Nicole Hotchkin has joined Maine State Credit Union and will lead the residential lending efforts across Maine.
“We are happy to have someone with Nicole's experience and knowledge of the…
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Saturday morning, Wiscasset’s Jan Flowers said she and husband Larry had just seen “things we never get to see from the road ... Beautiful, lot of pines, we saw the backs of houses that we’ve…
UPDATE: On Aug. 25, Maine Dept. of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher issued the following statement: “We received confirmation yesterday from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner that…
More than $100,000 has been distributed from Finding Our Voices to bring safety, freedom, and comfort to Maine women and children survivors of domestic abuse through the group’s Get Out Stay Out…
‘We have constant requests for spaces in which to conduct business calls, online meetings, and work areas’
CAMDEN — The Camden Public Library has been awarded funding to support “Remote Work through Libraries” through a grant from the Maine State Library. The grant will be used to create remote-working…
Why don’t they learn about our town before they move here, try to change us?
OWLS HEAD — Owls Head Select Board member Linda Post, who has lived in this area all of her life, and in Owls Head for 50 years, can understand why people move here – the harbor, the airport, the…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
It’s another of those age-related disconnects that crop up more and more often: People in their 20s and 30s don’t know the Alfa brand. And a vanishingly small handful of…
PORTLAND – A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 23 in U.S. District Court regarding trial scheduling and a motion to continue for the fishermen and seafood dealers who were…
Appoints Simon Griffiths as Successor to CEO
CAMDEN — The Board of Directors of Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ: CAC) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Camden National Bank, announced Aug. 21 the appointment of…
The Rankin’s Difference will remain the same
Rankin’s Hardware and Supply, on Union Street in Camden, counts amongst the friendliest stores in the Midcoast. Customers are greeted as…
WALDO COUNTY — Nearly $90,000 in Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in…
KNOX COUNTY — More than $62,000 in Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Knox County in 2023. The nine…
On Aug. 5, more than 100 attendees gathered on Hurricane Island to join in a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Maine’s newest field research…
the potential to grow more than three tons of greens, lettuce, herbs, flowers, and root vegetables each year
ROCKLAND — AIO Food and Energy Assistance announces the successful beginning of a fundraising campaign for the implementation of year-round hydroponic growing.
This campaign is the…
“What is one idea you hope people who work with youth bring forward?”
ROCKLAND — This summer, Trekkers Training Institute (TTI) offered a 4-part training series on Youth Engagement. The sessions were open to the public and offered on a sliding scale. With the…
Midcoast entrepreneurs
CAMDEN - Captain Gus Kodros is originally from Alton, Illinois When asked what brought him to Camden, he says with a wry smile, “a boat.” Kodros recently purchased the Schooner Lazy Jack II…
More Than $22,000 to Northern New England Nonprofit Organizations
ROCKLAND — Bar Harbor Bank & Trust employees recently presented more than $22,000 in donations collected through the Bank’s employee-driven charitable giving program, Casual for a Cause, to…
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital welcome Tyson Thornton, PharmD, BCPS, MBA-H, FACHE, as their new vice president of operations. Thornton joined the…
OWLS HEAD — On Thursday, Aug. 10, volunteers and friends of the Owls Head Transportation Museum were treated to the first look at a brand new, 20,000 sq ft workshop space on the museum's campus.…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
How do I love thee, new-for-2024-and-available-only-in-North-America Acura Integra Type S? Let me count the ways . . .
Engineering: Up…
BLUE HILL — Wednesday, August 23, 2023, Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital will open its doors to a brand-new facility. On move day, patients will be safely transported…
the “virtual” class
ROCKLAND — Partnering with the Sail, Power & Steam Museum, the Rockland Yacht Club Scholarship Regatta will be held Saturday, Aug. 19 with boats from around the Midcoast. New this year is the…
targeted resources, services, and physical space to support remote and hybrid workers, as well as business owners and entrepreneurs
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library has been awarded funding from The Maine State Library and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development as part of the more than $1.7 million in…
ROCKPORT — The Pen Bay Stroke Program has been recognized nationally with the 2023 Get With the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award and the Target Stroke Elite Honor Roll Performance…
BELFAST — The City of Belfast has been awarded an $10,000 2023 Project Canopy Assistance Planting & Maintenance Grant through the U.S.D.A Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program…
Finding Our Voices has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Maine Community Foundation. The money is “to help bridge the gaps in support for Maine’s women domestic violence survivors," according…
planning a special Welcome Weekend
ROCKLAND — Adas Yoshuron Synagogue welcomes Rabbi Lorin Troderman as its new spiritual leader. Rabbi Troderman joins Adas Yoshuron as the fourth rabbi in the synagogue’s recent history. The 111-…
Last Tuesday morning, July 25, an overly ambitious puppy named Summer – an eclectic mix of Beagle, Golden Retriever, Great Dane, and Hound — was playing with other dogs at Laite Beach.
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Walk-in Clinic
Pen Bay Medical Center has sold the Knox Center and the Bok Building in Rockland to Knox Center LLC, a Rockland-based company.
Knox Center…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
For 2024, General Motors wiped the slate clean of the previous Trax, which largely labored in obscurity from 2013 to 2022, and started over again. Much more successfully,…
The Penobscot Bay YMCA said Aug. 7 that it will no longer hold its annual Boat Auction at the Y in Rockport.
For 24 years, this major fundraising event helped keep the…
KNOX COUNTY — Six community organizations serving residents in Knox County are seeking volunteers for projects to increase access to nutritious food for active and healthy…
Marshall Point Lighthouse is awaiting a replacement light after lightning strike
PORT CLYDE—The lighthouse made famous by Forrest Gump has hit a setback.
On a rainy evening last week, Diane Heath, the publicity coordinator for Marshall Point Lighthouse was inside the…
The John T. Gorman Foundation has awarded 83 grants totaling $1.5 million to provide food, shelter, health care, and other essential services to Mainers in need through its 2023 Direct Service Grant…
view portions of knox county by rail this weekend
ROCKLAND – Midcoast Railservice is beginning rail excursions between Rockland and Brunswick with short debut trips during this week’s Maine Lobster Festival.
The company, operating under…
Wiscasset selectmen
Passenger rail is returning to Wiscasset with weekend trips planned soon, a Damariscotta man told Wiscasset selectmen Aug. 1. The “Coastliner” Brunswick-Rockland rail line is an “informed…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
The ever-expanding range of electrified vehicles from Volvo presently includes three battery-only SUVs, two hybrid gas-electric SUVs, two hybrid sedans and one hybrid…
ROCKLAND — The disruption of electrical power in Rockland, Thomaston, South Thomaston and a portion of Rockport is due to Central Maine Power work at the Park Street substation in Rockport.
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CAMDEN—A favorite Rockland store has reemerged in Camden on the Lyman-Morse waterfront boardwalk this summer. Motifs, a boutique specializing in coastal-inspired wares, men’s and women’s fashion,…
AUGUSTA — Survivors with Finding Our Voices gathered with Governor Janet T. Mills at the State House on July 25, 2023 for the ceremonial signing of a law bringing safety to domestic abuse…
new nonprofit is closer to opening its network of temporary community shelters for families facing homelessness
BELFAST — Family Promise of MidCoast Maine, a new startup based in Waldo County and serving families experiencing or at risk of homelessness, announced on July 27, the generous support and…
CAMDEN — Members of the Camden Rotary Club are selling tickets for their annual Super Raffle to raise funds for grants to nonprofit community service organizations in Knox County and Lincolnville…
Island Institute /Pendleton Yacht Yard partnership part of a larger effort to electrify Maine’s working waterfront
At a gathering in Rockland July 27, Pendleton Yacht Yard, of Islesboro, demonstrated its new fully electric boat, named Take Charge. The boat will be used to demonstrate electric marine…
Former blueberry processing facility now supports multiple farmer initiatives
UNION—A new Midcoast Farmers Union site at the former Coastal Blueberry Services facility at 61 Common Road is now open to farmers to set up pop-up retail markets and to use the space for storage…
Members of the board and advisory board of The Stewardship Education Alliance (S.E.A.) announced the opening of a S.E.A. Park at the Camden Public Landing next to the Harbor Master’s building. …
PORT CLYDE – Herring Gut Coastal Science Center has announced the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: Susan Lewis Baines, Catherine Bevier and Maureen Cragin.
Herring…
BELFAST — City of Belfast nomination papers are available from July 27 through September 7, 2023 for the following open seats:
1-Mayor…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
It’s almost a law of physics that smaller cars should be fun-ner to drive. Or why bother? As the smallest of the Mazda Motor Corporation’s three more-upscale crossover…
In 2020, a swimmer was killed by a white shark off Harpswell Cove. The encounter was unusual — Maine’s first fatal shark attack — but the media was abuzz. As white shark sightings have increased…
tours of the navy ship as well as local coast guard
ROCKLAND — The USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) will anchor in Rockland Harbor for the 76th Maine Lobster Festival. The ship was last in Rockland for the 63rd Maine Lobster Festival.
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