An Oceanside Middle School student is among the winners of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) 2022 Lyme Disease Awareness Month poster contest. Maine CDC holds the…
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surveying middle and high school youth from traditionally forest-dependent communities
Rural areas centered around the forest industry have faced uncertain economic times. Global competition, coupled with the decline of print media and national recessions, have decreased…
When they catch a ride, BTM may set up house in a new area
The Maine Forest Service asks everyone to check cars, trucks, boats, bikes, ATVs, and other vehicles for wandering browntail moth (BTM) caterpillars. Now through late June, BTM caterpillars become…
Mid Coast ATV club members enjoyed the first club ride of the season on Sunday, May 15, on the Sunrise Trail.
“ATV clubs educate on ATV safety, promote land owner respect and of course…
FAIRFIELD — Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC) is set to graduate 375 students at its May 21 Commencement Ceremony, at 10 a.m., at the Augusta Civic Center. The ceremony is the College’s…
ORONO — 3D printing, nanotechnology and weeds might not seem like a natural combination. For Sonora Ortiz, though, solving practical farm tasks with advanced technology might just be the key to…
WALPOLE — Scientists, students and staff at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center are gearing up for a busy summer season. More than 20 undergraduate and high school student interns will…
Forty Flavors of Scones and Live Music Saturday, May 28
NORTHPORT — Whenever Veronica Stubbs speaks about her business, her face lights up with a combination of total joy and mild astonishment. Give her a few minutes and she will invariably recount a…
BELFAST — Registration is open for two STEM-related summer courses at the UMaine Hutchinson Center: Concepts in Oceanography, and Introduction to Integrated Science and Career Exploration. Both…
BELFAST — The Belfast Area Friends Meeting (BAFM), a Quaker congregation, is now gathering in person, as well as online, on Sunday mornings at 11 a.m., at a new location – Social Capital, at 28…
Both budgets increase
On Tuesday, May 17 the Camden Rockport Schools and Five Town CSD School Boards will hold School Budget Meetings to present the 2022-23 school budget and vote on the separate warrant articles. …
bird walks May 16 - 21
BELFAST — Join the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition for Bird Week: a week long series of bird walks to various wild places in the watershed.
All bird trips begin at 7 a.m., canceled if…
CAMDEN — The agenda has been set for the next SAD 28 school board meeting Wednesday, May 18.
The meeting will be held in the Rose Hall Board Room at Camden-Rockport Middle School at 7 p.m…
Wiscasset school committee
Veteran school administrator Robert England Jr. figures challenges such as those the pandemic gave education can be viewed in one of two ways: “You can look at things as either depressing, or you…
UNION — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 40 school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Thursday, May 19 at 7 p.m. via livestream and in the district’s central…
HOPE — The school committee agenda for the next Hope Elementary School committee meeting is set.
The meeting will be held Tuesday, May 17 at 6 p.m.
Participants can attend in-…
APPLETON — The school committee for the Appleton Village School will hold its next committee meeting Monday, May 16 and the agenda for the meeting has been set.
The meeting will be at 4:30…
‘these supply chain issues may cause delays’
MaineHealth and Northern Light Health are closely monitoring the global shortage of IV contrast media used in CT and other diagnostic procedures that is being caused by disruptions at production…
AUGUSTA — Sixteen Maine teachers were announced as 2022 County Teachers of the Year at a ceremony Thursday, May 12 in the Hall of Flags at the Maine State Capitol Building.
Governor Janet…
be prepared to deal with the pesky insect again this summer
Browntail moths, the invasive pests that can cause irritable rashes, breathing problems and extensive tree damage, have begun to emerge from their winter webs with experts predicting a likely…
Renovation work is expected to begin on the building next month
PORTLAND — MaineHealth announced today it is opening a food pantry, in partnership with Good Shepherd Food Bank, in the former Greyhound bus station at 950 Congress Street, in Portland.
…
Downeast Trout Unlimted
Join Downeast Trout Unlimted for its last meeting of the season with a talk by Lou Zambello: 20 Awesome Places to Fly Fish in New England that you may not have heard of or tried.
The…
Belfast Area High School Marine Institute students recently chartered a boat to take them out to a working kelp farm off Islesboro in preparation for the Marine Institute's own kelp…
BELFAST — As they dig and divide this spring, area gardeners are invited to donate some of their bounty to the Belfast Garden Club’s popular annual plant sale next month.
The plant sale…
Several students at Thomaston Grammar School were recognized for responsibly and having a positive attitude at a school-wide assembly April 26.
Students receiving the Responsibility Award…
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Breakwater is approximately one mile long, as most of its regular walkers know, and it is not easy footing – you have to watch the cracks and grooves between the uneven…
BELFAST — The agenda for the upcoming Regional School Unit 71 school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Monday, May 9 at 5:30 p.m. in the high school’s band room.
…
SEARSPORT — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 20 school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Tuesday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the SDMHS cafetorium.
…
APPLETON — The school committee for the Appleton Village School will hold a virtual special committee meeting Tuesday, May 10.
The meeting will take place over Zoom at 5:30 p.m.
…
many ceremonies to be held this weekend
Maine’s public universities will award more than 4,500 degrees at upcoming in-person commencement ceremonies for 2022 graduates.
Maine’s public universities will host in-person…
FAIRFIELD — Any Maine high school graduate from the classes of 2020, 2021, 2022, or 2023 is now eligible to receive free full-time tuition to Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC), effective…
ROCKPORT — On Monday, May 2, 2022, the members of Scouting BSA Troop 200 participated in a road cleanup along Rockville Street in Rockport. The community organization, “Keep Rockport Beautiful”…
ROCKLAND - Natalie Lindahl is a freshman at Camden Hills Regional High School, a young woman with long blond hair. That all changed, however, May 3, with a visit to…
The Carver Memorial Library in Searsport invites the public to join Five Animal Qigong, a movement series similar to tai chi.
This series is a fun and friendly introduction to Turtle,…
basic adult life skills
University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will offer a short-term online 4-H club for youth ages 13–18 about basic adult life skills Wednesdays, June 22 – July 27, from 4 – 5:30 p.m. Required…
Beginning on May 9
ROCKPORT — The Pharmacy at Pen Bay Medical Center, the full-service retail pharmacy located inside the hospital, is temporarily adjusting its hours of operation.
Beginning on May 9, 2022,…
The Rockport Community Gardens at The Marge Jones Recreational Area on Route 90 still has plots available for the 2022 growing season.
The Gardens have convenient parking and an excellent…
Lyme Disease Awareness Month
SCARBOROUGH — May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and scientists with the Vector-Borne Disease Lab at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute (MMCRI) are conducting several surveys and…
UNION — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 40 school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Thursday, May 5 at 7 p.m. via livestream and in the district’s central…
ROCKPORT — The agenda for the next Five Town CSD school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Wednesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. in the Bisbee Theater at Camden-Rockport Middle…
The situation has created myriad health problems
For seven years, off and on, Cheryl Harkins lived out of her car and in a homeless encampment in Portland. Harkins, who is 100% disabled related to degenerative conditions, said her legs would…
ROCKLAND — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 13 school board meeting is set. The meeting will be held Thursday, May 5.
The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the South School…
tips for avoiding scams
Detective Scott Hayden, of the Lincoln County Sheriff Department, spoke to residents at The Lincoln Home about a number of scams that target seniors. Although his presentation was geared to…
CAMDEN — Watershed senior Thor Gabrielsen has been named a semifinalist of the 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholars, making him one of six semifinalists in Maine. (There are three male semifinalists…
BANGOR — Husson University has named eight students that will be this year’s valedictorians and four individuals, including a Frankfort native, that will be salutatorians.
“Our eight…
event returns after two year pandemic hiatus
Belfast Area High School’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance Club (GSA), now in its eighth year, has recently missed the Pride Parade and Festival in Belfast due to COVID restrictions the past two…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Legislature approved funding earlier this week for a measure sponsored by Rep. Scott Cuddy, D-Winterport, that bolsters the Maine Apprenticeship Program and supports pre-…
New Hope Midcoast, the domestic violence resource center serving Midcoast Maine since 1981 and a member of the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, is one of 200 finalists for a State Farm…
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