The Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Year in Review Awards Gala and Annual Meeting took place at the Samoset Resort November 18. More than 350…
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Gala dinner and awards at Samoset Resort
The Maine Department of Labor, in conjunction with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, released October workforce estimates for Maine. The preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 4…
RSU 71...
BELFAST — Every year students and staff at Belfast Area High School’s alternative high school, Belfast Community Outreach in Education, prepare a traditional Thanksgiving meal, which is then…
Volunteer Day...
BELFAST - On a warm, sunny November day, athenahealth arrived at Broadreach Family & Community Services in Belfast with nearly 70 volunteers from its Small Group Account Management Team for a…
BELFAST — Last April, local entrepreneur Kathi Langelier, owner of Herbal Revolution Farm and Apothecary, was dropping off an order of her plant-based products at a Midcoast store when she had a…
As Congress prepares to start the Farm Bill reauthorization process, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is holding a workshop for…
Nov. 19 and 20
The sixth annual Maine Harvest Festival will be held November 19 and 20 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. The event will be held Saturday (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and Sunday (10 a.m. to 4 p.m…
Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner David B. Bernhardt has been chosen by the Board of Directors of the American Association of…
CAMDEN — Many people were treated to an unusual sight as they drove around Megunticook Lake Nov. 15, as Casey Leonard of Camden was at the helm of the M/V Lady Crane.
But the person…
ROCKLAND - The weekend after Thanksgiving in Rockland is filled with a wide variety of holiday events, including the arrival of Santa Claus aboard a U.S. Coast Guard boat on Friday, Nov. 25, the…
Camden National Bank joined leaders and representatives from Maine's nonprofit community for the 2016 Leaders and Luminaries luncheon Nov. 10. Held during the Maine Association of Nonprofits…
At work
SOUTH THOMASTON — John Kazneki owner of the Gypsy Traveler, lives in South Thomaston. A photographer by trade he is making a mark another way, by designing and building the Gypsy Traveler, a small…
Assembling a pilot whale skeleton was fun
WASINGTON - Matt Weeks is a traveling science educator for the Chewonki Foundation. On Saturday evening, November 12, he visited the Gibbs Library in Washington to help participants assemble a…
Public Hearing tonight in Thomaston
A proposal to site an oyster and scallop aquaculture farm in a cove on Pleasant Island in Mussel Ridge Channel will be heard this evening at a Dept. of Marine Resources public hearing in Thomaston…
Brian Tarbox, 52, of Spruce Head has been charged by Marine Patrol Officer Brandon Bezio with fishing 156 lobster traps more than he was authorized to fish, according to the news release from the…
Jack Hauprich and Chris Chacon mapped out their business plan in the gym at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. The two graduates of Camden Hills Regional High School, had never…
board of selectman’s agenda...
LINCOLNVILLE - When the Lincolnville Board of Selectmen convene next on Monday, Nov. 14 beginning at 5:30 p.m., their first order of business is an executive session with Town Administrator Dave…
Green with Envy Salon has purchased Making Waves Salon in Belfast. For 26 years, Cathy Hall has owned and operated Making Waves.
“I would like to thank all of my family,friends,guests…
The Natural Resources Conservation Service and Soil and Water Conservation Districts of Knox-Lincoln, Waldo, and Kennebec counties will be hosting meetings of the Local Work Groups. The meetings…
Tobey Williamson spent four years of study and apprenticeship on Hawaii’s Big Island, and has now opened up his own clinic, Good…
The Maine Farmland Trust appointed Erica Buswell as Vice President of Programs. Buswell, who lives in Searsport, has worked at MFT for more than six years, most recently as the Farmland…
Moratorium on Northern Shrimp Commercial Fishing continues for 2017
In response to the depleted condition of the northern shrimp resource, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Northern Shrimp Section extended the moratorium on commercial fishing for…
Injured boatyard gull at Lyman-Morse takes flight after a month of rehabilitation
CAMDEN — At the beginning of October, Betty McBrien, a professional cleaner at Lyman-Morse, noticed a herring gull in Camden hanging around the boat yard, looking for food. “I first noticed him…
TENANTS HARBOR — Jackson Memorial Library Board President Betsy Welch announced that Deb Armer has joined as the new library director. Armer relocated to Camden last year from Denver, and before…
Remember when you could go down to the seashore at low tide and pick mussels off the rocks for a free meal?
A few years ago they…
ROCKPORT — Work continues in earnest this week at the Mid-Coast Solid Waste Corporation transfer facility on Union Street in Rockport, work that involves installing a subsurface dam between the…
Halloween is all about kids and candy and well, adult kids, too. Give someone a reason to dress up and they tend to go a little crazy. Halloween in Camden and Rockport is no exception as…
Commissioners threatens closing lobster harvesting altogether in affected area
An escalation of trap cutting incidents in recent weeks along the line that separates Maine's lobster zones B and C (Blue Hill Bay and East Penobscot Bay) has prompted a $15,000 reward from…
Lobster traps are useful for a variety of purposes. They are a working tool for hundreds of Maine lobster fishermen; a lawn decoration for folks from away, or a base for a coffee table on the…
For product development, marketing
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has included nine Maine businesses, mostly in the Midcoast, in its latest grant distribution of $45 million to help farmers, ranchers, small businesses and…
ROCKLAND — Hoboken Gardens, which for many years occupied its corner at 310 Commercial Street in Rockport, officially cut the ribbon at a new location at 15 Tillson Ave, in Rockland Wednesday,…
CAMDEN — The Smokestack Grill is done. On a 70-degree afternoon, Oct. 17, staff and friends of the Smokestack Grill in Camden were clearing out the contents of the bar, carting equipment out of…
Oct. 16 Good Tern Co-op event highlighted Pride of Bristol Bay and aquaculture
ROCKLAND — Lobster and blueberries might get most of the media attention when it comes to Maine’s most iconic foods, but salmon and seaweed are the hottest products these day. On Oct. 16, Good…
Twitter, Gmail among those still affected...
NEW YORK, N.Y. — If you’ve been having trouble sending and receiving email, listening to music on Spotify, securing a reservation on Airbnb or venting your frustration and searching for answers on…
At the end of 2012, with the retirement…
Camden National Bank celebrated and honored the extraordinary efforts of its employees and officers at the company’s…
Red Cloak Haunted History Tours celebrates 10 years
DAMARISCOTTA — If you happen to see a mysterious figure in a red cloak wandering through a cemetery in the weeks leading up to Halloween, do not be alarmed. Her name is Sally.
Ten years ago…
Doesn’t appear suspicious, fire chief says
OWLS HEAD — An investigator with the Maine Fire Marshal’s office has determined the cause of fire that destroyed a lobster boat in Owls Head Harbor early Sunday morning, Oct. 16.
Owls Head…
Sale heralds the end of the season
CAMDEN — For 76 years, the Smiling Cow in Camden has held a half-price sale as a way of saying thank you to the community. The Cow opened its doors at 6 a.m. on Saturday, October 15. By 5:30 a.m…
On November 1st and 3 the Sodexo, in partnership with the University of Maine System, will hold the inaugural Scaling Up Events as part of the Maine Course initiative. This one-day forum is a…
AUGUSTA - USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service has reported that Maine horticulture sales increased 43.6 percent from $49.1 million in 2009 to $70.5 million in 2014. The number of Maine…
Terry Marsh is an expert when it comes to conserving valuable works of art. A professional associate of the American Institute of Conservation since 1989, she is a…
Sheriff will assign a deputy to act as warden
ROCKLAND — In chambers October 11, at the Knox County Courthouse, the Knox County Commissioners voted to allow its chairman to sign a contract between Knox County and the towns of Cushing,…
In Business
CenterPilates, owned by classically-trained Lorie Hoyt Nguyen, is a fully equipped Pilates studio now open at the…
unofficial grand opening
CAMDEN — SeaDog Brewing Co. in Camden celebrated their Grand Opening with a Community Bar-B-Q that included a buffet, live music, games and prizes. The buffet featured soup to dessert with…
Bangor Savings Bank is warning the public about a text-based phishing scam that has worked its way through Maine. The alert specifically asks the text recipient to contact Bangor…
The opening session of the Midcoast Leadership Academy’s seventh program year was held September 22 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Referred to as the program’s…
CAMDEN — On Tuesday, Oct. 11, during the business day, Washington Street in downtown Camden - from Elm to Mechanic streets - will be closed to all thru traffic and deliveries. In addition, Bayview…
Public invited to help pick grapes
UNION — Elmer and Holly Savage owners of Savage Oaks Winery, in Union, hosted their Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 1, to give the general public a chance to experience the harvesting of…
Ad Hoc Energy Committee holding Q&A open house Oct. 8
LINCOLNVILLE — Lincolnville voters on Oct. 11 will be asked to decide if they want the town to enter into an agreement with ReVision Energy to install a solar energy power facility, via a license…
