The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) announces the hiring of three community partners to its community impact team. Community partners support nonprofit organizations…
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Join the Maine Department of Labor in May for no-cost trainings to fulfill workplace safety and labor law requirements.
Upcoming classes:
Lifting &…
ROCKPORT — VIP Tires and Service, represented by Maine Central Properties, LLC, of Auburn, is asking the Rockport Planning Board…
In response to the growing trend of teaching financial literacy to youth, Maine State Credit Union has launched a new product, Marty the Mountain. This product is designed…
The Maine Department of Labor issued its March 2024 report, noting little change in labor market conditions in March. Nonfarm jobs were…
FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance Team will be at Knox County EMA, April 19- 20, and 22-23
Mainers who live in Cumberland, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, Washington or York…
ROCKLAND — One of the first supporters of Trekkers’ recently announced Capital Campaign, “The Road Ahead: Campaign for Trekkers Future”, was First National Bank. First National Bank will sponsor…
THOMASTON — Thomaston's annual Spring Block Party is back for a second year, and vendor applications are now open for the Maker's Market and the Young Entrepreneurs Alley.
The Maker's…
first woman to lead the U.S. military’s global medical examiner service
Governor Janet Mills has appointed retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Alice Briones, DO, to serve as Maine’s Chief Medical Examiner.
A native of Hampden, Dr. Briones returns to Maine after a…
For the past eight years, Amie Hutchison has served as the executive director of Trekkers. Since her arrival in 2016, Hutchison has overseen the program through fundraising and programmatic…
NORTHEAST HARBOR — Maine Seacoast Mission and MCD Global Health (MCD) received a $90,000 grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration to help create a healthcare bridge for island…
Sexual Assault Awareness Month with Pen Bay Medical Center, Waldo County General Hospital, and LincolnHealth
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — If you or someone you care about is sexually assaulted or is experiencing domestic violence, do you know what options are available? When the unthinkable happens, a special…
two new Lake Patrols also appointed
The Megunticook Watershed Association has appointed Abby Kidder as their new Executive Director. The local nonprofit has been working to protect, preserve, and promote the resiliency of the…
ROCKLAND — The City of Rockland and the Rockland Police Department have received an award from the Office of Justice Programs’ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the “…
Citing its comprehensive benefits package, continuing education and training opportunities as well as its investment in community well-being, Becker’s Healthcare, on Wednesday, April 9, 2024,…
Founded in 1999, Knox Clinic has been dedicated to providing quality healthcare services to the community for a quarter-century. As the organization reflects on the impact of its work over the…
ROCKPORT — In 2021, Seacoast Security, Inc. of Rockport, launched a scholarship program to help fund further education in the skilled trades. The program offers two, $1,000 scholarships to…
SPRUCE HEAD — After an extensive search and rigorous interview process, The Craignair Inn has hired St. George resident Jillian Bedell as their new Director of Marketing. Bedell is a writer and…
THOMASTON — Thomaston Ambulance Department recently received a $37,988 grant from Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation® that ensures that first responders have the necessary equipment to keep…
Maine Department of Labor, SafetyWorks! Training Institute is offering a free Temperature Extremes Training with the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute.
This is a four-and-a-half-…
ROCKLAND — Rockland can choose to keep its housing ordinances unchanged. However, as City Planner Rhett Lamb told a brand new Planning Board, Feb. 6, 2024: “To some degree, the LD2003 requirements…
BELFAST — Waldo County Dental Care (WCDC) has received a $19,685.12 grant from the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation. The Northeast Delta Dental Foundation provides funding to organizations whose…
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — Six care team members from Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital were recently honored with employee awards during ceremonies held on the hospital…
Camden National Bank has appointed Andrew Forbes as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). In this role, Forbes will lead critical human resources functions, including enabling and cultivating a…
MIDCOAST MAINE — Knox County Homeless Coalition (KCHC) has appointed Molly Feeney as Executive Director, effective immediately. Feeney, who has been serving as Interim Executive Director since…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in partnership with Volunteer Maine, launched a new online training for individuals getting started in a volunteer management role. Three self-paced…
Brian Pierce, M.D., has announced that Adda Winkes, M.D., will be joining Megunticook Medicine, a direct primary care practice in Rockport.
Winkes graduated from the…
ROCKLAND — The third of its kind in Maine, following first Stockholm, Maine, then Lewiston and Portland, and the first in the Midcoast, a proposed alternative playground for Rockland has been…
First National Bank has donated $5,000 to Finding Our Voices, helping the grassroots nonprofit move forward two events that focus on breaking the silence of domestic abuse across Maine.
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THOMASTON — Pope Memorial Humane Society (PMHS) has received a $75,000 matching gift from Martine Richard LaBrie and Dr. Henry LaBrie of Friendship. This opportunity allows community members to…
ROCKLAND — Recently, Trekkers unveiled a public launch of a capital campaign, The Road Ahead Campaign for Trekkers’ Future. The campaign…
calls upon the community to unite, form teams, and conceive entrepreneurial strategies that elevate mental wellness in Knox County youth
ROCKPORT — In a collaboration, Pen Bay Medical Center joins forces with the Roux Institute at Northeastern University for the upcoming Start Summit: Teen Mental Wellness.
Scheduled for…
Opinionated at any Speed . . . Silvio Calabi
The Kona is Hyundai’s not-quite-entry-level SUV; with a listed starting price of $25,585 (including freight & handling), it edges out the little Venue by more than…
CAMDEN — The process to craft short-term rental regulations for Camden has been long, focused, and filled with debate; but now, the town…
recognize someone who has contributed to the community
New Hope Midcoast announces a matching challenge opportunity that doubles donor impact and provides a chance to recognize someone who has contributed to the community in meaningful and impactful…
BATH — “Less of a museum, and more of a living history and culture center,” is the way Matt Blazek, newly hired Educational Manager of Maine’s First Ship describes his new employer. Blazek was…
ROCKLAND — The AIO Food & Energy Assistance Board of Directors has named Alan Kearl as the new Executive Director of the nonprofit organization that provides food and heating assistance for…
ST GEORGE — At a groundbreaking ceremony in St. George, March 28, a local business CEO told a fourth grader, who would be visiting Steel-Pro later that day with his class, to pick up a job…
The Waldo County Extension Association (WCEA) has exceeded the $6,000 fundraising goal required to earn a $6,000 matching gift from the Maine 4-H Foundation. These funds are the beginning of a…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
Palisade: a fence of wooden stakes or iron railings fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure or defense (Oxford Languages); alternatively, an upscale three-row “family-…
BELFAST —The Penobscot Community Health Center is receiving $1,322,000 from the federal government to help construct a public health dental practice, co-located with the…
CAMDEN — Becca Gildred has joined the United Midcoast Charities team as the new executive director, effective April 1.
According to UMC, in a news release, Gildred brings a wealth of…
Maine Dept. of Labor announces its free SafetyWorks training sessions for April 2024.
Upcoming classes:
NFPA #1 Fire Code -
April 2…
$250,000 to Jumpstart Rebuilding of Maine’s Working Waterfront
Island Institute, a community development nonprofit serving Maine’s island and coastal communities, announced today that it has completed Business Resilience Storm Response Grants, totaling $250,…
ROCKLAND — A city-wide parking ban in Rockland, on Saturday, March 23, initially prescribed for hours between 1 a.m. and 9 a.m. has been extended until 11 p.m.
Rockland officials announced…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Corrections announced today that Long Creek Youth Development Center Superintendent Lynne Allen is stepping down today from her position at Long Creek for…
Mary Lou Smith, 84-year-old survivor of domestic abuse, has been named a Top Business Leader of the Year by MaineBiz for her volunteer work with Finding Our Voices.
Smith, a retired…
rerouting ambulances, relocating entrances during construction
ROCKPORT — Construction work that will nearly double the size of the Emergency Department (ED) at Pen Bay Medical Center will enter its final phase on Monday, March 25. The project, which will add…
BELFAST — Susan Therio has completed her Adolescent Montessori Teacher Preparation and received her Montessori Secondary I-II Credential from the Cincinnati Montessori Secondary Teacher Education…
ROCKLAND — A proposed ice cream snack shack in Rockland aims to trial a new way of doing business – drawing a crowd where vehicles can’t go.
From an old garden shed situated next to a…
