• For those coming back to Maine for the summer, here's what's new...

    Welcome back to Camden-Rockport, snowbats!

    CAMDEN-ROCKPORT - Your first logical question is: "What's a snowbat?" It's a twist on the phrase "moonbats," locally coined by Belfast promoter Mike Hurley in a Down East magazine article last December. Penonscot Bay Pilot reporter Ethan Andrews prefered the term "snowbat" over "snowbird" in his article, Welcome back to Belfast snowbats! - so we're stealing it.

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  • They're off! Running For Your Life at Camden Snow Bowl

    CAMDEN — The first two heats of the three-heat 5K Run For Your Life adventure race at Camden Snow Bowl began just after 9 a.m. with 34 intrepid runners starting up Ragged Mountain. Just before the second heat began, the first batch of runners crossed the finish line, successfully swimming across Hosmer Pond and leaping over fire. Race results and photos will be added as the race continues.

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  • HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS

    Midcoast area tennis teams off to the playoffs

    With the first spring sport regular season finished the Maine Principals  Association has announced the final Heal Point standings and they look good for a number of midcoast area teams.

    With four boys teams and four girls teams that play in the Eastern Class B division from the midcoast, two boys teams and three girls teams will be in the hunt for a state championship when the playoffs get underway next week.

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  • AREA SPORTS

    Pilot Daily Sports Schedule, Saturday, May 25

    We will post the postponements if any today in this story so check back before heading out to a game today.

    Here are the scheduled games for the local midcoast spring sports season teams today. Let us know if your team is not on the schedule or if your teams game gets changed.

    Sports - Saturday, May 25
    High School
    Baseball
    11:00 AM Searsport Dist. at Mattanawcook Acad.

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  • Three unique examples of a bygone era on display

    New means old at Owls Head Transportation Museum

    OWLS HEAD — Stopping in the Owls Head Transportation Museum to see what's new meant that I was looking for something really old — and I wasn't disappointed. This weekend, May 25 and 26, the museum will host its annual Owls Head Spring Antique Auto Show. Gates open to the public at 9 a.m.; exhibitor gates open at 8 a.m. The show will go on rain or shine and a variety of indoor demonstrations and activities are planned in the event of inclement weather.

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  • Financially Speaking

    Casualty losses, insurance and taxes

    Michael Nickerson and his dog Hunter

    Uncle Sam may help cover the loss when you suffer property damages, but you have to follow the rules for a deduction.

    You can deduct the losses resulting from disasters like floods and hurricanes to the extent not reimbursed by insurance. But if you have insurance and don't file a claim, you can't take the deduction. However, in a recent case, when a claim was filed but the insurer denied payment, the court allowed the deduction.

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  • Make [safe]-way for ducklings...

    Memo to duck moms: Stay off the storm drain covers

    CAMDEN — Not to be outdone by the Rockland Wastewater Department, no less than five different state and municipal agencies/departments came to the aid of a family of six ducklings in Camden Friday afternoon after their mother apparently failed to read Penobscot Bay Pilot earlier this month.

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  • Find a ceremony in your community and join in...

    Midcoast: Memorial Day events schedule

    Monday, March 27, marks this year's Memorial Day observance, a national holiday to honor the men and women who have died while serving in the U.S. military.

    Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. Following is a round-up of parades and ceremonies being held Monday.

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  • What's happening at the state

    News from Augusta: Helping endangered turtles, charity fraud, GMOs, BPA, and suicide prevention in schools

    News from the state capitol: What Knox and Waldo county representatives are up to in Augusta.

    New road signs help Maine's endangered turtles

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  • First responders' adventure race begins 9 a.m., Camden Snow Bowl

    Not too wet to Run For Your Life for these guys: Stan Grunder, Matt Heath make practice run in Hosmer Pond

    CAMDEN — A little rain (or a lot of rain) is not going to slow racers down at the Camden Snow Bowl Saturday morning as they barrel off to a sounding wail of horns and sirens at 9 a.m., up and down Ragged Mountain in the first-ever Run For Your Life 5K obstacle course race. Registrations are still under way for the race, until 5 p.m. today. Late registrations will be accepted at 8 a.m. for last-minute inspired stragglers.

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  • Commercial use predates residential use, but town still trying to find peace

    Camden Select Board approves Smokestack entertainment permit over neighbor noise complaints

    CAMDEN — For two years running, condominium residents in the Knox Mill on Washington Street have been complaining about the music noise emanating at night from the Smokestack Grill.

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  • New date for annual 'Grand Prix' of ducks!

    West Bay Rotary's Duck Derby rescheduled for June 1 in Camden

    CAMDEN — Due to heavy rains expected on Friday and Saturday, the West Bay Rotary's annual Duck Derby has been postponed from this Saturday, May 25 to next Saturday, June 1. With Megunticook River already at high levels and more rain on its way, organizers felt like it was too dangerous to try to set the course and run everything as originally planned.

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  • 'It really is a family show this year'

    Warning: The Seuss is Loose

    CAMDEN — Rockport Dance Conservatory will present its sixth spring showcase this evening, May 24 and 25 atthe Camden Opera House. Director Kari Cameron and assistant director Sally Leighton have strived to combine creativity with RDC’s dance styles. According to Cameron and Leighton the have held passionately to their original mission to inspire your imagination and help you to discover the joy of dance. RDC is a registered 501C-3 non-profit organization.

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  • BUSLINE SOFTBALL

    Schooners cruise past Vikings in softball double header

    As the Busline league softball regular season comes to a close the Camden-Rockport softball teams played a double header Thursday in Camden hosting Searsport and winniing both games.

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  • Many to patrol this weekend

    New police academy graduates represent Port Clyde, Waldoboro, Rockland, Rockport, Thomaston, Waldo County

    VASSALBORO — Maine's newest police officers have graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. The 42 new officers from the state, county and municipal ranks have completed 18 weeks of study and training. Among the many topics that the new officers studied were criminal and traffic law, firearms, domestic violence, first aid, emergency vehicle operation, crime scene processing and sexual assault.

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  • 10th Annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative Student Conference

    As state changes school laptop contract, students test HP at annual conference

    ORONO — Students from 48 Maine schools gathered at UMaine recently to test technology at the 10th Annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative Student Conference. The event was the final conference where students had Apple technology exclusively in hand.

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  • AREA SPORTS - UPDATED WITH POSTPONEMENTS

    Pilot Daily Sports Schedule, Friday, May 24

    We will post the postponements if any today in this story so check back before heading out to a game today.

    Here are the scheduled games for the local midcoast spring sports season teams today. Let us know if your team is not on the schedule or if your teams game gets changed.

    Sports - Friday, May 24
    High School
    Baseball

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