MaineHealth has launched an innovative primary care service designed to transform how Mainers access and experience care. Trellis Health, with its first practice at 1945 Congress Street in Portland, offers a membership model that includes a primary care provider, behavioral health specialist, pharmacist, physical therapist and a health coach all collaborating as a coordinated team.

BELFAST — Applications are open for Waldo CAP and Neighbor for Neighbor Coalition's 2025 holiday assistance in Waldo County.

Anyone Waldo County residents with a need can request food boxes for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas and Christmas gifts for children in a household.

ROCKLAND — The week of September 16, 2025, OUT Maine received a $20,000 grant from United Midcoast Charities to support the organization’s work towards expanding support, advocacy, and affirming programs for LGBTQ+ youth in Knox and Waldo counties.

Knox Clinic Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Clifford Dacso, MD, MPH, has been awarded the 2025 Mary F. Cushman, MD Award for Humanitarian Service by the Maine Medical Association, one of the state’s highest honors for volunteer physicians.

BELFAST — The MaineHealth Waldo Hospital healing garden, which can be seen from the hospital’s cancer care and IV therapy unit, has has been completed. 

The garden, made possible entirely through the generosity of donors, features a stone wall, flower beds, plants and bird feeders, offering a calming and supportive view for patients undergoing lengthy, often hours-long treatments, according to MaineHealth. The space is designed to support healing not just physically, but emotionally, creating a more compassionate and comforting care environment.

Midcoast Maine nonprofits are invited to apply to be selected as the beneficiary of proceeds from Midcoast Community Chorus’ June 2026 concert.

"For this upcoming year, the choral group will provide a $5,000 grant to benefit a Midcoast nonprofit organization that helps to fill a need in our local community," said MCC.

Join Georges River Land Trust, Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, and the City of Rockland’s Parks and Rec Department and Trails Committee for a hands-on workshop covering common invasive species in Maine, how to identify them, and proper pulling practices.

This workshop will be held Tuesday, Oct. 7, from 3 - 5 p.m. The rain date is Thursday, Oct. 9.

During the workshop, participants will work to remove invasive species along the Bog Overlook Trail.

HALLOWELL — In a Sept. 16 news release, Maine's Public Advocate said she is concerned about the scale of a Central Maine Power Company spending plan that would, if approved, affect customers beginning in October 2026.

CMP filed a five-year, $1.4 billion-plus spending plan, with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). 

ROCKPORT — Two care team members from MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital were recently honored with employee awards during a ceremony held on the hospital campus. Each quarter, the hospitals recognize care team members who have won any of the organization’s employee awards.

Sarah Smith, RN, Obstetrics and Gynecology Rockport, won the DAISY Award this quarter.

Kendal Hopkins, ED technician II, won the Sunshine Award.

National POW MIA Recognition Day events will be held September 21, beginning at 10 a.m., on the Camden Village Green. Camden's War Memorial Post 30, American Legion members will read the names of the Maine U. S. Armed Services members, from all wars, who are still unaccounted for.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day is observed annually in September. The central theme is to demonstrate the ongoing commitment to ensure the full accountability of captured service members and missing war heroes to their families.

Soil Health Field Day heads to Sheepscot General Store and Farm, in Whitefield, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

The community is invited to join Matt Boucher, State Soil Scientist with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry, and Knox-Lincoln SWCD to hear about “Erosion and Winter Cover” for the last of the Soil Health Field Days series.

The 2025 Maine Hire-A-Vet Campaign is continuing with an event September 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the University of Maine Orono.

Maine's annual Hire-A-Vet Campaign is a statewide effort with the goal of at least 100 employers hiring at least 100 veterans and military family members during a 100-day period. The campaign kicked off August 14 at the Augusta Civic Center.

Upcoming events:

In celebration of its 150th anniversary, Camden National Bank closed its offices and banking centers at noon on Wednesday, September 10, to host a bank-wide afternoon of volunteering, declaring it a Community Well-being Day. A group of dedicated employees organized this initiative to encourage meaningful service across the communities the bank serves.

ROCKPORT — MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital welcomes Mikaela Coburn-Pierce, MD, to its Palliative Care practice.

Dr. Coburn-Pierce joins PBH after completing her fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine – Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Madison, Wisconsin.