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April 30 Camden Hills spring sports
Camden Hills hosts track meet
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Lang makes Windjammer wrestling history, Andrews makes lasting impression
Rockland Tides
Tuesday, 05/22
5:17 AM
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11.05′
11:42 AM
Low
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6:08 PM
High
10.44′
Wednesday, 05/23
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6:26 AM
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10.80′
12:44 PM
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7:11 PM
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10.62′
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Belfast Tides
Tuesday, 05/22
5:13 AM
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11.13′
11:35 AM
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-0.24′
5:58 PM
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10.62′
Wednesday, 05/23
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0.77′
6:20 AM
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10.82′
12:39 PM
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7:01 PM
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10.73′
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2017 Tax Reform and the impact on Alimony decreed after 2018: Divorce is hard enough…don’t be blind-sided by this one!
Would you have done what this man did?
A lesson from Noelle
Mercury is retrograde March 22-April 15
Talk
LYME TIME with Paula Jackson Jones
Barbara Dyer: Camden in 1880
Maine ferry rate increase: Inequitable and unreasonable
Letter to the editor: in support of Jan Dodge for Maine House District 97
Letter to the editor: Don’t sell Rockland short
Culture
Ellen Goldsmith: Walden
Belfast’s Forest Audio gives musicians a professional sound
Belfast Harbor Artisans gets new home on Main Street
Belfast Fourth Friday Art Walk receives new additions in 2018
Coastal Mountains Land Trust’s Arts on the Hill features Bay Chamber’s Odeon Ensembles
Life
Local Maine Maritime Academy basketball players discuss college life, lend perspective
Camden-Rockport School Board to ‘value-engineer’ (cut features) of new middle school
Café Miranda celebrates 25 years with ‘flock party’ to benefit Knox County Homeless Coalition
LYME TIME with Paula Jackson Jones
Following over-budget bids, Camden-Rockport board to discuss new building financing
Sports
Local Maine Maritime Academy basketball players discuss college life, lend perspective
13 compete in Waldoboro Pitch, Hit, Run competition
Maine Marine Patrol encourages safety as recreational boating season begins
Rockport Fire and Police hold second annual charity golf tournament
Oceanside baseball, softball top Belfast
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Governor LePage seeks input on a new era in Maine energy
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Ellen Goldsmith: Walden
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was the homework for my evening class at a community college where I was pretty new and the students came to class tired from a hard day’s work, tired but they did the reading and I was tired too because my house was being painted and I felt weighted down by too many coffee table...
Single-vehicle crash knocks out power in Rockport
ROCKPORT — A single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon, May 20, on Commercial Street (Route 1) south of Pascal Ave., knocked out power to neighboring residents and businesses after the driver struck a utility pole, snapping it in half. At approximately 3 p.m., first responders were called to the scene...
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Local Maine Maritime Academy basketball players discuss college life, lend perspective
CASTINE — Three basketball players on the rosters at Maine Maritime Academy spent their high school careers in the Midcoast. Below are the interviews with each of the local alums — Nick Judge, Nicholas DePatsy and Melinda Ogden — who played basketball at Maine Maritime Academy. The purpose of these...
To mitigate 26 percent increase in project cost
Camden-Rockport School Board to ‘value-engineer’ (cut features) of new middle school
CAMDEN — The Camden-Rockport School Board is warming to a fiscal solution following news that the new $26 million middle school project is $5.82 million over budget. At a May 21 special meeting, the board agreed to cut 10 percent from the project, perhaps eliminating the auditorium and new playing...
Governor LePage seeks input on a new era in Maine energy
AUGUSTA – As Governor Paul R. LePage described in his Weekly Radio Address for the week of May 13, he is asking for input from experts regarding how Maine can benefit from the changing energy environment. As states to our south increasingly look to Maine and Canada to meet their renewable energy...
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Midcoast Athletics
13 compete in Waldoboro Pitch, Hit, Run competition
WALDOBORO — Begley Field at the Waldoboro Recreation Complex was the site of the Pitch, Hit and Run event Sunday, May 20 that saw 13 athletes participating across three divisions for the opportunity to qualify for the sectional competition. The three divisions were 9/10 girls, 9/10 boys and 11/12...
Affordable, small-scale music production
Belfast’s Forest Audio gives musicians a professional sound
BELFAST — Forest Audio, a 16-track music production studio on the back side of the candy-striped building on 9 Field Street, has only been in existence for a little more than a year, but, local musicians already like the sound of it. Steve Chiasson, a singer-songwriter and musician, just wanted to...
Belfast Fourth Friday Art Walk receives new additions in 2018
BELFAST — On every Fourth Friday, May through September, the streets of Belfast are transformed into a whimsical wonderland to celebrate the warm summer evenings. From 5:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. you may follow the sound of music, where on any corner a fiddler, crooner or cool jazz soloist will...
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Grand re-opening is Friday, May 25 at 69 Main Street
Belfast Harbor Artisans gets new home on Main Street
BELFAST—More than 60 artists and 18 members of Belfast Harbor Artisans have, once again, found a home on 69 Main Street in Belfast. After their lease ran out three years ago across the street, the artist cooperative found themselves without a gallery. “We have been looking for a space ever since,”...
Maine Marine Patrol encourages safety as recreational boating season begins
AUGUSTA — May 19-25 is National Safe Boating Week, and the Maine Marine Patrol wants to remind recreational boaters to stay safe while enjoying Maine's waters. "This summer, thousands of boaters will spend time with friends and family on Maine's coastal waters, rivers and lakes," said Maine Marine...
Benefit celebration in partnership with Hannaford Chef’s Table program
Café Miranda celebrates 25 years with ‘flock party’ to benefit Knox County Homeless Coalition
ROCKLAND — On Thursday, June 7, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. a family-friendly, tented block —make that flock —Party in honor of Café Miranda's 25th Anniversary will commence at Oak and Orient streets in Rockland. Admission is free as are most activities. The Nikki Hunt Band will be performing...
Coastal Mountains Land Trust’s Arts on the Hill features Bay Chamber’s Odeon Ensembles
ROCKPORT— Coastal Mountains Land Trust's popular Arts on the Hill series brings musicians from Bay Chamber's Music School up to Beech Nut on Tuesday, June 12 at 6 p.m. Three ensembles made up of youth and adults will fill the old hut with their sweet music: the
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Art Space to debut new show in time for June First Friday
ROCKLAND — A new show will be presented at Art Space Gallery in time for Rockland’s June First Friday, which falls on Friday, June 1. The show will feature exciting new work by four artist-members including photography, wood, painting and mixed media. Artists included in the show include Lori Davis...
Man who caused Rockland standoff sentenced to three years in jail
ROCKLAND — A Bangor man who barricaded himself in a motel room at the Trade Winds Inn in Rockland Feb. 11, and was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff with police, has been sentenced to three years in jail. Timothy N. St. Thomas, 61, appeared in Knox County Unified Court for his...
Francine Bistro building purchased, renovated for new tenant
CAMDEN — Mark Senders, new owner of the Francine Bistro building on 55 Chestnut Street in Camden, has a long association with the former restaurant run by chef Brian Hill. Senders, who is current owner of The Bagel Café on 25 Mechanic Street in Camden and the Big T Snack Shack operating part-time...
MDOT to Woolwich: Stop tunnel mural
The Maine Department of Transportation has put the brakes on a mural schoolchildren were painting in Woolwich’s pedestrian tunnel. Selectmen and school officials were notified by the state the project can’t continue. The tunnel adjacent to the town’s veteran’s memorial was built in the late 1990s...
First Responder
Rockport Fire and Police hold second annual charity golf tournament
The Rockport Fire and Police departments are hosting their second annual charitable tournament at Goose River Golf Saturday June 9, starting at 8 a.m. The teams will compete in a scramble format over 18 holes using handicaps. The Fire Department is holding a raffle on prizes donated by local...
Nick Apollonio & Friends to kick off Sail, Power & Steam Museum concert series
ROCKLAND — Rockport-based singer, songwriter, guitar-maker, and fiddler Nick Apollonio will be joined by guitarist-singer Will Brown and Celtic harpist-singer Amy Kercsmar to kick off a brand-new Friday night concert series at the Sail, Power and Steam Museum in Rockland on Friday, June 1 at 7:30 p...
Midcoast Athletics
Oceanside baseball, softball top Belfast
BEFLAST — The Oceanside varsity baseball and softball programs hit the road Monday, May 21 to challenge Belfast, and both Oceanside teams returned home victorious. In baseball, Oceanside improved to 11-2 with the victory, while Belfast dropped to 7-6. In softball, Oceanside improved to 11-2 with...
‘The Monhegan Museum: Celebrating Fifty Years’ exhibition
The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History on Monhegan Island, Maine. Founded by artists and islanders in 1968, the museum draws visitors from all over the world to its outstanding collection and historic architecture, including a working lighthouse built...
LYME TIME with Paula Jackson Jones
THEY SAID WHAT?! “You’re too sick to have chronic Lyme,” “Once you have Lyme, you can’t get it again,” “You didn’t get the bulls-eye so you’re all set,” “You been treated so any residual symptoms will fade in time,” “You’ve been listening to quack group too much, you need to stay away from them.”...
Rockland City Manager’s Report
ROCKLAND – In the previous two weeks, City budget planners heard from the YMCA as part of the third budget meeting. Three dog bites were reported. Closing the landfill was discussed. Times of vulnerability at area schools were assessed. North Haven and Vinalhaven firefighters trained, and annual...
Three generations of women open gallery highlighting unconventional art, salvage
Lost things, found ones, inspire Liberty Head Arts & Found
LIBERTY — The women behind Liberty Head Arts & Found are related, but it took a family tragedy to unite them all in Maine where they have collaborated to create Liberty Head Arts & Found, which will open May 25. Maggie McGaw, along with her grandmother, Marty Rowe, and aunt, Morgan Rowe,...
Down to sea
Barbara Dyer: Camden in 1880
None of us were here in the year 1880, but Camden was. Some things have not changed but many things are quite different today. Camden did include what is now Rockport ( then called Goose River), West Rockport (then called West Camden), Rockville and Glen Cove (then called Clam Cove). So it did...
This Week in Lincolnville: Start with a vision
Forty-eight years ago today … or yesterday … or was it last week …. we began gardening here at the house at the top of Sleepy Hollow. Nat Stone, owner of the house which wasn’t to become ours until July, had directed Bud Feener and his tractor to the wild tangle of alders and raspberries...
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Deck Bar & Grill at Linekin Bay Resort Opening May 25th for Dinner!
Linekin Bay Resort
5/22
The Deck Bar & Grill is opening for the season on May 25th at 5pm for dinner!
PapaPalooza - A Day For Father's & Families!
Newagen Seaside Inn
5/22
Join us to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!
The Pub at Newagen Seaside Inn - Dinner MENU
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5/22
The Pub at Newagen Seaside Inn is OPEN for the season!
18th Annual Southport Fireman's Dinner - Newagen Seaside Inn
Newagen Seaside Inn
5/22
Join us to support the Southport Fire Department!
The Pub at Newagen Seaside Inn - LUNCH MENU
Newagen Seaside Inn
5/22
Join us at The Pub in the State of Unwind at Newagen Seaside Inn!
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Spruce Point Inn - Maine’s Classic Oceafront Resort
5/22
Spruce Point Inn’s restaurants are recognized as some of the top dining spots in Boothbay Harbor...
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Beyond The Sea in Lincolnville Beach open 10:30-5:00
Beyond the Sea
5/21
Beyond The Sea, in Lincolnville Beach is open for the season. There are many new titles in both new...
2018 West Bay Rotary Duck Derby
West Bay Rotary
5/22
On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 11:30 am, 3,500 rubber ducks will take the plunge over the falls in...
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Mother’s Day Tea Held at The Lincoln Home
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5/22
The living room at The Lincoln Home was transformed into a Japanese Tea room Friday, May 11, to...
Going Zero Waste in 2018 Talk at Camden Library Tonight
Dulse & Rugosa Maine Island Botanicals
5/22
Tonight at the Camden Library Claire T Weinberg will share her wins and failures as she travels...
Ashwood Waldorf School Tour
Ashwood Waldorf School
5/22
Event Date:
Wed, May 23 - 8:15 am
Join us for the last scheduled tour of this school year! Visit grades 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6, then meet...
Camden Montessori to Host Spring Open House
Children's House Montessori School
5/22
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5/21
The Happy Hippy welcomes you to a brand new edition of The Salty Paws. That’s for the month of May...
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Destiny Eastgate Ministries
5/20
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5/19
Enchanted by the May Mists of Maine Friday, May 18th, 2018 Mornings on the water in the secret...
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