ROCKLAND — Mim Bird, owner of Over the Rainbow Yarn shop in Rockland, likes to have a little fun with her staff and customers. Every Monday she posts a ”Fabulous or Godawful” knitwear idea for discussion on their Facebook page. Recently, she posted a pair of “Godawful” knit leggings and received a link to designer Steven West’s Westknits design page, who happens to be “a hipster young knitwear designer in the knitting universe,” said Bird.

Christmas by the Sea weekend is almost here, and there's plenty of holiday festivities on tap to fill your head and heart full of Christmas cheer.

SWANVILLE - Selectmen on Thursday set a date of Dec. 17 for a municipal referendum on whether to seek withdrawal from Regional School Unit 20.

Swanville is the last of six towns from the former School Administrative District 34 to hold the preliminary vote on withdrawal.

The Monhegan Energy Task Force, a volunteer group of Monhegan residents consisting of representatives from the Monhegan Plantation Power District (MPPD) and the island’s assessors’ office, as well as several concerned citizens, is leading the process of engaging the community in discussions with Maine Aqua Ventus about its proposed pilot project. 

CAMDEN — There are just 21 days left until Christmas, and North East Mobile Health ambulance service and Camden Fire Department are working together to collect gifts to be donated to the Toys for Tots campaign.

AUGUSTA — The state Department of Professional and Financial Regulation is warning consumers that a Rockport resident, doing business on Route 90 in Warren, is not licensed to provide the accounting services she advertises and promotes.

ROCKPORT — The school board overseeing Camden Hills Regional High School will continue exploratory discussions tonight about educating some St. George students, should that community ever withdraw from RSU 13, the school district of which it is currently a member.