ROCKPORT — The SAD 28 and Five Town CSD school boards will hold virtual budget meetings Monday, March 22 to present the 2021-2022 school budgets to the community and give the public an opportunity…
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ROCKLAND — The agenda has been set for a special Regional School Unit 13 school board meeting slated to be held Thursday, March 18.
The meeting will be virtually held at 6 p.m.
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Keep Belfast Beautiful Annual Clean Up
BELFAST — For the fourth year in a row, Belfast businesses and residents will be forming teams from Thursday to Saturday, May 6 - 8, 2021 to clean up the approximately 59 miles of roadside in…
HOPE — The school committee for Hope Elementary School will be holding a special committee meeting Tuesday, March 23.
The meeting will be held virtually at 6 p.m. over Zoom.
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BOSTON, Massachusetts — The following students have been named to Emerson College's Dean's List for the Fall 2020 semester. The requirement to make Dean's List is a grade point average of 3.7 or…
Rockland’s Good Tern Co-op pairs up with Maine Needs to comfort Maine citizens
ROCKLAND—Good Tern, the co-op that rounds up change for worthy causes each month as covered in a…
AUGUSTA — The Maine House and Senate voted March 11 to advance a bill sponsored by Representative Scott Cuddy, D-Winterport, ensuring certain educational technicians are not required to pay into…
recognizing the substantial impact of trauma while maintaining preparedness, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, response, and recovery
This fall, the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) begins offering a new graduate level program in the interdisciplinary field of emergency management. The online program will admit its first…
the first to quantify in exact measurements the magnitude, spectrum, spatial coherence and polarization of thermal radiation from atomic-scale materials
Components the size of a few atoms, known as quantum materials, can enhance how technology functions and manages its heat. However, little is known about how heat is emitted and exchanged in…
recognizing a gifted, civic-minded young person age 25 or younger
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has announced the launch of the new John Lewis Youth Leadership Award.
Through this award, the Secretary of State's Office will annually recognize one…
beginning March 15, 2021, relaxing some restrictions in the wake of winter peak
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital revises visitors’ policy for hospitals, medical offices and clinics in response to evolving COVID-19 threat PBMC and…
CAMDEN — The agenda for the SAD 28 board meeting slated for Wednesday, March 17 has been set.
The meeting will be held virtually over Zoom at 7 p.m.
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UNION — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 40 school board meeting, March 18, has been set.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. with participants joining in at the district’s…
The Camden Area Christian Food Pantry has completed its second OTTO Challenge.
A very generous anonymous donor contacted the pantry last summer and challenged the CACFP Board to match a…
resilience, commitment, and leadership
Campus Compact, a Boston-based nonprofit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has announced the 212…
The Board of Directors of the Maine Fishermen’s Forum has announced the winners of the 47th annual Scholarship Drawing! Twenty-three applicants were drawn and given book awards.
The…
AUGUSTA — The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released a continuation of needed flexibilities for the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) and the National School Lunch…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is preparing to place an order for first doses of…
Camden Hills Regional High School announces its second quarter honor roll for the 2020-21 academic year.
9th Grade High Honors
Ryan Andersen, George Bickham…
APPLETON — The school committee for the Appleton Village School has set a special committee meeting for Monday, March 15.
The meeting will be held virtually over Zoom at 6 p.m.
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LEWISTON — The following students have been named to the dean's list at Bates College for the fall semester ending in December 2020. This is a distinction earned by students whose grade point…
snacks, beverages, charging station, showers, clothes closet, change of scenery, word games, and more
BELFAST — After years with minimal options for respite for the housing insecure during the winter months, there is now a warming center in the sanctuary of the UU Church of Belfast, open to anyone…
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To celebrate National Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Day on March 10, the Maine Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (MAND) Public Policy Panel has created a series of short videos with…
providing meal assistance
ROCKLAND — On March 5, Brothers of the 9th Masonic District presented a check in the amount of $2,100 to Bobby Deetjen, director of the Midcoast School of Technology, in support of the “Angel Fund…
ORONO — The University of Maine System is preparing to welcome students back to campuses for a traditional, in-person college experience at the start of the fall semester, according to a news…
‘I can be an active, positive force towards education in this great state’
LIMESTONE — Camden’s Greyson Orne, presently a junior at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone, has been confirmed by the Maine State Senate as a student trustee member of the…
For years, many Midcoast towns have struggled with issues of affordable and attainable housing. Now, thanks to the pandemic and a COVID-19 fueled real estate boom, the situation has become even…
ROCKPORT — After months of closed door meetings, consultations with attorneys and finally, mediation with Duward Parkinson, the towns of…
ROCKLAND — In a response to the Rockland residents who’ve repeatedly accused City Council of not hearing them regarding the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) ordinance, Councilor Ben Dorr stated in…
AUGUSTA — Representative Scott Cuddy, D-Winterport, and Senator Chip Curry, D-Belfast, have been working with representatives from the Maine Department of Education to address confusion around the…
For Ann Bresnahan, of Hope, supporting her community is a family tradition.
Her father and mother, Arthur K. Watson and Ann H. Symington, generously contributed to the original…
Kate Novack, an Emmy-nominated writer-director-producer of documentaries, wrote and directed “Hysterical Girl,” a short film nominated for Best Short by the International Documentary Association.…
studying the chemical process
NSF CAREER award supports Schwartz’s research on the chemical process for making rubber component
ORONO — Delving deeper into the chemical processes used to make various goods from…
CANTON, New York — Kassandra Wood, from Lincolnville, has been selected for inclusion on St. Lawrence University's Dean's List for academic achievement during the Fall 2020 semester.
Wood…
$50 poster prize, $75 first-place essay prize
Maine students in grades 4-12 are invited to submit entries for this year’s Law Day contests sponsored by the Maine State Bar Association. Students in grades 4-8 may participate in the art poster…
seeds donated by the Troy Howard Middle School garden program
SEARSPORT — To celebrate the start of spring, Friends of Sears Island will be offering free grab-and-go activity kits for children themed around seeds, soil, and garden planning.
This…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education jointly announced Friday the Mills Administration’s dedicated COVID-19 vaccination clinics for school staff…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant will offer four free ‘Signs of the Seasons’ training options for volunteer citizen scientists around the state.
The training…
first aid, birding, airbnb, pruning, art, and more
The ending of winter and beginning of spring is always a great time to think of starting anew, especially after this past year, said Five Towns Adult Ed, in a news release What better way than…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is preparing to place another order for first doses…
ROCKPORT — Keeping mum, but confirming that they did meet March 1 as scheduled, the municipal and school attorneys, as well as school superintendent and town managers, convened with a mediator to…
HOPE — The school committee for Hope Elementary School will hold a special committee meeting Tuesday, March 16, and the meeting’s agenda has been released.
The meeting will be held…
SEARSPORT — The school board for Regional School Unit 20 will hold its next meeting Tuesday, March 9, and the meeting’s agenda has been released.
The meeting will be held in the SDMHS…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday her administration will align Maine’s vaccination plan with President Biden’s recent directive to make eligible pre-K-12 school staff and child…
collaboration, compromise, and cooperation for the benefit of the group
THOMASTON — Several Thomaston Grammar School students were recognized for the attribute of Teamwork at an assembly on Tuesday, March 2. These students included: Gemma Rubino, Oliver Reavely,…
KINGSTON, Rhode Island — The University of Rhode Island has announced the Fall 2020 Dean's List. The students represent nearly all of Rhode Island's cities and towns, all six New England states,…
Finding Our Voices, the Camden-based, grassroots non-profit organization marshaling survivor voices and faces to break the silence of domestic abuse, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the…
HOPE — The school committee for Hope Elementary School will hold its next meeting Monday, March 8, and the meeting’s agenda has been released.
The meeting will be held virtually over Zoom…
LINCOLNVILLE — The school committee for Lincolnville Central School will be holding a special committee meeting Tuesday, March 9, and the agenda has been released.
The meeting will be…
‘will make the biggest difference in rural, low-density, low-population counties’
WALDO COUNTY — As rural communities across the state struggle with connecting to reliable internet, a new internet service provider — some call it space internet — is on track to narrow the gap of…
