BELFAST - Voters in the city and four surrounding towns picked slate of fresh faces to lead their new school district, RSU 71. In elections held Jan. 13, newcomers prevailed over…
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Election results: Newcomers favored strongly over district veterans
Interest varies in surrounding towns; elections on Jan. 13
BELFAST - In special elections next Tuesday, voters in five towns will choose members for the inaugural Regional School Unit 71 board of directors.
Several contested races in the new…
BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Dec. 2 - Jan. 6. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
Nov. 18 (late entry)
Katrina R.L.…
Musician, hatmaker and ‘jazz poet’ gets Council nod, gold cape to follow
BELFAST - Toussaint St. Negritude has lived in a lot of places, but none that valued poetry as much. On Tuesday the City Council unimously voted to appoint him as poet laureate of Belfast.…
Superintendent submits resignation, effective June 30
BELFAST - Regional School Unit 20 Superintendent Brian Carpenter submitted his resignation on Monday. His last day will be June…
Annual wreath fundraiser coincides with Wreaths Across America visit
BELFAST - Dawn Voigt stood in the kitchen of the Parish House at First Church, bearing down on a tangle of red ribbon and wire. Ten minutes and a couple good stories later, she held up a bow for a…
Next steps laid out for new school district; police get a second SUV
BELFAST - The City Council on Tuesday approved a plan to make more space for boats and marine commerce in the inner harbor. For now, that means swapping out the loose scattering of single-…
Tree lighting ceremony scheduled for Saturday at new location
BELFAST - The city will be lighting a different tree this year to kick off the holiday season. In past years, crowds gathered a the towering pine outside City Hall. There was hot cocoa and carols…
Belfast City Council preview, Dec. 2
BELFAST – A plan to reorganize moorings in Belfast Harbor would free up space for current users, including commercial fishermen and boat workers. It would also raise the bar for…
Has been used as a shooting range, for boxing matches and roller skating. What next?
BELFAST - Maine Preservation last month released its list of …
Goals in the works, budget on the horizon, and lots to do in the meantime
BELFAST - With two new members since the Nov. 4 election, the Belfast City Council came together informally on Monday to talk about goals for the coming year.
City Manager Joe Slocum said …
With six towns slated to leave next year, what’s in the cards for Searsport and Stockton Springs?
BELFAST - At the first Regional School Unit 20 board meeting since the election that effectively exploded the district, there…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity Oct. 27 - Nov. 7. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
Oct. 27
Stephen A. Smith, 27…
Celebration in Belfast for Daniel Krajack’s ‘Visiting Hope’
Daniel Krajack worked almost a dozen years as copy editor for both the Republican Journal and the Waldo Independent in…
Cedar Street is not a secret this time of year. The amount of candy that moves out of Belfast’s ten-block Halloween landing strip is the stuff of lore. The unprepared homeowner runs through a…
BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Oct. 18-28. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
Oct. 8 (late entry)
Mariah K. Valliere,…
Financing would consolidate existing debt, make future projects possible
BELFAST - Front Street Shipyard has been selected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development to receive a $10 million Business & Industry Guaranteed Loan.
Speaking on Oct.…
BELFAST - The parking lot of Belfast Area High School was filled on Oct. 23. The occasion wasn’t a home football game. It was the…
Council approves City Park improvements, zoning odds and ends, introduces Washington Street redevelopment
BELFAST - Sewer bills will be going up by 7-percent in 2015 and another 7-percent in 2016. The City Council approved the request from Wastewater Superintendent John Carman on Tuesday, but not…
BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Oct. 7-20. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
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Middle School Cross Country
BELFAST — Several middle school cross country programs gathered Monday, Oct. 20 at Belfast’s Troy Howard middle school in hopes of leaving with the championship crown.
The course was 2.1…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Belfast District Court Aug. 29- Sept. 18.
Gregory Aldus, 48, of…
‘We’ve got power, apparently, in this district and we’re still getting whacked.’
BELFAST - Augusta has shifted expenses to cities and towns. This is what municipal, county and school district officials say when they aren’t tearing each other limb from limb over rising property…
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
ROCKPORT — From coaches yelling commands, players roaring and grunting, to the constant chatter and clapping of the crowd, the air was thick with noise at the Camden Hills versus Belfast high…
Thief may have carried stolen items in laundry basket
BELFAST — Belfast Police are asking anyone with information about the burglary of a Route 52 residence earlier this week to come forward.
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BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Superior Court Sept. 19 – Oct.2.
Ryan Drake, 35, of Troy, stalking (serious inconvenience/emotional distress) in Unity June 15, 2013…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff's Office reported the following activity Oct. 2 – 14. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
Oct. 2
Colby Stevens, 19, of…
BELFAST — If you happened to be downtown Saturday, Oct. 11, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., you may have heard the sound of music, or even seen the people hula-hooping and dancing in the courtyard off…
‘Power Purchase Agreement’ would pass on some benefits of federal tax credits to city
BELFAST – Last week, the City Council approved a deal with ReVision Energy to install a 180-panel, 45.9 kilowatt solar energy…
Council OKs temporary fix for trestle river crossing
BELFAST - Workers pulled up much of the old track from a two-mile section of the former Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad corridor last week, clearing the way for a new a pedestrian and biking…
Maine XC Festival of Champions
BELFAST — Runners from 72 Maine high schools, as well as from five high schools across Rhode Island, Vermont, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, descended on Belfast — namely, Troy Howard…
Social services, healthcare organizations and police band together to lift stigma from substance addiction
BELFAST – Pat Kaplan wants to bring the problem of drug and alcohol addiction out in the open.
How much out in the open?
“I can picture a sign, ‘Our town Belfast: a…
BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Sept. 17-25. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
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Sun-glare and fog contribute to crashes
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff's Department reported the following activity Sept. 15-27. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
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Fallen limbs, close calls, and the city’s strange relationship with marginal woods
BELFAST - In front of 81 Pearl Street, there’s an unremarkable horse chestnut tree.
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Local ballot will feature one name per Council ward
BELFAST - The lone contested City Council race recently became a one-candidate affair. Kassie Merrill withdrew her name earlier…
Aviation scene commissioned for hangar at Belfast Airport
BELFAST - It's hard to imagine David Hurley being intimidated by a request to paint a mural.
In downtown Belfast, his depictions of cats poised in windowsills and…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Superior Court Aug. 25-Sept. 18.
Cierra Cassidy, 22, of Belfast, robbery in Swanville July 1, 2012, three years in prison with all…
BELFAST — The following divorces were recently granted in Waldo County Superior Court.
Tammie D. Marr, of Lincolnville, and Jonathan D. Marr, of South Thomaston, were married Nov. 27, 2010…
BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Sept. 4-15. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
Sept. 4
Joyce A. Christie, 62, of…
BELFAST — What better way to spend a late summer day than amongst a deluge of dachshunds? For the many participants of this years 11th annual Wienerfest, which bills itself as a “celebration of…
Residential, commercial and waterfront areas to be addressed at Boathouse session
BELFAST - The City Council will hold a public hearing Wednesday night on a slate of proposed zoning changes that would apply to all properties inside the bypass. The hearing, to be held at the…
What is it going to be?
BELFAST - What’s being built next to Dunkin Donuts on Starrett Drive?
It’s sort of a trick question.
Over the past…
Charged with criminal mischief
BELFAST — Two local teens are each facing 10 charges of criminal mischief after police identified them as responsible for political graffiti that appeared on the walls of local businesses between…
Small surplus and big projects expected to sap cash flow
BELFAST - For over 20 years, the city has kept enough money in reserve to pay salaries, bills and other expenses during the gap between the end of the fiscal year and the arrival of the first tax…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Belfast District Court July 9 – Aug. 28.
Nicholas G. Adams, 20, of Frankfort, failure to register a vehicle in Frankfort June 27, $100 fine.
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Two vye for Ward 5 seat; no takers for RSU 20 board
BELFAST - 2014 was shaping up to be another year of uncontested City Council races. But a pair of last-minute entrants from Ward 5 have changed that. …
Injuries to drivers, passengers deemed non life threatening in both incidents
BELFAST - A pair of motor vehicle accidents Wednesday afternoon kept local emergency crews busy. Police said there were no life-threatening injuries despite damage to the vehicles that suggested…
‘Pizza! Pizza!’ chain sees market, seeks operator
DETROIT, Mich. — Little Caesars, the restaurant chain that turned a pint-sized plutocrat repeating the word “pizza” into one of the more memorable ad campaigns of the 1980s, is looking to…
Work session on citywide drainage issues to be held Tuesday
BELFAST - On Tuesday, the City Council is scheduled to hold a work session on “various drainage issues in Belfast.” Behind the innocuous name, the meeting is bit of vindication Seaview Terrace…
