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ROCKPORT — Camden-Rockport Elementary School welcomes students who reside in Camden or Rockport to register for Kindergarten for the 2022-23 school year.

Your child must be 5 years old on…

stories, craft activities, and a scavenger hunt

School-age children on vacation are invited to join Camden Public Library children’s librarian Miss Amy online for “Virtual Vacation Camp” activities for three days, February 23-25, 2022, at 3 p.m…

BURLINGTON, VT — Isobel Kelly of Waldo was named to the Champlain College Trustees' List for the Fall 2021 semester.

Students on the Trustees' List have achieved a 4.0 grade point average…

The Universities of Maine and New Hampshire Cooperative Extension programs have joined forces to help produce farmers start or improve their Farm Food Safety Planning with Jumpstart to Farm Food…

WORCESTER, Mass. — A total of 2,054 undergraduate students achieved the criteria required for Worcester Polytechnic Institute's fall 2021 Dean's List. The criteria for the WPI Dean's List differs…

ORONO — University of Maine online undergraduate business and MBA programs have been ranked among the best nationwide by U.S. News & World Report.

This is the first year the Bachelor…

BELFAST — This winter, the Belfast Garden Club Evening Lecture Series co-sponsored by the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free Library, will focus on the effects of the…

what is love and what is not love

Maine High schools from York to Caribou are bringing the bold, survivor-powered outreach of Finding Our Voices to their students starting in February’s Teen Dating Violence Awareness and…

Beginning Thursday, Feb. 10, most pediatric and obstetrics patients will be allowed two visitors

PORTLAND — Maine Medical Center announced the following changes to its visitor policy, …

Belmont Hill, Mass. students do practice runs ahead of U.S. National Toboggan Championships

CAMDEN—Last Sunday, 12 teenage boys from Belmont, Mass., hopped off the bus with Athletic Director George Tahan and arrived at the Camden Snow Bowl with six toboggans, rarin’ to go.

But…

AUGUSTA — To help Maine people with electricity bills, the Governor’s Energy Office and the Office of the Public Advocate submitted Wednesday a proposal to the Maine Public Utilities Commission to…

CAMDEN — The 12 drivers who climb aboard their Camden and Rockport school buses early every morning to ferry students to and from school, as well as to games and extra curricular events ( evenas…

ANGOLA, IN — Isabelle Wiley of Warren, a Trine University student, was named to the President's List for the Fall 2021 term. Wiley is majoring in Accounting.

To earn President's List…

BURLINGTON, VT — Colt Magri of Lincolnville has been named to the Champlain College Dean's List for the Fall 2021 semester.

Students on the Dean's List have achieved a grade point average…

Art and our Natural Environment

LIBERTY — Liberty Graphics, environmentally conscious T-shirt printers, is currently accepting art submissions to it's 25th annual $1,000 art scholarship contest.

All high school seniors…

The team at Lincoln Medical Partners stands ready to deliver COVID-19 vaccine and booster shots to those who need them. The vaccines are being delivered, by appointment or walk-in, from 8 a.m. to…

MMC will allow visitors in adult inpatient units, effective Feb. 7

PORTLAND — Maine Medical Center announced today it would ease some of the visitor restrictions put into place in December in response to the Omicron variant surge. This…

Registration is now open for students entering RSU 71’s Kindergarten and Pre-K programs.
 
Kindergarten:

RSU 71 Elementary Schools are preparing for kindergarten…

15 paid internships are available for high school grads, college students

WALPOLE — University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center is recruiting student researchers to contribute to a diversity of marine and environmental research projects this summer.

The DMC…

This week we decided to capture a regular Sunday of outdoor scenes in the Camden area, Feb. 6, 2022. 

Not pictured were the sledders trickstering their plastic sleds at Camden Harbor Park…

ROCKLAND — Several members of the Rockland Police Department invited families to join them on a sledding hill on Mechanic Street, Saturday morning, Feb. 5, 2022 for some wintertime fun.

CAMDEN — The school boards for Five Town CSD and SAD 28 will be holding a special joint school board meeting Thursday, Feb. 10. 

The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Camden-…

SEARSPORT — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 20 school board meeting has been set. 

The meeting will be held Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the SDMHS cafetorium. 

SLEDDING WITH A COP

ROCKLAND — Rockland Police officers will be at Snow Marine Park, this Saturday, February 5, 2022, from 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m., for a community event.
 
“This event is OPEN TO ALL kids,…

application deadline Monday, March 7

ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Heritage Trust, a state-wide land conservation organization, is offering teens ages 14-18 paid internships through the Teen Ag Crew program at Erickson Fields Preserve (164…

High School Graduates of St. George

In 2022, The Marshall Point Lighthouse organization once more will be offering three scholarships to residents of St. George. Criteria for applying include: 

1. Resident of St. George…

Graduating seniors from Maine high schools who are National FFA (Future Farmers of America) Organization members and interested in pursuing a career in farming, agriculture, or natural resources…

$500 to winning student’s school

PORTLAND — ecomaine has announced the 2022 launch of its school-based Upcycle Challenge, which…

SEARSMONT — The Searsmont Town Library Board of Trustees announces this year’s availability of the H. Joyce Withee Scholarship, a $500 scholarship for college students from Searsmont who are…

On Wednesday, February 23, the Midcoast Conservancy will host a “Starry Night Cinema” outdoor movie experience at the Barn at Hidden Valley Nature Center. The event will…

ROCKPORT — The agenda for the next Five Town CSD school board meeting has been set.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Bisbee Theater at Camden-Rockport Middle…

‘Hancock and Washington counties deserve access to excellent noninvasive cardiology services’

ELLSWORTH — Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital welcomes Zachary Trzaska, MD, to its cardiology practice in Ellsworth.

A graduate of the St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine, Dr.…

UNION — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 40 school board meeting has been set.

The meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. via livestream and in the district’s central…

ST GEORGE — The St. George Fire Department meeting room will be open to the public Saturday, January 29, 2022 for use as an Emergency Warming Shelter.  

If you are are in need of shelter…

ROCKLAND — The agenda for the Regional School Unit 13 school board meeting Thursday, Feb. 3 is set. 

The meeting will be held virtually at 6:30 p.m.

Meetings can be viewed on …

AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Friday the launch of a new pilot project with The Rockefeller Foundation to mail 125,000 free COVID-19 tests directly to the homes of Maine people most in…

ROCKPORT and BELFAST —  In light of the winter storm that is forecast to arrive in the Midcoast this weekend, Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital have made the following…

Here in the Boothbay Region when we hear “Mumbai to Maine,” we immediately think of Mumbai native Cherie Scott who has been our friend and neighbor these past 14 years. We recall the exciting…

AUGUSTA — Coastal Maine could see several inches of snowfall this weekend, particularly the Down East region. The National Weather Service in Gray and Caribou report snow and blowing snow in Maine…

FRANKLIN, Mass. — Kalen Darney of Thomaston has been named to the fall 2021 Dean’s List at Dean College, located in Franklin, Massachusetts.

Students are eligible to be named to the Dean’s…

AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday a $50 million investment from her Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan to build more housing and help more Maine people families find a safe,…

No Greater Love

BELFAST — Throughout February, Belfast Free Library will be collecting non-perishable food items for its third annual food drive. All donations will go to the No Greater Love Food Pantry, in…

CANTON, N.Y. — St. Lawrence University of Canton, New York congratulates more than 640 students named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2021 semester.

The students from the Midcoast named to…

FRANKLIN, Mass. — Elinor Silverio of Lincolnville has earned a place on the President's List for the Fall 2021 semester. Students named to the President's List have demonstrated a serious…

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — More than 1,920 students have been named to the Fall 2021 Dean's List at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, including Isabel Mackenzie Baughman of Northport.

To…

POTSDAM, N.Y. — Sylvia Michelle Randlett of Islesboro, a freshman majoring in business intelligence and data analytics, was named to the Dean's List for the fall 2021 semester at Clarkson…

Allentown, Pa. — Congratulations to Elaine Landry of Thomaston for being named to the Muhlenberg College Dean's List for the Fall 2021 semester.

Muhlenberg College students and Muhlenberg…

Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Bob Rackmales’ initial commission as a US Foreign Service Officer was signed in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy; his final citation for “superior accomplishment in the conduct of the foreign…

ROCKPORT — The Rockport Garden Club recently elected Martha Bouchard as it’s 36th president.

The 2022 Executive Board is as follows: Mary Miller: Vice President; Recording Secretary: Helen…

Born January 22 2022, Seranady-Blu Marie Doherty came into this world at 1:47 a.m., weighing 7 lb and 7 oz.
 
Her parents are Skyla Sanford and Mark Landers Jr., and she has three…