BELFAST - Privateer Lynx, a replica of an 1812 Baltimore Clipper ship, will be spending most of the month of July in Belfast. The City Council rolled out the welcome mat on Tuesday…
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Front Street Shipyard’s travel lifts take all sizes
BELFAST - Much has been said about the capacity of the two travel lifts at Front Street Shipyard. The smaller, 160-ton hoist was heralded as the largest of its kind north of Newport, Rhode Island…
‘Not your typical nine-to-five’
Sergeant Travis Ford works for the Rockport Police Department. He has been a sergeant for six years and a patrol officer for the Rockport PD for 15 years. Penbaypilot.com rode with him on a rainy…
Modest turnout a marked contrast from last year
BELFAST - “A clean budget.”
That was how Regional School Unit 20 Superintendent Brian Carpenter described draft…
Money to be used at former railroad property and sheriff’s office sites
BELFAST - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that Maine will receive $3.8 million in grant funding for environmental assessment and…
Witnesses reported overturned scull boat rower
CAMDEN — At 8:34 p.m., May 27, Maine warden divers recovered the body of James B. Wescott, 71, of Belfast, from Megunticook Lake in Camden.
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Bowling, fancy ketchup, frozen yogurt, underwear, mini golf and more ...
BELFAST - Whether you’re stretching your legs after a long winter’s hibernation or riding in from somewhere warmer, you’ve likely noticed some new businesses around the city. We visited a few of…
It began with a series of challenges amongst firefighters in Hancock County, which eventually spread south to the Midcoast. Take a polar plunge within 24 hours of being “called out” by the person…
Inside the bypass zones subject of June, July meetings
BELFAST - In the future, smaller lot sizes and backlot flexibility could allow more houses to spring up in the dense residential areas of the city located within the bypass. Setback rules could…
Rebuilt pier will come with major rate increase for some boaters
BELFAST - After sending the advisory Harbor Committee back to the drawing board earlier this month, the City Council on Tuesday approved a new fee schedule for slips at Thompson’s Wharf pier. The…
Rear end collision leads to head on crash
STOCKTON SPRINGS - A 79-year old man died in a crash Monday afternoon on Route 1 that involved three vehicles.
Lt. Aaron Hayden of Maine State Police said Tuesday that the collision that…
Moody is patient enough for modest waves, less so for an industry hooked on hazardous materials
MONROE - When he was in college, Josh Moody went with a friend to a skateboard shop in southern Maine. In the back of the store, there were a handful of surfboards. Moody thought it was joke.
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Lincolnville Select Board meeting results...
LINCOLNVILLE — In addition to listening to a budget overview and summary for the Five Town CSD, the Lincolnville Board of Selectmen Monday night learned about upcoming Recreation Commission…
Distracted driving blamed for accident
SEARSPORT - An driver was allegedly distracted when she drove into a utility pole in downtown Searsport, Monday. In addition to damage at the scene, the accident set off a cascade of disruptions…
Thompson’s Wharf pier rates remain in limbo
BELFAST – For years the city has charged a nominal rate for slips at Thompson’s Wharf pier with priority given to renters from previous years. Last week both of those practices came under scrutiny…
Training in the rain not bad; most accidents happen in bad weather
CAMDEN– Members of the Thomaston, Hope, Waldoboro, St. George and Camden fire departments assembled at Camden Exxon, 1 Union Street, Saturday, May 10, for training in extrication. The Camden Fire…
Hoboken Gardens says it with love
ROCKPORT — Mother’s Day is the single busiest day for Hoboken Gardens, busier even than Valentine’s Day.
“Everybody has a mother,” said …
STOCKTON SPRINGS – Town firefighters put out a fire that consumed a shed Wednesday night. A hour-and-a-half later, they were called back to the same Route 1 property for a fire on the porch of an…
Sale of blueberry processing business may be in the works
BELFAST – Last month Coastal Farms and Foods representatives announced …
Somewhere over Waldo County
NORTHPORT- Recently Belfast Community TV Station Manager Ned Lightner and Mark Kuzio, a regular contributor, were brainstorming about what to do with their new…
Manager focuses on city’s share at start of budget process
BELFAST - Even before Regional School Unit 20 hit major budget troubles, City Manager Joe Slocum regularly took pains to remind Belfast residents that only a fraction of their property tax bills…
Vote May 1 will finalize budget to take to voters
ROCKLAND — At an RSU 13 budget meeting Monday, April 28, at the McClain School in Rockland, the school board struggled to fund budget cuts to try and make the finances work. The board debated…
For Tyler Cross volunteering comes naturally, recognition less so
BELFAST - In a time when high school students are encouraged to pad their college applications with eye-catching acts of community service, Tyler Cross, the…
Going up in the bucket for a view from above and beyond Rockland
ROCKLAND — Every Thursday, come rain, snow or sunshine, the Rockland Fire Department pulls Tower Truck 3 out and Patrick Lowe takes the ladder up 97 feet to make sure it’s in proper working order…
BELFAST - Organizers of the Free Range Music Festival scaled back the successful citywide event this year, opting instead for a concert and party to raise money for next year’s festival and tide…
BELFAST - They came bearing branches adorned with paper flowers, dressed as puffins, polar bears, bees and humans of all stripes. Residents and visiting activists on Tuesday staged a festive…
Bay View Landing location is warm and inviting
CAMDEN — Peter Ott’s Restaurant reopened April 18 amid great fanfare and patrons turning out to see its new location on Bay View Landing, complete with water views, a rich, warm, new interior and…
Overhauled space offers comforts, computers, a little privacy
BELFAST - The funky risers and bean bags are gone from the second-floor room in the Belfast Free Library once reserved for small children. Also gone are the model trains and miniature puppet…
From the outdoors
I enjoy traveling to Montana, Alaska, British Columbia and other destinations. At the conclusion of each trip though, I'm eager to return home to Maine. Following is a short list of reasons why I…
Is the city missing the boat or taking the high road on parks fees?
BELFAST - Members of the City Council on Tuesday sparred over whether to waive the rental fee for two groups hoping to use of the Belfast Boathouse for educational events. The requests…
For a small school with no track, Boothbay Region High School fields an impressive outdoor track and field team. This year’s roster boasts 49 athletes, 33 of them male.
Last year, the…
Accumulations, approaches vary in other Midcoast municipalities
BELFAST - After a week of warm weather, brush and organic debris from winter has been piling up curbside, here.
Thanks to the ice storm, those piles are significantly bigger than usual…
One small house on Route 90, three days of valuable live fire training
Donated Rockport home provides seven live training fires Sunday morning before a final conflagration
ROCKPORT — The little house on West Street (Route 90) in Rockport that was donated to the fire department survived seven live fire training rotations Sunday morning before the structure became too…
Coastal Farms and Food Processing to shut doors after two years
BELFAST - After two years in business, Coastal Farms and Food Processing will be closing its doors at the end of the month.
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$3.8 million project expected to benefit Shipyard, McCrum, create 110 jobs
BELFAST - The U.S. Economic Development Administration on Tuesday awarded Belfast $1.9 million for a major overhaul of Front Street.
The grant would cover half the cost of the estimated $3.8…
Army Corps to repeat pre-application requirement closer to site
BELFAST - A proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maine Department of Transportation to deepen and extend the shipping channel at Mack Point cargo terminal in Searsport will be subject…
Splinter or dissolve
BELFAST - With all eight municipalities of Regional School Unit 20 considering plans to withdraw, simply dissolving the district might be a better idea. That’s…
Robert Wiggin: Sealer of weights and measures
BELFAST - When you buy a gallon of gas, how do you know it’s really a gallon? And what about a pound of apples?
There’s no guarantee you’ll get what you pay for. But if…
Lobster Mac and Cheese Rockland Style is a winner
ROCKLAND — We all have a past. Rockland City Councilor Louise MacLellan-Ruf shared hers on Saturday at the Penobscot School at 28 Gay Street in Rockland. In 2013, she won first place in the…
Classes start summer 2014
CAMDEN — Anyone serving, or who has served in the U.S. military, is now approved to receive training and certification under the G.I. Bill to become Montessori instructors, according to Martha…
Origin of odor reported by lakeside residents unknown
SWANVILLE - Several residents on the northwest side of Swan Lake caught wind of a gas smell Wednesday morning. After a visit from the Belfast Fire Department, the source remained a mystery.
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Public meeting in Belfast postponed until April 8
BELFAST - In a presentation to the The Propeller Club of Searsport and Bucksport last week, Captain David Gelinas made a lengthy case for the importance of…
Display of public art can be simple or complicated
ROCKLAND — Rockland’s Mayor Larry Pritchett did an excellent job moderating a special Rockland Council meeting Wednesday evening, March 19, as the community talked about how to accept and display…
Residents seek boost, get nudge from city in environmental cause
BELFAST - Residents seeking the city’s support in a campaign to remove fossil fuel companies from the Maine Public Employees Retirement System’s investment portfolio got an endorsement of sorts,…
Annual ‘April Stools Day’ clean up a no-go
BELFAST - For each of the last seven years, volunteers from Friends of Belfast Parks have donned rubber gloves and a sense of humor and picked up a winter’s worth of dog feces at the city’s…
Long-vacant business gets a new start, and a café
MONROE — The building at the center of town is immediately recognizable in the architectural lexicon of little towns. That residents considered using for something other than a general store…
Curtis Warren, a Senior at Belfast Area High School, was awarded the DAR Good Citizens Award, March 11.
The …
Gordon Page, Sr., takes over from Loraine Francis
ROCKLAND — Paul Benjamin, president of Rockland Main Street, introduced incoming executive director Gordon Page, Sr., to a small crowd during an informal reception hosted by the RMS board to…
Democratic challenger to Collins would seek out ‘unusual coalitions’
BELFAST - U.S. Senate candidate Shenna Bellows started making national headlines recently when her fundraising in the last quarter of 2013 surpassed that of three-term Senator Susan Collins.
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Incumbent and challenger win pair of seats on select board
SEARSPORT - Voters on Tuesday re-elected one selectmen, replaced another, and approved a measure to seek withdrawal from Regional School Unit 20.
In a four-way race for two seats on the…
