ROCKPORT — The Maine Lobstermen's Association (MLA) distributed more than 100 nylon mesh bags designed to keep trash from entering the Gulf…
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2016 elver season starts on March 22
AUGUSTA — A recently passed bill will improve Maine elver harvesters' chances of landing all of the state's 9,688 pounds of quota. The…
Customers, local businesses, banking centers join forces to support state's homeless
CAMDEN – The Camden National Bank employees have been busy delivering a little extra "hope" to area homeless shelters and charitable…
ROCKLAND – Kate McAleer, the owner and founder of Bixby & Co., is a finalist in the Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Competition for women…
NEW YORK CITY — The James Beard Foundation Tuesday afternoon released its 2016 James Beard Award nominees, and one of three Midcoast chefs named earlier as semifinalists remains in the running.…
NEWS FROM AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA — State Labor Commissioner Jeanne Paquette released January workforce estimates for Maine.
Seasonally Adjusted…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
ROCKPORT - Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District continues the beginning farmer workshop series with two programs on March 30…
A preserve of Maine Coast Heritage Trust
ROCKPORT — This spring, Maine Coast Heritage Trust invites youth ages 10 to 18 to get up close and personal with the Belted Galloway calves…
AUGUSTA — A new approach to scallop monitoring in Maine state waters has led to changes in scallop abundance estimates that will result in…
ROCKPORT – Maine Coast Heritage Trust seeks independent, creative, hardworking teens ages 14-18 to work part-time this spring and fall and…
NEWS FROM AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Labor has issued the 2015 Annual Report on Substance Abuse Testing by Maine Employers. The highest…
Joe Norton has been building walls for around 12 years. They're not the kind of walls that keep people out. In fact they do just the opposite. Their artful beauty draws people in.
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Lobster responsible for 81 percent, then clams
AUGUSTA – Maine's commercially harvested marine resources topped $600 million in overall value in 2015, according to preliminary data from…
2016 marks c41st year
ROCKPORT — With the 41st Fisherman's Forum well underway at the Samoset Resort; the parking lot filled with cars and trucks with license plates from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware and…
ROCKPORT — Straight from his mouth, Shepherd's Pie is taking a winter break for the first time since owner/chef Brian Hill opened the restaurant in Rockport Village nearly six years ago.
"I…
‘Climate is what you expect, Weather is what you get’
ROCKPORT — Julie Keene is harbor master for the town of Lubec. “I’m an elver fisherman,” she said. ”Last year, we got nothing. I didn’t catch my quota. We’re going to have a good year for eels,…
MaineStream Finance OFFERS FRee CLASSES
ROCKLAND – The MaineStream Finance Hatchery classes can help you begin March 1. The free Hatchery classes from MaineStream Finance take the…
Utility systematically replacing aging water infrastructure
SACO – Maine Water has completed its 2015 capital spending, and has announced its capital plan for 2016. In 2015, the company…
Former Coast Guard naval engineer
ROCKLAND — City Manager James Chaousis announced Thursday afternoon, March 3, that Rockland’s new harbor master is Matthew Ripley. A former Coast Guard naval engineer, Ripley grew up in St. George…
From Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a total…
From Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Chellie Pingree announced Wednesday that students Wil Losereewanich and John Zarate at Baxter Academy for…
March 3-5, Samoset Resort, Rockport
ROCKPORT — On Thursday, March 3, the Maine Fishermen's Forum will host a fishermen-led salty discussion around climate change in fisheries…
CMP installs new cable to Island
AUGUSTA — Homes and businesses on Islesboro will have more reliable electric service, now that Central Maine Power, a subsidiary of…
A Camden fixture for 37 years, Cappy’s Chowder House to convert into Sea Dog brewery by June 15
CAMDEN — It was one of Maine’s original brew pubs in the 1990s, and now it’s come full circle. Sea Dog Brewing Company is coming back to Camden.
Matt Orne, the owner of Cappy’s Chowder House…
Measure gets unanimous vote from Marine Resources Committee
AUGUSTA — The Legislature's Marine Resources Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to advance legislation seeking to improve the efficiency…
ROCKLAND — This presentation is a two-part series offered Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m. and Sunday, March 20, at 1 p.m. This is an…
Says she’s happy and sad at the same time
CAMDEN — Even though Camden Post Office employee Donna Perry is a familiar face at Camden National Bank’s downtown branch, it took a ruse at the bank to get her to appear at her own surprise…
Masons on a Mission ready for Year 17 of building cook stoves in Guatemala
The World Health Organization calls them the forgotten three billion, those women around the world who spend much of their day bent over open cook fires. They burn wood, animal dung and crop waste…
SEARSPORT — Midcoast Economic Development District has selected Sundog Solar LLC to implement a regional solar bulk-purchasing program,…
Watch the hearing live via streaming online...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 17) — Day two of the U.S. Coast Guard’s public Marine Board of Investigation hearing into the loss of the steam ship El Faro, and its 33 crew members, is underway…
A bill to improve the state’s ferry service for the hundreds of…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Legislature honored Midcoast student members of Aldermere Achievers 4-H Club of Aldermere Farm in Rockport for winning…
Although at first glance it’s hard to imagine, a Maine lobster is a vulnerable thing. …
A winter storm warning is in effect through midnight Saturday, Feb. 13, and the National Weather Service has forecast as much as 10 inches of snow for the Midcoast. The snow has been falling since…
422 to 408 Main Street
ROCKLAND — Loyal Biscuit Company, which has stores in Camden, Rockland, Belfast and Waterville, announced it had acquired the building at 408 Main Street in Rockland and intends to move its store…
WASHINGTON. D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday that it would launch a second expedition to search for evidence in its investigation of the loss of the cargo ship…
In Business
CAMDEN — The benefits of hydro therapy have been known for a long time. Kate Griffin, of Hope, decided that dogs could benefit from the same therapy and opened Water Bark Wellness at 59 Union…
Planning bakery - ice cream - sub shop for April
ROCKLAND — Known for the “Best Breakfast in New England” (deemed by Yankee magazine), Home Kitchen Café owners James Hatch and Susan Schiro are expanding their restaurant’s popular brand…
Maine shrimp lovers are hoping for the best this winter. With the shrimp population in decline over the past few years, and the Gulf of Maine shrimp fishery being closed…
Knox County Emergency Management Agency...
ROCKLAND — According to Knox County Emergency Management Director Ray Sisk, today’s weather, which includes a winter weather advisory and gale warning for Penobscot Bay, earlier in the day forced…
Tim Simmons of Boothbay just returned from a week in Sweden. As interesting and exciting as he said it was, it wasn't a vacation. He was invited to go by his friend, crustacean scientist Matz…
Food, drink, a bonfire and fireworks
NORTHPORT — Friday’s snow storm did little to dampen the Fire and Ice event atop Point Lookout. Despite the weather, which included blowing snow and strong wind gusts, a crowd gathered at the…
Project “Unlocking the Potential” to revamp the highway
ROCKLAND — Work began in 2011 to envision what Camden Street (Route 1) from Rockland to Glen Cove in Rockport might look like with…
Camden Rotary Club offers supportive grants for 501c3 …
Author Robert Klose’s first novel, ‘Long Live Grover Cleveland’ satirizes academia
Orono author Robert Klose happens to be a professor at two Maine universities and knows a little about the inner workings of academia. An author of three non-fiction books and a children’s book,…
