Camden Hills Regional High School Q3 Honor Roll
Grade 9 High Honors: Kyra Anderson, Kara Andrews, Owen Berez, Josephine Brawn, Rasida Brkic, Asa Burgess, Griffin Carnell,…
Life
Find Your Trail
With $15,000 in support from generous sponsors, Coastal Mountains Trails Challenge is back for a second year. All residents and guests of the Midcoast are encouraged to get outside for a hike, run…
in-class offerings, outdoor activities, high school diploma, tutoring
Five Town Adult Ed has submitted the following:
For the second summer, Five Town Adult Ed is offering a small selection of summer classes.
While a few were featured in the…
BURNHAM — The Town of Burnham held its municipal elections Friday, June 26 and provided the following results from its municipal elections on its town website.
SELECTMAN
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CAMDEN — July at the Camden Public Library heads outside for yoga in the Amphitheatre, a gong bath, and walking tours. The Library heads back to internet devices for virtual lectures, read-alouds…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Friday her Administration has approved almost $9 million in grant awards to nearly 100 municipalities across the state under the Keep Maine Healthy Plan to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has been awarded a total of $974,168 to combat tobacco use among Maine youth throughout the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, better known as the U.S. CDC, has quietly added three new potential COVID-19 symptoms, which brings the total…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency has been awarded a total of $931,880 to combat the opioid abuse crisis throughout the state, according to a news release.
This funding…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is distributing home testing kits Saturday, June 27 as part of National HIV Testing Day, an annual occasion to encourage…
helping animals such as Ash, ‘a fighter on the mend’
CAMDEN — PAWS Animal Adoption Center received a challenge from one of its donors this past week. The challenge came with one stipulation; that the donor will match up to $5,000 of what PAWS can…
‘In Maine, 13.6 percent of households were food insecure in 2019. COVID-19 has made the situation worse.’
COVID-19 has affected the health of our communities in many ways – including increased food insecurity, according to Coastal Healthcare Alliance, in a news release.
Coastal Healthcare…
improving strength, balance, and mental health
Spectrum Generations, in partnership with Healthy Living for ME, will be offering a free workshop for adults who are interested in learning how to prevent falls and relieve arthritic pain.
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free activities and lunches to take home to children in the community
Thomaston Public Library has submitted the following:
Thomaston Public Library is pleased to announce that our seventh annual 40 Days of Summer program will launch July 1! While…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has been awarded a total of $3,023,728 to help provide free immunizations to eligible low-income children throughout Maine,…
walking, biking, reading, hiking, painting and other activities
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine is reinventing its largest annual fundraising event “Bowl for Kids’ Sake” to do “Whatever It Takes” to support the 435 kids the agency currently serves in…
The Scholarship Committee of West Bay Rotary announces the following scholarship award selections:
For the CHRHS class of 2020, the winners are Grace Iltis and Emma Jordan. Iltis will be…
With the three pillars of safety, equity, and accessibility for all students and staff guiding a framework for reopening RSU 71, The Task Force to Safely Reopen RSU 71 has grounded its work…
Remedies and relief for the browntail moth caterpillar rash
Spring/Summer 2020 is worse for the brown tail moth infestation than even the year before say pharmacists, entolomogists, and particularly the victims in the Midcoast, who are suffering from the…
Mid-Coast School of Technology submitted the following:
Back in March, over 40 students at the Mid-Coast School of Technology were slated to compete at the State SkillsUSA…
each week presenting a new surprise activity and theme
Merryspring Nature Center and Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District are teaming up this summer to bring fun learning opportunities to children and families with a new free program…
BELFAST — A three-day-a-week homeschool enrichment program called Belfast Adventure Education will be starting in Belfast on October 7.
Learning through place-based skill building,…
free lunch for children; mix and match games and reading
WALDOBORO —The Summer Reading Program at the Waldoboro Public Library is still on for this summer. In-house programs are not allowed because of Covid-19, so the SRP has a new format for this…
The following letter was distributed June 20 by the administrative team at Islesboro Central School.
Dear Community,
Islesboro Central School’s Administration and…
ROCKLAND — Rockland’s experiment to open up Main Street for pedestrian walking and outdoor dining commenced Friday afternoon, June 19. The date happened to coincide with Juneteenth, a day…
‘a great thing for our community’
AUGUSTA — A…
Local seniors recognized with sign display in Rockport
Now that local graduation festivities are over, CedarWorks has taken down its Class of 2020 display. All of the individual signs have been preserved, however, for graduates or their families to…
Camden Rockport School Alliance
The Camden Rockport School Alliance (formerly PTA) presents the 2020 Summer Activities Fair Directory, a complete listing of area camps and organizations who offer summer youth programming.
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countywide initiative to increase access to health care for people regardless of their ability pay
BELFAST — Waldo County Dental Care, which seeks to increase access to dental care for low-income uninsured adults in Waldo County, has received a grant of $16,000 from United Midcoast Charities (…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday the State of Maine will receive more than $8.5 million in federal funds to improve behavioral health services for…
a special shout out to classes of ’45, ’50, ’55, ’60 and ’65
The Camden High School Alumni Association has submitted the following statement:
The Camden High School Alumni Association met recently via ZOOM. The Board of Directors decided,…
still on schedule for September opening date
The new middle school construction project has entered its final phase. The reality that the end of this project is coming soon has become more tangible as we watched the beginning of the…
AUGUSTA — The newly established Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Maine Tribal Populations sent a …
Maine childrens’ museums ‘on very, very unsteady ground’ due to pandemic
ROCKLAND — This past week a new union has been formed of all the children's museums in the Maine. The Coastal Children’s Museum in Rockland is now a member of the newly formed “Children’s Museums…
THOMASTON — Every year, on June 14, Flag Day is commemorated throughout the United States and its territories. This year the Thomaston American Legion Williams-Brazier Post 37 co-hosted a Flag…
helping families in need During Pandemic
You can team up with Horch Roofing to bring food security to the local community while making your own home more secure this summer, according to Horch Roofing, in a news release. Horch, with…
Camden Hills Regional High School has announced that the cumulative academic records for the Class of 2012 will be destroyed beginning August 15, 2020.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Safety net hospitals in Maine have been awarded a total of $52,175,271 to support their efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a news release.
Safety net…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Maine State Department of Health and Human Services has been awarded a total of $1,477,750 to support mental health and substance abuse…
SEARSPORT — Due the forecast of heavy rain and thunderstorms June 11, the processional and drive-in graduation for Searsport District High School was postponed to Monday, June 15 with a…
addressing economic security and access to childcare and camp
The Penobscot Bay YMCA, a local nonprofit that fosters partnerships, provides programs and services, and promotes youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, has received a grant…
‘in appreciation for their extraordinary efforts’
WALDOBORO — Graduates of Medomak Valley High School’s class of 2020 will become some of the first members of The Waldo when it reopens later this year after extensive renovations to the 1936…
CAMDEN — One week after participating in the Black Lives Matter gathering in Camden, Mackenzie Lyman and her daughter, Hayden, were having a conversation about how to help social justice and…
BELFAST — The graduating seniors from Belfast Area High School held an outdoors graduation ceremony Saturday, June 13 at the Belfast Municipal Airport due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part…
‘When I run I can turn off my brain and just focus on putting one foot in front of the other’
CAMDEN — When the COVID-19 pandemic made its way to Maine and forced area schools to shift to virtual learning, nobody knew what that meant for this year’s class of high school seniors.
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THORNDIKE — Mount View High School, like all Maine high schools, will have a non-traditional graduation ceremony this year amid the pandemic.
Mount View High School is holding graduation…
A smile on every face, and spring in every step
CAMDEN — Downtown Camden was full of joy this evening, June 12, as the Camden Hills Regional High School Class of 2020 came marching down Main Street from the top of the hill. To say the…
CAMDEN — An intimate graduation ceremony is being held Saturday, June 13 for the six seniors of Camden’s The Watershed School at the Camden Snow Bowl.
“Our plans for graduation grew out of…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced Friday that 525 essential workers have received financial help for child care and more than 1,600 child care providers…
