“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw
That was the first quote I borrowed for my…
Life
On Eating and Loving Food
Midcoast Athletics
ROCKPORT — With Wade Ward leaving the Camden Hills boys lacrosse team after three seasons to coach the school’s girls lacrosse team, a new leader has emerged for the Windjammer boys.
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BELFAST — A two-day workshop focused on mindful leadership in professional and workplace settings will be offered this spring at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center at 80 Belmont Ave.,…
AUGUSTA — Rep. Owen Casas wants constituents to know that Maine State Treasurer Hayes has announced $11.6 Million in new unclaimed property.
Unclaimed property can be cash and other…
Midcoast Athletics
The high school basketball regular season concluded Thursday, Feb. 8, and the playoffs are set to open this week.
The Penobscot Bay Pilot asked the local head coaches of the eight teams…
WALDO COUNTY — Do you have a child who will turn four on or before Oct. 15, 2018? It’s time to register for pre-kindergarten. Do you have a child who will turn five on or before Oct. 15, 2018? It’…
ROCKLAND — University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) Provost Joseph Szakas has announced the 2017 Fall Semester Full-Time Dean's List. Students eligible for the full-time students' Dean's List must…
ROCKLAND — University College at Rockland's student body continues to change. Enrollment for this spring semester which started January 22 is steady with just under 500 students enrolled and close…
Midcoast Athletics
ROCKPORT — After serving as the Camden Hills varsity boys lacrosse coach for the past three seasons, Wade Ward is making a significant change for the upcoming season.
Instead of coaching…
Camden Hills Regional High School, in Rockport, has released its second quarter honor roll.
Grade 9…
THOMASTON — In late January, several Trekkers Alumni met with members of the Trekkers staff to discuss Alumni involvement with the organization. This was the first meeting of a new initiative…
Start dreaming of spring!
It's that time of year again! Even though it is still snowing, it's not too early to plan for spring. This year we have our largest offering ever: 167 varieties, 36 of them brand new – 59 bareroot…
The University of Maine recognized 2,229 students for achieving Dean's List honors in the fall 2017 semester. Of the students who made the Dean's List, 1,611 are from Maine, 559 are…
Opinion
The School Administrative District 28 School Board wants to ensure a transparent process for the potential repurposing of the Mary E. Taylor (MET) wing of the current Camden Rockport Middle School…
Nina June's winter cooking classes continue with Naples (Italy not Maine) coming up on February 12. Join Chef Sara Jenkins in a hands-on 3-hour class as they make crazy…
Planet Toys offers special gift certificates for children in the Knox Family Homeless Coalition
CAMDEN—With Christmas and the holiday season come and go, there is still one other special day in every child’s life—a birthday.
Richard and Kit Aroneau, owners of the toy store Planet…
education and conservation
The Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition, in partnership with Searsport Shores Oceanfront Camping, will offer the Penobscot Bay Stewards Program to area residents. This is a unique…
police confident it was a hoax
UPDATE: CAMDEN-ROCKPORT — The threatening email received this morning by an administrator at the local school districts in Camden and Rockport, and which subsequently closed Camden Hills Regional…
KINDNESS MATTERS is a campaign designed to change the way people interact with each other. It is the legacy of a 13-year old who took his own life after…
On Eating and Loving Food
Roast a chicken. It costs somewhere around 6 or 7 bucks for a smallish one, and if you live alone, like I do, you can get a lot of mileage out of it. I love that,…
BELFAST — The Belfast Area High School has released its second quarter honor roll.
Grade 9
HIGH HONORS:
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‘You don’t deserve anything, you only deserve what you earn’
GORHAM — Matthew Wheeler was not always a wrestler.
In fact, it was not even Wheeler’s idea for him to join the wrestling program at Thorndike’s Mount View High School.
Wheeler’s…
Saving an estimated 7,900 gallons of oil per year
ROCKLAND – Brooks Winner, Nathan Davis and the rest of the Rockland Energy Advisory Committee connected with donors, held an energy fair, advertised, and then canvassed the city door to door.…
It’s not just about collecting moth eggs
In 1934, 18 people formed the Rockport Garden Club. Initial projects included collecting 20,000 gypsy moth eggs, brush clearing at Piper Block, landscaping at the elementary school and planting…
ROCKLAND – The downtown merchants who spoke to council on Monday, Feb. 5, don’t object to a proposed single-use plastic bag ban in Rockland. In fact, several of them took steps toward conservation…
The following students earned academic honors during the second academic quarter at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro.
Grade 9: High Honors: Zachary Cheesman, Ian…
Camden doctor Frederick Goggans has been appointed to the Maine Medical Advisory Board as an addiction specialist.
Maine’s Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap welcomed Goggans to the board…
Actress/comedian Amy Poehler first coined the term “Galentine’s Day” in a 2010 Parks and Recreation episode as a way to celebrate one’s girlfriends on …
ROCKLAND — All families need resources every now and then. CPPC has established a room on the lower level of the Rockland Public Library called the Family Resource Hub that offers those resources…
Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General hospital
Childbirth Preparation Class
Saturday, February 3, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Waldo County General Hospital, Classroom, Ground Floor
118…
Response to Critical Workforce Shortage
Engineering employment has grown 25 percent over the last decade and Maine firms annually seek to fill more than 1,400 engineering vacancies that are critical to maintaining state i…
CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy recently named 419 students to the Dean’s List for outstanding…
The Midcoast Maine Holistic Health Event Center at the Belfast Breeze Inn is seeking a team of three to four "culinary volunteers" to assist cooking class instructors with the set-up and…
Next week, February 5 to 9, is No Name-Calling Week hosted by the Camden Hills Regional High School Civil Rights Team and in collaboration with members of the GSTA, Special Olympic athletes,…
On Wednesday, March 14, Oceanside High School will again host a Career Day for approximately 500 students. Career Day supports students in exploring a wide range of careers by engaging with…
Lincolnville Selectmen to meet with School Committee; roof repairs, ball field maintenance on agenda
LINCOLNVILLE — Town selectmen and the Lincolnville School Committee meets this evening at 6 p.m. to address an agenda that includes hearing an update on the school roof repairs and ball field…
I had a colonoscopy on Jan. 16, and in part one, last week, I talked about the days leading up to the procedure.…
CAMDEN – Every Monday morning at the Chestnut Street Baptist Church, 29 Chestnut Street, the community is invited to enjoy breakfast together. The breakfast begins at 6:30 a.m. and is served until…
Opinion
Disbelief, in this day and age, where the media is reporting on it weekly and almost everyone that you meet has been touched by Lyme or tick-borne disease, and yet you walk into a medical provider…
ROCKLAND – Wouldn’t a warm piece of pie in Rockland, Maine taste great on a chilly Sunday afternoon? How about 50 pieces? The …
Husson University announced Jan. 25 that Camden National Bank has pledged $25,000 toward the construction of a proposed new College of Business building on the educator's Bangor campus.
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All gardeners out there, both beginners and experienced, who enjoy growing new plants, will enjoy the annual Seed Swap Day (Saturday, Feb. 10) at Knox & Lincoln Counties Extension, 377…
Fundraising campaign underway
The Camden Area Christian Food Pantry has begun its winter ground breaking for a new addition at 128 Mount Battie Street in Camden. Despite the cold season, contractors were able to dig out and…
November referendum
ROCKPORT — Voting 5 to 2, the School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8) School Board voted to put the question of whether to repurpose the Mary E. Taylor school building out to…
health and wellness
We need our memory to find our way to and from the store, to and from work, and to and from home. We need our memory to keep appointments, pay bills, problem solve and manage other daily…
ROCKPORT — February is American Heart Month, and as a leading community-based organization dedicated to improving the nation's health, the Penobscot Bay YMCA offers the following tips to help…
On Eating and Loving Food
Until a couple weeks ago I’d never baked bacon.
I had heard, from my sister, Wendy, and others, that baking bacon was the only way to go: No greasy frying pan splattering fat all over the…
Getting down to details: ‘Preservation plan cheaper than demolition’
ROCKPORT — Michael Mullins, of Rockland and Boston, remains interested in leasing the basement of the Mary E. Taylor building on Knowlton Street, in Camden, and has submitted follow-up plans to…
Collegiate Women’s Rowing
HANOVER, N.H. — Abigail Chamberlin has taken a unique journey into being a collegiate rower — a journey that almost never happened.
The Camden Hills Regional High School alumna and Camden…
SOUTH THOMASTON — Trekkers is gearing up to welcome 40 new 7th graders from its six town service area of Thomaston, Cushing, St. George, South Thomaston, Owls Head and Rockland. Enrollment…
