The sixth annual Maine Harvest Festival will be held November 19 and 20 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. The event will be held Saturday (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and Sunday (10 a.m. to 4 p.m…

It's that time of year. Time for chowders like the one I made last week, and soups like the one I made last night — curried cream of butternut squash soup.

ROCKLAND - The weekend after Thanksgiving in Rockland is filled with a wide variety of holiday events, including the arrival of Santa Claus aboard a U.S. Coast Guard boat on Friday, Nov. 25, the…

Two local grassroots efforts have sprung up this week in Camden, one to unite women, minorities and LGBTQ people, the other specifically to champion women.

The informal group, Stand Up Speak…

Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills  released statistics on drug overdose deaths through the first nine months of 2016. With 286 deaths through the end of September, overdose deaths have…

Camden National Bank joined leaders and representatives from Maine's nonprofit community for the 2016 Leaders and Luminaries luncheon Nov. 10. Held during the Maine Association of Nonprofits…

According to a news release from the office of U.S. Senator Angus King, I-Maine, there is bipartisan legislation to convert the Independence at Home (IAH) Demonstration into a permanent, national…

The Camden Rotary Club continues its tradition of selling high-quality holiday nuts for gifts and entertaining. Nuts will be for sale on Saturdays in front of French & Brawn in…

WALDOBORO — The Waldoboro Toy Program is accepting donations for the 2016 holiday season. New and clean used toys, new mittens, winter hats…

Tobey Williamson spent four years of study and apprenticeship on Hawaii’s Big Island, and has now opened up his own clinic, Good…

In response to the depleted condition of the northern shrimp resource, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Northern Shrimp Section extended the moratorium on commercial fishing for…

CAMDEN — At the beginning of October, Betty McBrien, a professional cleaner at Lyman-Morse, noticed a herring gull in Camden hanging around the boat yard, looking for food. “I first noticed him…

Hot chowder on a cold day: The ultimate comfort food. Seriously. Imagine taking a long walk — like 10,000 steps — on one of these cold days. Like Angie McLellan, Julie…

Belfast voters helped carry the RSU 71 school construction and renovation bond question well into the favorable margin, with the total votes from the five school district towns coming in at 3,705…

WARREN — A burglary and vandalism overnight at Warren Community School prompted closure of the school for the day today, Tuesday, Nov. 8, and the nurse’s office was the target, according to Knox…

ROCKLAND — The Maine State Beekeepers Association Annual Meeting and Conference was held Oct. 15 in Rockland, and during the business portion of the event, Peter Lammert, of Thomaston, was named…

The Visual and Performing Arts Department congratulated Rebekah Schade on being named Student of the Month for October.

Bekah, a senior, has been involved in theater and music at Camden…

ROCKLAND — “We want to help the ocean,” said six-year-old Griffin in between head-boinking and wrestle-hugs with his two classmates during the reception for their art exhibit at the…

CAMDEN — Bald eagles used to be a common sight in Camden, back in the early 2000s when there was a nesting pair that annually worked hard to raise a family on Curtis Island. But a big storm…

ROCKPORT – Matthew Carter of Topsham owns Green Island Stone Work, and he spoke to the Rockport Garden Club at their regular…

The Wiscasset School Department has found its next special services director up the coast. The School Committee Thursday night met in a closed-door session, then re-opened the meeting and voted 4-…

ROCKPORT — The Educational Technician who took a handgun to Camden-Rockport Elementary School has resigned, according to a Nov. 3 news release from the superintendent’s office.

I used to pick mussels off the rocks in front of the cottage in Cushing at low tide.

We had them way too often when I was a kid. They…

BELFAST — The flags hung in downtown Belfast by Belfast’s Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW Legion Post 43) were taken down Oct. 26, in preparation for the coming winter.

The flags, the…

One step into Washington General and your mouth immediately begins to water. Warm and wide pine floors stretch beneath your feet, above, subtle lighting folds over the rustic beams. The store…

Lobster traps are useful for a variety of purposes. They are a working tool for hundreds of Maine lobster fishermen; a lawn decoration for folks from away, or a base for a coffee table on the…

ROCKLAND — On the evening of Tuesday, October 25, more than one hundred people comprised of students, families, and supporters gathered at Oceanside High School in Rockland to…

CAMDEN - Parents, neighbors and friends came through for the residents of Pearl Street in Camden once again, donating more than 100 pounds of bagged and wrapped candy to be given to the trick-or-…

UPDATE —  Tuffy has been missing since Sept. 11 when he escaped from his outdoor enclosure in Owls Head. His owners have been following up on possible sightings to no avail. They have hung…

ROCKLAND — Last year, Rockland resident Sharon Hobson, and Rhonda Nordstrom, owner of RHEAL day spa, came up with the idea to locally collect donated purses filled with sanitary items such as pads…

Okay, so a couple weeks ago I told you about my favorite choco, or chocolate cookies. At some point in my ramblings about those I mentioned my other favorite cookies: Ginger. I never shortened it…

Thousands of Maine children are living in poverty because of a crisis that goes unnamed. It is creating a generation of children who struggle in school, will have a hard time qualifying for a…

LINCOLNVILLE — The nonprofit Spirit of America Foundation was established in Augusta in 1990 to honor volunteerism, with the first award, from Augusta Mayor William Burney, given to Alma…

ROCKLAND - These are the lucky winners of the two raffles held during the Two Old Cops and an Angel event hosted by the Friends of Rockland Public Library on Sept. 23.

Barbara…

CAMDEN — United Mid-Coast Charities awarded $8,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine to support its youth mentoring programs in local Midcoast schools. The award was one of 58 grants,…

ROCKLAND —  As of October 30, 2016 all short term rentals will need to receive a permit to continue operating, according to a news release. However, because of delays on the City’s part,…

I know I've mentioned salads with hot pan fried sliced steak thrown on top — maybe more than once, but I haven't really stressed how good it is.

A hot steak salad is my go-to dinner —…

ROCKLAND — It began as pile of yarn, some knitting needles, empty boxes from various nonprofits and many dedicated volunteers, all at Rockland's Winslow Holbrook Memorial Park, corners of Main and…

AUGUSTA - USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service has reported that Maine horticulture sales increased 43.6 percent from $49.1 million in 2009 to $70.5 million in 2014. The number of Maine…

Ira Mandel and Knox County Recovery Coalition continue a series of Community Conversations in Thomaston, October 25, at 7 p.m., and Warren, October 27, 7 p.m., about building stronger communities…

Incredible as it is to believe, before the 20th Century, chocolate had hardly any place in baked goods. At that time, this sweet brown confection was something a person drank, according to Food…

LINCOLNVILLE — It can happen before you know it, and without realizing you've let your dogs outside to do their business in the yard at the absolute worst time. For our family, the witching hour…

According to Maine's Official Fall Foliage website, all but coastal parts of Down East are at peak color, but there is still plenty of color to see and not a lot of leaf drop yet.

The 2016…

The Island Institute, in Rockland, has been selected to receive a USDA Rural Development Rural Community Development Initiative…

Choco cookies: That's what I wrote on the recipe card 30 years ago, when I was into shortening any word that could be shortened: lobs, spags and balls and choco were…

CAMDEN - Back in 2003, Camden police still drove down Pearl Street on Halloween night, making sure that the treats outweighed the tricks, and the mischief-makers were kept at bay. But a few years…

The Purse Project begins its second annual collection campaign Monday, October 17.  Last year’s Purse Project collected over 190 purses filled with feminine hygiene and…

On Sunday, October 23, Shastri Christopher St. John and Eunice St. John will lead a full-day meditation retreat, or Nyinthun,…

THOMASTON — Great Midcoast food was no stranger to the Knox Museum in Thomaston October 8 at the popular Taste of Thomaston. For the first time, the event was held inside the museum. Held in 2013…

CAMDEN — Last Friday, eighth graders at the Camden-Rockport Middle School put on a bake sale to raise awareness of Immune Thrombocytopenia Purpura. Ruben Feldman, who spearheaded the bake…