BELFAST - Over two dozen businesses have applied for grant money to be used to improve facades and interiors, buy new equipment, upgrade machinery or technology and other projects that, in the…
Belfast
$150,000 pool to go toward renovations, equipment and more
Application complicated by government shutdown
BELFAST - The Federal Communications Commission is planning to accept proposals for low power FM radio stations next week for the first time in over a decade. Assuming the government reopens or…
Elephants, royalty, dragons and a storybook end
BELFAST - Chinese-style dragons, knights, princesses, a giant sausage and a pair of elephants rolled into downtown Belfast behind a light rain, Saturday as part of the annual Church Street…
Gubernatorial hopeful says state should be run more like Front Street Shipyard
BELFAST - Two days after formally announcing his candidacy for governor, independent Eliot Cutler swung through the Midcoast, touring Front Street Shipyard in Belfast then heading to a fundraiser…
Sandor Katz draws a crowd on the way to the Common Ground Fair
BELFAST - After the publication of his book Wild Fermentation in 2003, Sandor Katz loaded his car with sauerkraut and set out to spread the word on the…
Wienerfest...
BELFAST — Nearly 100 Dachshunds descended upon Belfast’s Steamboat Landing Park Sept. 8 to celebrate the 10th annual Wienerfest. Some of the four-legged participants traveled from as…
BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Sept. 7-12. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
Sept. 7
Robyn L. Cornell, 22, of…
Lighting on pathway criticized as excessive; defended as valuable
BELFAST — The new waterfront pedestrian and biking path known as the Belfast Harbor Walk has been well received since workers broke ground early this summer. But on Sept. 17,…
Searsmont and Northport support withdrawal bid; budget passes on third try
Voters from the eight towns of Regional School Unit 20 collectively approved the school district’s 2013-14 budget on Tuesday by a vote of 914-749. The validation ended a stalemate between district…
Will third time be the charm?
BELFAST — RSU 20 Superintendent Brian Carpenter opened Tuesday night’s public budget meeting with a plea to the 150 voters in attendance: accept that the 2013-14 budget will result in a property…
Aug. 24-Sept. 5
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Belfast District Court Aug. 24 – Sept. 6.
Frederick E. Barlow, 57, of Brooks, operating under the…
Our Town Belfast auction Sept. 13
BELFAST — Both visitors and residents of Belfast have been treated to the artwork and comfort featured in this year’s public art installation, “Please, Be Seated!” The chairs and benches were…
Large community turnout to honor Garland-Belfast woman killed last week.
BELFAST — Cars lined the sides of Belfast City Park Sept. 6 as nearly 100 people gathered to celebrate the life of Lynn Marie (Day) Arsenault, 55, who was tragically killed in an…
Ballot set for city’s municipal and school board elections
BELFAST - With nominations recently closed, city residents can look forward to the first three-way race for mayor in over a decade — or more dramatically, the first of the millenium.
T…
EcoCor anticipates five jobs in passive home building
BELFAST - The City Council on Tuesday approved a plan to give a lot in the Airport Business Park to a green building entrepreneur in exchange for jobs.
Chris Corson of Northport proposes to…
Woman dies following car-bus crash
BELFAST — Rescue crews extricated a woman from her car Saturday evening, Aug. 31, following an accident on Route 1 in Belfast. Belfast Police Chief Mike McFadden confirmed Monday, Sept. 2, that…
BELFAST — The Belfast Co-op held its 9th annual Customer Appreciation Day Aug. 17. The event, which blocked High Street from the Co-op to the traffic light, drew many from the Harbor Fest being…
BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Aug. 20-28. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
Aug. 20
Ana G. Johnson, 31, of Cranston…
$220,000 high bid nets Peirce School building
BELFAST - The building that was home to Peirce Elementary School for nearly a century, and most recently was headquarters of the Belfast Academy of Music, sold at an auction, Aug. 28, for $220,000…
Van about town
BELFAST - I followed this van once. It was all red, apart from some detailing along the sides and a sign on the front reading, “Coca-Cola Chicks.”
A branded ride on a whistle stop tour of…
Town joins Belfast in supporting second seccession attempt
BELMONT - Voters in a special refendum Thursday favored a second attempt to withdraw from Regional School Unit 20 by a tally of 36-15.
The town joins Belfast, where voters approved a new…
A look back in photos...
BELFAST — The Belfast Harbor Fest kicked off Friday night, Aug. 16, at Steamboat Landing and the evening brought food, drinks and music, including Tough Cats, Whale Oil, When Particles Collide and…
Truck cuts utility pole in half after flipping into it
BELFAST — A Winterport woman, 29-year-old Jennifer Lambeth, and her two children are lucky to have escaped with their lives after a serious accident in Belfast Saturday afternoon. Lambeth was…
Belfast joins with national company to offer free fluorescent bulb recycling
BELFAST - Not long after the tranfer station here dropped its fee for fluorescent bulbs, manager Sandy Carey noticed a trend. The number of people returning bulbs was rising in a predictable word-…
Forums in Belfast and Searsport; separate withdrawal vote in Belfast Aug. 20
BELFAST - “For your information, RSU #20 is currently running on the last budget passed by the voters at the Budget Meeting on July 22, 2013.”
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BELFAST — The fifth annual Belfast Street Party drew hundreds to Main Street Monday night, Aug. 5. The event, which offered free admission and a wide array of activities and events – ranging from…
BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Aug. 1 -12. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
Aug. 3
Amy A. Paine, 35, of Belfast, was…
Video: Poet, new to Belfast, performs spoken word and jazz
BELFAST - From the hills of San Francisco, the verdant landscape of northern Vermont, the concrete Coltrane district of Philadelphia; from these and other far-flung places, Toussaint St. Negritude…
Notes from abroad: BELFAST—BELGIQUE
June 28
According to the small television screen attached to the cabin ceiling, we are somewhere over…
Referendum results send school officials back to the whiteboard
Voters from the eight towns of Regional School Unit 20 rejected the district’s proposed school budget for the second time in a referendum on Tuesday.
Turnout at the polls was low across the…
Referendum, Tuesday, July 30
BELFAST – Voters in the eight towns of Regional School Unit 20 will take a second shot at the district's 2013-14 budget in a referendum Tuesday, July 30. The $…
Extreme conditions dash plans for new course records
GLOUCESTER, Mass. - Howard Blackburn set a high bar for endurance rowing. While fishing off the coast of Newfoundland…
Art and extracurriculars out again, library and secretaries in again
SEARSPORT - Regional School Unit 20 voters trimmed the district's draft 2013-14 budget by just over $360,000 at a public budget meeting at Searsport District High School, July 22.
Monday…
Belfast sets referendum date, Belmont and Northport to come
BELFAST – After a fraught loss at the polls in June, activists from six Waldo County municipalities are launching a second campaign to withdraw from Regional…
Study finds room for 100 more cars downtown
BELFAST - City officials this week reviewed a list of ideas aimed at boosting the number of parking spaces downtown. A multi-level garage was not one of them.…
BELFAST - In the years before Belfast's celebrated downtown revival, a common refrain among longtime residents was that what the city really needed was a bowling alley.
Several years and one…
Start-ups and relocations fill Planning Board agenda
BELFAST – “Are we having a baby boom in Belfast that no one’s told us about,” Elizabeth Minor asked fellow Planning Board members Thursday in response to an…
Public meeting July 22, referendum July 30
BELFAST - In a split vote, the Regional School Unit 20 board of directors approved a revised 2013-14 budget that goes lighter on staff cuts than those that prompted a backlash in May, and easier…
Belfast brokers deal for trailhead parking and bathrooms
BELFAST - A series of deals struck this week has apparently cemented the future role of City Point Station as a shared hub for excursion train rides and a recreational rail trail.
Joe Feero…
Public meeting to be held July 22
BELFAST - The Regional School Unit 20 finance committee on Wednesday approved revisions to the 2013-14 budget, settling on a bottom line midway between the board's original austere budget and a…
Sampan on the Passy
BELFAST – A local blogger was on hand when Maynard Haslett launched his boat Shanty at the public landing in February. Later a few photos appeared…
Front Street Shipyard to Steamboat Landing
BELFAST – After seeing the Belfast Harbor Walk through several years of planning, residents could be forgiven for thinking the project was nothing more than a Planning Office pipe dream.
But…
Proposed expansion of downtown board ban draws strong opinions, no action
BELFAST – Motorcyclists cruising down sidewalks, jackasses joyriding the grade on wheeled office chairs, motorists picking roadkill out of their tire treads,…
Notes from abroad: BELFAST—BELGIQUE
I have had two pets in my lifetime. The first was a rare African frog that arrived in the mail, a surprise present from my grandparents. The second was a red-backed salamander (that I christened "…
Corrected: next meeting June 25
BELFAST – The Regional School Unit 20 Board of Directors met on Thursday for the first time since the district's 2013-14 budget was rejected by voters in all of its eight municipalities. Several…
Supporters see second chance in overlooked provision of law
BELFAST — A bid by six towns to withdraw from Regional School Unit 20 failed in Tuesday's referendum on a technicality requiring a minimum voter turnout. But it may not be off the table for two…
Apparent landslide victory for six-town movement fails on technicality
BELFAST - An ambitious bid by six Waldo County towns to secede from Regional School Unit 20 was approved by an overwheming majority of voters in a June 11 referendum. The vote won't count, however…
A database 10 years in the making, complete as can be
BELFAST - Steve Boguen recently finished digitizing the roughly 8,000 handwritten burial records of Grove Cemetery where he has served as superintendent for 34 years. He started the indexing…
Notes from abroad: BELFAST—BELGIQUE
NORMANDY, France – Belgium has a complicated relationship with France. On one hand, France offers sunny beaches, snow-capped mountains, picturesque countrysides, and vibrant cities…
Popular after school program ventures into Western Waldo County
THORNDIKE - Imaginary pets and fantasy warfare aren't explicitly addressed in the rules of Regional School Unit 3, and role playing probably falls…
