ROCKPORT – On Saturday, January 25, Maine Coast Heritage Trust invites all ages to join steward and naturalist Kirk Gentalen for a lively morning outdoors from 9:30 a.m. to noon and discover some of the wildlife stories that Erickson Fields Preserve in Rockport has to offer.  

Fresh snow captures animal tracks, trails, and tunnels providing lessons untaught in any other season. With its varied habitat of woods and field, Erickson Fields Preserve in Rockport offers hundreds of clues for the…

Belfast Marine Institute students in Genna Black and Chip Lagerbom's Marine Studies class at Belfast Area High School recently navigated their way around Penobscot Bay using nautical charts and navigation tools. 

Their task was to develop an accurate course taking their vessel to a series of locations around the bay, then challenged with tide, current, weather and wind considerations to factor into their calculations. 

BELFAST — Come Boating! Belfast’s Community Boating Organization and the Belfast Free Library are teaming up once again to offer the Winter Adventure Series. This year the series of four programs about adventures on the waters will begin in December 2024. All of the programs will be offered in person in the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free Library with a Zoom option.

106.9 FRANK FM, WBQX will broadcast local high school basketball for a 15th straight year beginning Friday, December 6, when the defending Southern Maine Class B Champion Oceanside Mariners host the Cony Rams in a boys matchup in Rockland.

Veteran broadcaster Don Shields will again lead the coverage and will be joined by Terry Spear and Chris Seavey for the 35-game regular season schedule that includes calling games from Oceanside, Medomak Valley, Camden Hills, Lincoln Academy, and Boothbay High Schools…

ROCKPORT — Get ready to run, walk, or waddle at the Penobscot Bay YMCA’s annual Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk on Friday, Nov. 29, at 8:30 a.m., in Rockport. This family-friendly event welcomes participants of all ages and paces to a chipped race the day after Thanksgiving (costumes are highly encouraged).

New this year is a free Tot Trot, at 7:45 a.m., for kids 5 and under, where little ones can dash to the finish line for their own mini-race experience…

Camden Hills Regional High School Mountain bike team has won the Eastern Division of the Northern New England Mountain Bike Series. And last weekend, they traveled to Woodstock, Vermont, for the New England Championships, finishing seventh amongst 25 regional teams.

Under the lights at Don Palmer Field Friday, Nov. 8, the Camden Hills Windjammers faced the Mt. Ararat Eagles in one of two eight-man football semifinal games.

Camden had beaten Ararat earlier in the regular season, needing a 24-point comeback to win by a final score of 36-30.

But, Mt. Ararat Eagles would dominate Camden Hills and not allow a comeback this time, winning by a score of 48-12.

was without starting QB Hollis Schwalm for the game, with the backup completing…

On Friday, Nov. 8, the Camden Hills Regional High School Football Team with square off with Mt. Ararat, the team from Topsham.

Camden Hill's eight-man football team will be a rematch of Camden's comeback victory earlier this year (36-30).

The winner of this game will move on to the eight-man championship against the winner of the Greeley vs. Lake Region game.

Camden has already played both of those teams, beating Greely 14-6 at the start of the season and…

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ROCKPORT — Have your kids outgrown their winter gear? Do you have gear that is no longer working for you or your family?

The annual Camden Hills Regional High School Ski Team Ski Sale will be held Saturday, Nov. 9, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., at Camden Hills Regional High School. Sidecountry Sports and other vendors will be selling new and used gear. 

Vicki Murray, owner of LAUGH Loud Smile Big in Camden, raised $25,000 at her first annual golf tournament and auction, Sweet Shots for Diabetes.

ROCKPORT - At a home Class A semifinal game Oct. 31, Camden Hills Regional High School Girls Varsity Soccer Team faced a familiar foe(and not just because it's another mountain team!) playing against Mt. Ararat, whom Camden beat in one of their closest matches of the season, 3-0, in September. 

Coming on the heels of Camden’s dominant win over Mt. Blue Oct. 29, CHILLS head coach Meredith Messer said the team played, "very well."

Lighthouses may be beacons of light and hope for some; for others, they are haunted places. With their rugged seaside locations, connection to shipwrecks, and other maritime accidents during storms, not to mention the association of loneliness and madness that some lighthouse keepers experienced, it's only fitting that lighthouses are the subject of ghostly tales.

Here are three local Midcoast lighthouses which have had its share of spooky sightings.

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There was a lot of back and forth action at the start of the game Oct. 29 between Medomak Valley and Gardiner high school girls varsity soccer teams, and some hard play by both ends, reported Assistant Varsity MVHS Girls Soccer Coach Andrea Williamson.

ROCKPORT — At a home game Oct. 29, the Camden Hills varsity girls soccer team took a post-season playoff win against Mt. Blue High School, with a final score of 8-0 (mercy rule).

This was the first game of the Class A quarterfinals.

Scoring got started in the first three minutes of the game, thanks to No. 8 Molly Williams, a  freshman on the team. Williams then went on to score a hat-trick in Camden’s victory of Mt. Blue.

BELFAST —

The Medomak Valley Golf team and Coach Kevin Richardson received high honors from their peers when they won the 2024 Class B South Good Sportsmanship Award for the second consecutive season.

They were presented their award Saturday, Oct. 12, at the State Championship at Natanis in Vassalboro.

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