling limbs and some old trees.
Crews from Central Maine Power Co., a…
CAMDEN — P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center has kicked off their second annual Tree of Lights fundraising campaign in an effort to help shine a light in memory or in honor of beloved pets in our…
State officials are seeking public’s help in locating ash trees sold in Maine this summer
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) is seeking the public’s help in locating ash trees sold by a major retailer in Maine this summer. Entomologists are…
Students in grades K-5 at Thomaston Grammar School were excited today for their first day of the 2018-2019 school year.
Despite the heat, students spent time getting to know their new…
Music with the Right track, Sept. 20
ROCKPORT — United Midcoast Charities (UMC) will present its 2018 grantees as part of a community celebration at the Rockport Opera House on Thursday, September 20.
Representatives from the…
Keep to the schedule of building and opening by 2020
CAMDEN — In a joint meeting Aug. 29, the Camden-Rockport School Board, Middle School Building Committee, architects, contractors and a geo-engineer arrived at the same conclusion: To approve a…
Splash Dash Week celebration Sept. 4-7
MIDCOAST — On a warm August afternoon, Susan Beebe sat by the window of the red DASH bus as it edged around Rockland’s North End, chatting with Ricky Malo. They were both headed to Pen Bay Medical…
Silty clay results in new site work approach
CAMDEN — A joint meeting between the School Administrative District 28 School Board (Camden-…
Sept. 15 through 22
AUGUSTA — Volunteers are needed for Maine’s Coastweek Coastal Cleanup which begins Saturday September 15 and runs through Saturday September 22.
With dozens of clean up locations looking…
NEW LONDON N.H. - A pair of Belfast Area High School graduates have been elected as prominent members of the Student Government Association at Colby-Sawyer College,…
New trustees, officers appointed
CAMDEN-— Three new Trustees were elected at the annual meeting of the Camden-Rockport Historical Society on Wednesday, August 22.
Newly appointed trustees are Larry Goldman, Jenna Lookner…
New mission statement: ‘Be Kind. Work Hard. Keep Learning’
The School Administrative District 28 board of directors, which oversees K-8 grades in Camden and Rockport, ha produced a four-year strategic plan, which “outlines three strategic goal areas:…
LAFLEUR AMONG THE FIRST TO EARN CERTIFICATION
SHELBURNE, VERMONT — The Orton Family Foundation awarded certification to three Community Heart & Soul coaches at an event in Golden, Colorado on August 14. Camden resident Jane Lafleur was…
citizens initiate petition drive to get ordinance on ballot
CAMDEN — While everyone at the Aug. 21 Camden Select Board meeting agreed that plastic trash in the landscape and in oceans is deplorable, they disagreed on preventative measures. A proposed ban…
‘No child should have to be scared’
Walk through the halls of the emergency rooms at Pen Bay Medical Center or Waldo County General Hospital and you are bound to see children clutching stuffed animals.
One may think nothing…
Avian Haven on most common bird injuries, how to help
Summer is a dangerous time for birds, mainly due to human behavior and interference, but there is a lot we can do to be proactive and save their lives.
Avian Haven, a nationally known…
Delta Kappa Gamma Society International offers programs for female educators
AUSTIN, TEXAS —The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International (DKG), a professional organization of women educators, provided an intensive two-week leadership management seminar in 2018.
…
UNION — Maine’s 2018 Wild Blueberry Queen was crowned Aug. 20 at the Union Fair, amidst the fanfare of the Midcoast’s annual agricultural fair.
Whitney Helene Dow, of Waldoboro, is the…
More than $30,000 worth of clothing and accessories were donated by local clothing stores and individuals
ROCKLAND—The yellow barn at 20 Winter Street in Rockland turned into a glamorous boutique on Monday, Aug. 20, when New Hope For Women hosted a VIP Opening for its pop-up shop to support women and…
It’s getting to be that time....
Listed below are the 2018-2019 School bus routes for students from Camden/Rockport attending School Administrative District 28 and the FiveTown CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School). …
Maine’s botanists were surprised this summer to discover in Bowdoin a plant long thought to be eliminated from the Maine landscape. A field of Unicorn Root — approximately 300 flowering stems —…
ROCKLAND — Good Tern Co-op's "Round It Up!" program realizes perennial supporting numerous organizations in the area.
For the past few years, Good Tern Co-op has been running a highly…
Janet Redfield installs 100 glass fish in Portland elementary school
Lincolnville artist Janet Redfield recently installed 100 fused stained glass fish in hallways and spaces of the new Amanda C. Rowe School Elementary School, on Orono Road, in Portland. Redfield…
