BROOKS — Thirty combat veterans diagnosed with PTSD will be healing in Brooks during peak foliage season.
Fair Haven Camps in Brooks will be the site of Returning Home, October 10 through…
Life
ROCKLAND — Allowing for individual freedoms, advocating for the health of nonsmokers, protecting the poor, and speaking for the voiceless.
Rockland City Council must weigh the pros and…
HOPE: Times are approximate. Please be at bus stop 10 minutes prior to scheduled time to allow for adjustments.
***CHRHS: Appleton bus stops at Pushaw's on Rt17: 7:35am…
APPLETON: Times are approximate. Please be at bus stop 10 minutes prior to scheduled time to allow for adjustment
CHRHS: Appleton bus route #1 AM
Fishtown Road: 6:…
AVS Bus Route 1 – AM*(T/A = turn around)*
Start at Hatchery Lane/Fishtown Rd – 730am
Left onto Burketville Rd – 733am
Right onto S. Collinstown Rd (T/A) – 735am…
WALPOLE — Megan Driscoll wants to replace plastic made of petroleum with plastic made of algae.
So this summer, the University of Maine…
NORTHPORT — The Camden High School (CHS) Alumni Association held its 114th Annual Banquet at Point Lookout in Northport on Friday, August 9. At the banquet the 2019 CHS Alumni Recognition Awards…
BELFAST — RSU 71 will hold a celebration of the substantial completion of the Belfast Area High School renovation and construction project.
On Monday, Aug. 26 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. there…
Listed below are the 2019-2020 School bus routes for students from Camden/Rockport attending School Administrative District 28 and the FiveTown CSD. …
stricken with acute case of inflammation of the brain
CAMDEN — This summer was supposed to be any ordinary summer for Camden’s Rachel Waldron and her husband, William Waldron III.
The couple were in the midst of planning for the future,…
Waldo Community Action Partners offers Waldo families a free school supply giveway
BELFAST—Every table in the conference room at Waldo Community Action Partners is filled with brand new folders, pens, pencils, notebooks, backpacks and lunch packs—just waiting to be taken home.…
210 students honored across five states
BOSTON — Two local students were recognized by the Boston Red Sox as part of the professional baseball team’s service scholarship program, which awarded students across New England with…
‘Sometimes the best way to find what you're looking for is to make it yourself’
BELFAST — Every entrepreneur sources passion for their business in a completely unique method.
For Nick Grim and Noelle Wingate, they sourced the passion behind their business,…
tuition-free college courses for juniors and seniors
ROCKLAND — Local juniors and seniors are encouraged to enroll tuition-free in college courses for the fall term at UMA Rockland. Known as “High School Aspirations” these students earn both college…
in business
ROCKPORT — Rocky Coast Reiki wellness studio recently opened in Rockport on U.S. Route 1. Owner and energy…
Registration for fall 2019 classes at the Hutchinson Center
BELFAST — Registration is open through the University of Maine Hutchinson Center for more than 300 undergraduate and graduate…
ISLESBORO — Islesboro Central School recently hired Lindsay Dakers as their Middle School and High School counselor.
Dakers is joining Islesboro Central School with a background in career…
New Hope for Women's annual Pop Up Shop is coming August 22-24 to the Yellow Barn located at 20 Winter Street, Rockland.
New Hope for Women invites the public to its annual Pop Up Shop at…
Camden-Rockport Elementary School is welcoming new students, taking registrations for grades K-4. All new students who reside in Camden or Rockport are invited to register for the 2019-20 school…
Aug. 7 in Augusta
The Maine Charter School Commission has received applications from two entities proposing a new public charter school opening in Fall 2020. There are nine public charter schools operating in the…
ROCKLAND — Limited in hours and privacy, no kitchen, and no furniture. To some, the YMCA-Flanagan Center may not seem like the ideal emergency homeless shelter in the Midcoast, yet, the Knox…
20 students from 11 states and eight countries
WALPOLE — In 1995, Emmanuel Boss took a class about Calibration & Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing. Three years later, he was a student teaching assistant.
Boss still keeps…
BELFAST — A group of industrious students and their instructor are working to make the Troy Howard Middle School greenhouse greener by shrinking its carbon footprint.
The school’s garden…
‘LuLu the lunch wagon’ Tuesdays through Thursdays, Aug 6 – Aug 22
WALDOBORO – For three weeks in August, a trailer referred to as “LuLu the lunch wagon” will be used to deliver free lunches to children in Waldoboro neighborhoods.
After several months…
Applications accepted through August 15
CAMDEN — Are you an emerging leader between the ages of 18-35? Are you entering the workforce or currently in an entry-level job, but want to learn the skills to grow professionally?
…
spreading the word about the challenges of youth
ROCKLAND — Thanks to Midcoast Community Chorus’ (MCC) June beneficiary concert, Spheres, OUT Maine’s statewide work supporting and empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and…
Meeting the Maine elements with the right systems and materials
CAMDEN — David Kibbe decided last year to move to Maine from North Carolina, where he had been happily immersed in a medical and IT career, and raising a family for 30 years. But the prospect of…
three opportunities to support the family
SOUTH THOMASTON — Only days after teenager Emily Miller was injured during a hit-and-run incident, the Midcoast community is rallying together to provide financial assistance to the family. …
BELFAST — Eleven students from six Maine high schools and from area homeschool programs started the summer in various Belfast Bay locations as part of an intensive three-week STEM research course…
ORONO — This fall, three Maine public high schools will participate in a yearlong, tuition-free pre-calculus course as part of the University of Maine’s Early College Academ-e high school pilot…
BELFAST — At its July 8 school board meeting, Regional School Unit 71 approved amending the district’s Director of Curriculum position to include the responsibilities and job title of assistant…
How to cut drastically down on unwanted mail in your mailbox
It is so easy to get caught up in the minutia of everyday life that I hadn’t really noticed, but, I was finding myself irritated every time I went to my mailbox. Every single day I was pulling out…
board member Pete Orne raises questions
CAMDEN — The Five Town CSD School Board, which governs Camden Hills Regional High School, voted 7 to 1 at a special meeting July 29 to pursue a contract with ReVision Energy, of Liberty, to…
THOMASTON — The third annual Nathan Robertson Memorial family fun weekend will take place in Thomaston on Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11.
Festivities will begin Saturday, Aug. 10…
building a network of informed, committed, and engaged community leaders
CAMDEN — Midcoast Leadership Academy (MLA) is accepting applications for its tenth program year. Applications are due by August 14. The program begins September 19 and meets monthly until June 7,…
ticket deadline for 114th Banquet is Friday, Aug. 2
ROCKPORT — Camden High School Alumni Association presented 4 scholarships totaling $4000 to Camden Hills Regional High School graduates.
The Association received 110 deserving applications…
The Project Manager, the Stakeholders, the Plan and the Team; Implementation: How to Meet the Challenge; Communication in Project Management, Negotiating skills and Conflict, Meetings and Presentations
BELFAST — A three-day certificate program, Implementing Project Management, will be offered Sept. 20, 27, and Oct. 4, at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center. Participants from a variety of…
strengthen, uplift and integrate people struggling with food insecurity
ROCKLAND — Area Interfaith Outreach and Good Shepherd Food Bank will be teaming up to bring the Building Advocates Leadership Program to the greater Rockland community this fall.
The…
all three area island schools to have new superintendents
ISLESBORO and NORTH HAVEN — New superintendents are set to be in place at all three area island schools when school resumes for the 2019-2020 school year.
After Vinalhaven Community…
‘I have a pulse on the community, families and the students that attend both schools’
BELFAST and SWANVILLE — A new principal will be at the helm of East Belfast Elementary School and Kermit Nickerson Elementary School this upcoming academic year.
Regional School Unit 71…
interest in journalism, excellence in academics, and financial need
ELLSWORTH and PORTLAND — Two Knox County journalism students have renewed as Gannet Scholars.
The Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholarship Fund of the Maine Community Foundation has awarded $…
BELMONT — The Belmont, Maine Backyard Reunion is celebrating its 25th year of family reunions.
This year’s reunion is held on the second Saturday in August, in this case August 10, in the…
AUGUSTA – Oral rabies vaccine baits will be distributed in northeastern Maine beginning on or about August 3 through August 7 as part of ongoing…
Eighteen Community Leaders
BELFAST — Midcoast Leadership Academy (MLA) has announced the completion of the Academy’s 9th program year. A graduation ceremony was held on June 7 in Belfast.
The organization’s mission…
take a class, complete a degree starting with fall semester, Sept. 3-Dec. 13
BELFAST — Registration is open through the University of Maine Hutchinson Center for more than 300 undergraduate and graduate courses offered in fall 2019, both live and via distance education (…
Maine Educational Opportunity Center
BELFAST — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will host a free workshop entitled, Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 & over, July 30, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the University of…
first case in the state since 2017
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has confirmed a case of Powassan virus infection in a Maine resident, the first case of the tick-borne illness in the…
20 percent of the profits went to Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.
BELFAST—Matthew Norwood, owner of Baby Burrito in City Park, decided with his partner, Maggie Goscinski, to sell tacos for a cause on Tuesday, July…
The wandering spotlight will be lighting up Damariscotta as it moves from Lincoln Theater to the streets around it as movie fans begin arriving for the first MidCoast Film Festival. The excitement…
