CAMDEN - It doesn’t matter if you’re big or small, short or tall, we all love ice cream. Based on consumer surveys, vanilla and chocolate are still the most popular flavors to consume among…
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Camden Windjammer Festival...Labor Day weekend
CAMDEN — As regular as the Camden Windjammer Festival, the Camden Rotary Club has cooked and served breakfast on the public landing Saturday morning for the last 23 years.
Blueberry…
Camden Windjammer Festival...Labor Day weekend
CAMDEN — For many years sailing, Labor Day weekend in Camden has been a time for celebrating the town’s and the region’s rich nautical heritage. The annual Camden Windjammer Festival brings in…
I call shotgun!
OWLS HEAD — Pilot Charles Lynch of White Plains, NY, joked about being the pilot of his WWII plane. “When we arrive at an airshow and that lower door opens, the kids jump…
Mark Fourre, now at LincolnHealth, to move slightly Down East
The…
Mitch Littlefield recalls The Chicken Capital of the World in his book ‘Memories of Shucking Peas’
BELFAST — Life for a Maine farm boy was a lot of work growing up in the 1950s and 1960s—but it wasn’t something you complained about. “Those were hard days,” said Belfast native Mitch Littlefield…
On Eating and Loving Food
OK, so as I said last week this column has been dragging on for half a year now. I just counted 25 food columns! Yikes! Time flies.
I’…
A glimpse through the lenses of the teen photographers from the Bronx
ROCKLAND — In his New York City neighborhood, Brunswick native Michael Kamber stands out for the color of his skin. He is Caucasian within a darker, more diverse neighborhood of the South Bronx. …
On Maine Wild Blueberry Festival Day at the Union Fair, Aug. 27, Kimberly Maekin Reed, of Warren, was crowned the 2016 Maine Wild Blueberry Queen.
Kimberly is a 2012…
CAMDEN — The old saying is “No good deed goes unpunished,” but in 5-year-old Andrew Laidlaw’s case, a good deed had a quick payback in the form of a sweet catch out of Hosmer Pond in Camden.
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A virtual tour of the brand new 10,000-square-foot building
THOMASTON — After three years of fundraising and planning, and more than a year since they broke ground, the new Pope Memorial Humane Society of Knox County animal shelter building unveiled its…
Labor Day Weekend...
OWLS HEAD — Antique and vintage motorcycles take center stage at the Owls Head Transportation Museum's annual Vintage Motorcycle Festival and Antique Aeroplane Show on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3…
It was a grand evening for a picnic
THOMASTON – It was a great evening for a picnic. Mike Miller's Steelin' Thunder played to the crowd on the outdoor stage at the General…
HOPE — Stories and Images from Malawi: Argy Nestor, Lindsay Pinchbeck and Rob Pfeiffer present stories and images from recent volunteer opportunities with Go! Malawi on Wednesday, Aug. 31, at 7 p.…
Support LifeFlight of Maine’s training and education program
NORTHPORT and ISLESBORO— The Islesboro Crossing for LifeFlight, an open water fundraising swim, has been steadily growing since…
On Aug. 16, the Impossible Dream sailed into Boothbay Harbor again, just short of a year after its first trip here last year.
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Okay so I cheated you out of a recipe last week. I'm sorry, but every time I started writing about the one I'm going to give you this week, my ADD kicked in and I got…
Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm
UNITY/NORTHPORT — Ten years ago, Robin Fowler Pratt and Corry Pratt started Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm in Unity. Back then, they had dreams of creating a wonderful place to raise and care for…
Meeting Aug. 22
The RSU 71 School Board (Belfast, Belmont, Morrill, Searsmont and Swanville) will meet Monday, Aug. 22, at 6:30 p…
Reports of multiple tick-borne diseases to Maine Center for Disease Control are indicating an increase in all tick-borne diseases, according…
A new Relational Health Certificate Program, "Promoting a Positive Workplace and Community Culture," will be offered in six daylong sessions, Oct. 14-March 10, at the University of Maine…
The MCH Kitchen Appeal Committee celebrated breaking ground for the kitchen expansion at the Methodist Conference Home…
On eating and loving food
So, on the off chance any of you were freaking out because my food column didn’t appear in last week’s Boothbay Register, Wiscasset Newspaper and Penbay Pilot, relax, I…
It’s getting to be that time....
Listed below are the 2016-2017 School bus routes for students from Camden/Rockport attending School Administrative District 28 (K-8) and the FiveTown CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School). Again…
Be involved. Transplant hope
CAMDEN — Tracy Jalbuena is a mother of two and an emergency room doctor in the Midcoast, sworn to care for everyone in need, regardless of ability to pay. She has developed multiple myeloma and…
Each year Camden Rotary provides a special grant to a youth-oriented program. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine's 1-to-1 Mentoring Program received this year's grant, which was…
T-shirt and new benefits for helping at the festival...
CAMDEN — Camden's newest downtown gathering spot, Sea Dog Brewing Company, is offering an added benefit to all Windjammer Festival volunteers this Labor Day weekend.
Sea Dog Brewing,…
(AUGUSTA)-- Ground-level ozone concentrations will be climbing in Maine on Thursday and are expected to reach unhealthy levels according to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).…
Aug. 1-31
ROCKLAND — Rockland Public Library and the Coastal Children's Museum have teamed up for a School Supply Drive to benefit the Regional School Union 13 school district. Donations will be accepted…
Elizabeth Evans has rubbed elbows with some celebrities.
These days she can usually be found at the East Boothbay General Store, at…
As many of you may know, the planning process for a new library for Rockport is currently underway. We attended the public meeting at Rockport Opera House recently to find out what is being…
This is the season where there is something going on all the time and weekends are on overload. Sometimes it's hard to experience everything that's happening because there's just not enough time.…
Music, food, cardboard boat racing, 5K, family fun...
BELFAST — Seventh annual Belfast Harborfest is happening Friday-Sunday, Aug. 19-21. Music, 5K, pancake breakfast, cardboard boat building and racing, rowing regatta, classic small boat show, beer…
Briar Lyons: ‘Every time it has taken more time, we have benefited and I think the project has benefited’
LINCOLNVILLE — When your heart lives in two places, and you're blessed to be able to physically live in either location as circumstances demand or desire calls, eventually the time comes when you…
There’s a new fast food joint on Route 1 in Wiscasset, beside Twisted Iron Customs, a custom shop for anything having to do with motorcycles.
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On eating and loving food
I like fast food joints.
That's not to say I'm a fast food junkie, but I'm not above stopping at a McDonald's or a fast food takeout…
ROCKPORT — An unusual special election held Aug. 2 in Rockport resulted in the election of one new school board member to serve on School Administrative District 28 and the Five Town CSD, and…
LINCOLNVILLE — This week, all across Maine, wherever there are wild blueberry barrens you’ll find people of all ages in the fields picking the tiny, sweet blue jewels the state is known for - at…
ROCKPORT — A time capsule buried in 1980 in Macon, Ga., by students at Taylor Elementary School contained “many documents about what life, style, fads, fashion and political events were happening…
Aug. 3 Coronation
ROCKLAND — The Maine Lobster Festival coronation committee has announced the names of the 13 young ladies who will vie for the title of Maine Sea Goddess at the 2016 Festival, Aug. 3-7.
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Appleton Library...
APPLETON — What would you do if you answered the door one snowy winter night, and there stood a wild bear, begging to come in by your fire? So begins the story of Two Roses and a Burly Bear…
The federal government, through several different agencies, is sending money to Maine to work on manufacturing, and economic development initiatives across Maine.…
BELFAST — A professional gardener's perennial beds, vegetable gardens and a woodland walk are sixth in Belfast Garden Club's Open Garden Days on Friday, July 29. The gardens of Emily Rogals and…
SEARSPORT –The second board meeting of the Maine Ocean School (Maine School of Marine Science, Technology, Transportation and Engineering School) was held in Searsport, July 25. While…
Okay I know I’ve said this so many times you’re probably sick of hearing it but I really do love food, and eating. As I say in my disclaimer at the bottom of each of my columns I’m not a chef and…
A better future with help from Knox County Homeless Coalition, community volunteers
ROCKPORT — Her father dying of brain cancer was heartbreaking enough for then 16-year-old Michaela, but she had no idea how much tougher life was to become. She and her mother became homeless…
David Switft’s father restores antique, historic fire apparatus...
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — On the morning of July 23, Kathy and Andy Swift of Hope learned that their eldest son, David, and his wife, Margaret, had been forced to flee their rented home in Santa…
2016 Maine Lobster Festival Aug. 3-7
ROCKLAND — The U.S.S. Oak Hill, LSD 51 (originally LSD 7), will anchor in Rockland Harbor for the Maine Lobster Festival this year.
The U.S.S. Oak Hill is the second ship…
A professional gardener’s perennial beds, vegetable gardens and a woodland walk are sixth in Belfast Garden Club’s Open Garden Days on Friday, July 29.…
ROCKPORT — NuDay Syria volunteers will be loading a shipping container for shipment directly to Northwestern Syria today, July 21, and the public is invited to help. Through the Maine…
