The Camden Hills Regional High School Visual and Performing Arts Department is pleased to recognize Jack Nathan as a Student of the Month for June.
Jack has been involved in the…
Life
BELFAST — The Belfast Area High School has released its fourth quarter honor roll.
Grade 9
HIGH HONORS:
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RSU 71’s summer food program serves more than 200 kids a day three days a week
BELFAST — Many adults remember what it was like to have to attend summer school when they were children. On a sweltering hot day inside a classroom while one’s friends were outside playing or at…
The Camden Hills Regional High School Visual and Performing Arts Department named Eric Glaser as the May Student of the Month. This recognition comes on the heels of a year of hard work within…
BELFAST — One-on-one academic advising and student support services are available at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast for Maine adults who want to complete college degrees they…
BELFAST — Beginning Sept. 4, the University of Maine Hutchinson Center will offer fall courses suitable for qualified high school students as part of UMaine's early college programming.
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The College Next program recently graduated six students from the Spring course. These students successfully completed their preparation for college and several are already enrolled in…
BELFAST — Broadreach Family & Community Services Board Chair Sharon Goguen said in a news release that she is pleased to announce that Todd Goodwin has been named as the new Executive Director…
ORONO — This past flu season in Maine was the worst in at least five years, according to the Centers for Disease Control, with 9,018 reported cases, 82 deaths and 1,750 hospitalizations.
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Rockland’s URock now a UMA Center
The University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) is expanding and making higher education more accessible to Mainers statewide. After a revisioning process led by UMA President Rebecca Wyke over the 2017…
Ground-level ozone concentrations will be climbing in Maine on Tuesday and are expected to reach unhealthy levels according to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. The major heat…
To analyze’ undergrounding, new technologies, such as batteries, microgrids
Central Maine Power said June 28 that it would, under its parent company, Avangrid (NYSE: AGR), invest $2.5 billion in a resiliency plan to harden its power grid and minimize storm damage, all in…
CAMDEN — Watershed School has received a prestigious grant in the amount of $75,000 from the Edward E. Ford Foundation. The Edward E. Ford Foundation, which challenges and inspires schools to…
Tours begin in July
ROCKPORT — Summer is here and the black and white Belted Galloways are grazing the green pastures at Aldermere Farm in Rockport. For those who would like to learn about the farm, Maine Coast…
30-year-old interview project documented Waldo County residents, way of life
BELFAST — The Belfast Historical Society and Museum has received a $3000 grant from the William and Emily Muir Community Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. The funds will be used to publish a…
Leaps of Imagination, Watershed Institute additional grant recipients
PORTLAND – The Knox County Committee of the Maine Community Foundation has awarded more than $36,000 in grants to 13 nonprofits to expand services that enable older adults in Knox County to remain…
Staff hopes public recycles more
Mid-Coast Solid Waste Corporation, serving the Towns of Camden, Hope, Lincolnville and Rockport, gives notice of bag fee increases effective July 1, 2018. The pricing change was reviewed and…
The Thomaston 4th of July Committee voted between three slogans based on the theme of education and teaching for the 2018 parade theme, and this year it is "Learning, it's a Lifelong…
During a journalism career that spanned three decades, photographer Peter Southwick produced images that appeared in publications around the world. As a staff photographer for the Associated Press…
In a new space in Belfast with doubled square footage
BELFAST— Two years ago, Lee Parent had just opened her first brick and mortar business, Kids Unplugged, in the Reny’s Plaza with the aim of unplugging kids from screen time and actively engaging…
Bond premium secured; Auditorium to get built; fundraising necessary for playground equipment
CAMDEN — Moving slowly and methodically, sometimes even painfully, through a five-page spreadsheet of construction details and associated numbers, the School Administrative District 28 School…
summer nights are the time of bullfrogs
On an early spring visit to our friends' farm in Lincolnville, we all strolled down to the farm pond to see if we could find any frog's eggs. Sure enough, we spotted the gelatinous masses of wood…
BANGOR — War Memorial Post 30, Camden American Legion, took their color guard to Bangor along with banners and flags to march in the American…
ST. GEORGE — The St. George Business Alliance (SGBA) recognized St. George resident and Oceanside High School senior Julia Kurr as the first recipient of a $1,000 SGBA scholarship at Oceanside's…
WRFR FM radio program airs June 27 at 1 p.m.
WALDOBORO — Waldoboro Chief Bill Labombarde has joined with numerous Lincoln County law enforcement and corrections officers, as well as addiction treatment professionals to adopt a "common sense…
Being aware of our health is our job
Let’s talk about gastro-intestinal issues.
Experiencing bouts of gas, bloating, acid reflux, diarrhea and constipation is not healthy. If you are having these symptoms, your body could be…
Second grade teacher Alison Babb debuts wearable canvas on last day of school
With all of the heartbreaking stories in the national news recently, it’s refreshing to hear of a local story in which children were honored and celebrated. St. George second grade teacher Alison…
Only arboretum along coastal Maine holds grand reopening June 23
CAMDEN — A dark blue and white butterfly, and then another, swoop suddenly in front of Brett Willard, their dark blue and glinting silver wings moving through the green trees. “They’re White…
More than $17,000 will benefit KCHC
ROCKLAND —If you were anywhere near Maverick Street in Rockland on Saturday you couldn't miss the scent of grilled steak wafting through the air from the Hannaford parking lot.
Chef Kerry…
CAMDEN – Long Grain restaurant, formally of 31 Elm Street, has moved around the corner to its new home at 20 Washington Street in Camden. The move was made by staff and friends on on Sunday and…
MCH, Inc., based in Rockland, would like the public to know that it no longer operates Coastal Trans. MCH empowers individuals, primarily older adults and people with…
Maine Water Company and A&L Laboratory of Auburn have expanded of a long-standing laboratory relationship between the two companies to deliver new efficiencies for Midcoast residents,…
CAMDEN – Are you between 21 and 35 years old and interested in improving your leadership skills? Or are you an employer who would like to give a promising young person an excellent professional…
CAMDEN — The location of the June 20 SAD 28 and the Five Town CSD School Board meetings has been changed. The meetings will now be held in the Camden-Rockport Middle School cafeteria as opposed…
contestants for the annual competition
The Maine Lobster Festival said 13 women will be competing for the title of Maine Sea Goddess at the 71st Maine Lobster Festival. This year’s Maine Sea Goddess Coronation will take place on August…
Union, Rockport among municipalities
ORONO — The Maine Government Summer Internship Program opened its 2018 session May 29 with 55 students interning with the state and with municipal governments.…
ROCKLAND — The Island Institute has awarded scholarships to 58 island students pursuing post-secondary education at colleges, universities, and technical schools across the United States and…
ozone and particle pollution to reach unhealthy levels
AUGUSTA — Ground-level ozone concentrations will be climbing in Maine on Monday, June 18, and are expected to reach unhealthy levels according to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection,…
CAMDEN – For the second year in a row, the Camden Rockport Middle School held its eighth grade sculpture race. Students designed, built and then raced their sculptures uphill on Knowlton Street in…
Landscaper’s vision to transform property behind house to contemplative ampitheatre
ROCKLAND—Behind the modest house on 198 Broadway, where famed poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born, sits approximately a half acre of undeveloped land. In a stand of poplar trees, with a stream…
OWLS HEAD – The current principal’s office at Central School was once the teacher’s lounge. The closet that became the teacher’s lounge is now a classroom. Nearby, the nurse’s sink once held the…
Almost 600 crowd into gymnasium to settle the matter
CAMDEN — Neither Camden nor Rockport has had quite the meeting turnout in many years as what the public school district drew on Monday evening. Almost 600 young and old residents poured through…
Camden-Rockport holds June 11 meeting for middle school construction financing, secret ballot voting
Meeting is being livestreamed. -https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UbiFH048Ic
CAMDEN — On Monday evening, June 11, the School…
Lion Nikki Bland announced the Camden Maine LIons Club 2018 scholarships at the Camden Hills Regional HIgh School Awards Ceremony May 7th. Each of the eight scholarships is $1,000. The…
SOUTH THOMASTON — In April, Trekkers Team Allagash and Team Penobscot completed their 11th grade College/Career Exploration expeditions. A total of 23 students and 10 adult mentors (Team Allagash…
May 31 event celebrated art, music by students
THOMASTON —The Thomaston Grammar School hosted “Fine Arts Night” on the evening of May 31. Artwork created throughout the year in Janelle Eddy's art classes was on display throughout the lobby and…
Prepares for 71st annual House & Garden Tour
CAMDEN — Outgoing President, Ann Vanosdol announced Camden Garden Club's new officers at the meeting held on May 24 at the First Congregational Church in Camden. Karen Cease will take over as…
opinion
I was at the Camden Select Board meeting on June 6 and have been closely following the middle school cost issue. While I understand that you have all given countless hours to this…
Annual Town Meeting
ROCKPORT — They are to be called Tiny Havens of Hope, and the Hospitality House is teaming up with Midcoast Habitat for Humanity to build 11 of them on the nonprofit’s 5.6 acres on Old County Road…
Tech-free summer ideas
BELFAST— Tom Seymour, an expert Maine forager, never thought his lifelong interest in scouring fields, forests, riverbeds and shorelines for wild edibles would be interesting to anyone else, but…
