BELFAST – I can feel the paint creeping in between my toes. It’s cold and wet and borderline uncomfortable, but I know if I move I will mess up the shot. It’s crawling over my big toe now, but my…
Belfast
Council divided, votes to ban the pets outright
BELFAST – The shaded lanes of Grove Cemetery have long invited visitors looking for peaceful place to walk, but according to cemetery superintendent Steve…
Referendum on revised budget to be held June 11
BELFAST - Voters from the eight towns of Regional School Unit 20 on Thursday added almost $1 million back into the district's proposed 2013-14 budget in an attempt to restore staff positions and…
Skipped town for the winter? Here's some of what's new
BELFAST - If summer residents of Belfast share one thing aside from a love of their adoptive city, it might be a subscription to Down East Magazine. For those who don't, there was an…
A special launch in Castine, in many ways all in a day's work
BELFAST - Some time back, Captain John Worth overheard a woman who was touring her visiting friend along the waterfront. Worth had just returned from a night…
Board made the wrong cuts according to teachers, staff
BELFAST - The Regional School Unit 20 board of directors on Tuesday heard objections from district teachers and staff members to the elimination of certain positions in the district's proposed…
Sixty-nine-foot workshop would hit ceiling on vessel size, representatives say
BELFAST - Plans and sketches for a proposed building at Front Street Shipyard that would be the business' largest to date have been in discussion for months, but on Thursday representatives used…
Plans include new amenities at Oak Hill Road crossing
BELFAST — The crossing of the former Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad at Oak Hill Road could become a outlying hub for city recreation and tourism, according to a picture painted at a meeting…
Public to vote on components of budget on May 30
BELFAST - The 2013-14 budget approved by the Regional School Unit 20 board of directors on this Tuesday seemingly left little for anyone to be happy about — $1.7 million in cuts to the budget drew…
Belfast the subject of new take on popular photo blog
BELFAST - Last Thursday, Alexandra Chapin took her dog to the beach. She also took her camera in hopes of collecting portraits for her Facebook page…
A sample of three bands that wowed the crowd
BELFAST - The streets of Belfast are flooded with people looking to get their music fix... of every type. The fourth annual celebration of Belfast's Free Range Music Festival is currently ongoing…
Maine Maritime Products and Mathews Bros. back away from original plans
BELFAST — Expansions by two Belfast businesses that were heralded earlier this year and given city-sponsorship for grant applications totalling over a half-million dollars have been taken off the…
New developments underway at Front Street Shipyard, Mathews Bros.
BELFAST- The waterfront was quiet on Sunday, but from Steamboat Landing to the Footbridge, evidence of the coming Belfast Harbor Walk was everywhere. The $1.5 million pedestrian and bicycle…
A conversation with Dr. David Loxterkamp
BELFAST - Early in his book What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care, David Loxterkamp says that for as long as he could remember he…
Ciao, arbor vitae
BELFAST - Workers from Maine Earth, of Hampden, were busy laying down a double row of tall screening shrubs between Belfast Common and Steamboat Landing Monday in the first substantial work on the…
Developer leaves party early, town officials stay, tidy up
SEARSPORT - The Planning Board finished deliberations Thursday night on a proposed liquefied petroleum gas (propane) storage and distribution facility, ruling that the application by Denver, Colo…
'Scottish Sushi' smoker expects to double production capacity, hire 40 to 50
BELFAST - Ducktrap River of Maine on Tuesday announced plans for a major expansion that would increase the size of its seafood smoking and processing facility by neary 50 percent, double the…
Students find living history of World War II, often close to home
BELFAST - What was life like during World War II, and how was it different than life during today's wars?
That was the big question posed to fifth graders from the Extended Learning program…
New owners see a future in century-old hydroelectric system
BELFAST - Nicholas Berner and Nicholas Cabral, third year students at Maine Maritime Academy, recently made one of many trips from Castine to their new office in Belfast, an unassuming…
Updated with comments - Orono parks director, Norman Poirier, to start in April
BELFAST - The City Council on Tuesday appointed Norman Poirier as the city's new Parks and Recreation Department director, filling a six-month vacancy and leaving city officials optimistic about…
"It's still surprising when the musicians sign up and people start buying passes"
BELFAST - Organizers of the Belfast Free Range Music Festival on Friday…
Getting out of an RSU is harder than it seems
BELFAST - Steve Hutchings, the Belfast Area High School Teacher who started the effort now underway in six towns of former School Administrative District 34 to back out of the consolidated…
Notes from abroad: BELFAST—BELGIQUE
I have experienced my fair share of predawn excursions over the course of my exchange. While living with my first host family, I fled Belgium under starry skies for Paris, England, and the…
What are those things?
BELFAST - One of the massive yellow and black things on the Belfast waterfront Thursday was a crane. But you've probably guessed that.
The others, according to James Harkins, project manager…
Belfast's first same-sex marriage held at City Hall
BELFAST - Gabrielle Eiholzer and Opal Ash were about to relax after a round of photos in the Council chambers at City Hall, when a woman's voice could be heard urging them to stay for a few more…
Make that 485 tons
BELFAST - Front Street Shipyard supersized its plans for a new travel lift this week, upgrading from a 300-ton to a 485-ton (440-metric ton) model.
The hoist is part of a planned expansion,…
Contact Sheet
BELFAST - There's a building just south of Belfast's central intersection best described as home to High Street…
The food entrepreneurs of Coastal Farms
BELFAST - Julie Romano may not have been the first to ink a deal with Coastal Farms Food Processing, but when the facility's commercial kitchen opened last summer, she was quick to get in the door…
Improvements to dangerous intersection, RSU 20 withdrawal and Harbor Walk
BELFAST - Front Street Shipyard may start work as soon as today on a series of marine improvements, according to Shipyard President JB Turner, who confirmed…
Keeping up with Canada
BELFAST — For years Maine lobster fishermen have felt caught in a system governed by big seafood processors in Canada. Maine Maritime Products is not…
Made you smile
BELFAST - During his 28 years at the U.S. Postal Service's Belfast office, Steve Clark, who is retiring this week, developed a memorable style of customer service.
It wasn't the way he…
The food entrepreneurs of Coastal Farms
BELFAST - It was on a break from college, visiting the family of his future-wife, that Brian McCarthy tasted dilly beans for the first time. His thought at the time was: why have I never had these…
BELFAST – Jan Anderson was serving on the City Council in 2009 when she first shared her vision of Belfast becoming a regional storage and processing hub for farmers and food entrepreneurs. Her…
Post-consolidation contract spans 2012-2014
STOCKTON SPRINGS - After four years of negotiations and three years of no contract, teachers and staff from Regional School Unit 20 reached an agreement with the district's board of directors on a…
Armistice Group waiting in the wings, with benches
BELFAST - A grant proposal to fund new seating and lighting on the footbridge…
'ADA-compliant goat path' nixed as too extravagant
BELFAST - A recreational rail trail along the Passagassawakeag River continued to take shape on Tuesday night as the City Council reviewed a feasibility study…
Notes from abroad: BELFAST—BELGIQUE
My first host family's van held a special place in my exchange. The seven-seat Citroen had taken us to the wide…
Graphics: What they were showing us
BELFAST - At the end of his first year on the job, Harrie D. Eckler, Belfast's first city manager, summed up the perennial public relations puzzle of government officials in a single sentence,…
$293 million deal to close in second quarter
WATERTOWN, Mass. - Athenahealth, the web-based medical billing services provider, announced today an agreement to acquire…
'Credit enhancement'
BELFAST - Should the city give tax breaks to big businesses that want to open shop in Belfast, or to established ones hoping to expand? The question was the topic of a City Council work session on…
Happy New Year 2013!
BELFAST - New Year's by the Bay, the city's alcohol-free first night celebration, marked its sixteenth year last night. Judging from packed houses at the dozens of concerts and performances…
Notes from abroad: BELFAST—BELGIQUE
Belgium is a divided country. One need only look at a map to see the black line that snakes across the little country, cutting it in half. To the North lies Flanders and its Dutch-speaking…
Start dates vary widely according to town office hours
Same sex marriage becomes a legal option for Maine residents Saturday, Dec. 29. And while Midcoast towns are unlikely to be issuing them at midnight as is planned in Portland, some Waldo County…
10-percent of your tax bill
MIDCOAST - County government expenses, including the sheriff's department, corrections facilities, emergency management and 911 dispatch centers, account for around 10 percent of property tax…
Bonus video: what are all those building numbers about?
(Editor's note: Questions from residents about building numbers referred to at the Shipyard led City Councilor Mike Hurley and BEL-TV's Ned Lightner to film a short video tour of the property…
Who's angry?
BELFAST - The thought of adding seats and lighting to the footbridge (a.k.a. Armistice Bridge) brought an angry contingent of veterans to City Hall last month. When the topic came up again on Dec…
Why the city's gone three months without a Parks director
BELFAST — The city manager, in his Dec. 18 report, said he expects to be advertising soon for the vacant park director's position.
The move would be standard procedure were it not for the…
What does the Mass.-based medical billing company's $168.5 million hometown investment mean for Maine?
WATERTOWN, Mass - Last week, athenahealth, a provider of web-based billing services for independent physicians' practices, made headlines after inking an agreement to buy the 29-acre Arsenal on…
Artists in the Arctic
BELFAST - A group of artists traveling by boat to the Arctic today could be blithely overlooked as a facet of the eco-tourism industry, but in 1869, the year nautical painter William Bradford set…
