WALDO COUNTY — Nearly $90,000 in Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in…
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KNOX COUNTY — More than $62,000 in Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Knox County in 2023. The nine…
“What is one idea you hope people who work with youth bring forward?”
ROCKLAND — This summer, Trekkers Training Institute (TTI) offered a 4-part training series on Youth Engagement. The sessions were open to the public and offered on a sliding scale. With the…
More Than $22,000 to Northern New England Nonprofit Organizations
ROCKLAND — Bar Harbor Bank & Trust employees recently presented more than $22,000 in donations collected through the Bank’s employee-driven charitable giving program, Casual for a Cause, to…
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital welcome Tyson Thornton, PharmD, BCPS, MBA-H, FACHE, as their new vice president of operations. Thornton joined the…
OWLS HEAD — On Thursday, Aug. 10, volunteers and friends of the Owls Head Transportation Museum were treated to the first look at a brand new, 20,000 sq ft workshop space on the museum's campus.…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
How do I love thee, new-for-2024-and-available-only-in-North-America Acura Integra Type S? Let me count the ways . . .
Engineering: Up…
BLUE HILL — Wednesday, August 23, 2023, Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital will open its doors to a brand-new facility. On move day, patients will be safely transported…
the “virtual” class
ROCKLAND — Partnering with the Sail, Power & Steam Museum, the Rockland Yacht Club Scholarship Regatta will be held Saturday, Aug. 19 with boats from around the Midcoast. New this year is the…
targeted resources, services, and physical space to support remote and hybrid workers, as well as business owners and entrepreneurs
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library has been awarded funding from The Maine State Library and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development as part of the more than $1.7 million in…
BELFAST — The City of Belfast has been awarded an $10,000 2023 Project Canopy Assistance Planting & Maintenance Grant through the U.S.D.A Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program…
ROCKPORT — The Pen Bay Stroke Program has been recognized nationally with the 2023 Get With the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award and the Target Stroke Elite Honor Roll Performance…
Finding Our Voices has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Maine Community Foundation. The money is “to help bridge the gaps in support for Maine’s women domestic violence survivors," according…
planning a special Welcome Weekend
ROCKLAND — Adas Yoshuron Synagogue welcomes Rabbi Lorin Troderman as its new spiritual leader. Rabbi Troderman joins Adas Yoshuron as the fourth rabbi in the synagogue’s recent history. The 111-…
Walk-in Clinic
Pen Bay Medical Center has sold the Knox Center and the Bok Building in Rockland to Knox Center LLC, a Rockland-based company.
Knox Center…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
For 2024, General Motors wiped the slate clean of the previous Trax, which largely labored in obscurity from 2013 to 2022, and started over again. Much more successfully,…
The John T. Gorman Foundation has awarded 83 grants totaling $1.5 million to provide food, shelter, health care, and other essential services to Mainers in need through its 2023 Direct…
view portions of knox county by rail this weekend
ROCKLAND – Midcoast Railservice is beginning rail excursions between Rockland and Brunswick with short debut trips during this week’s Maine Lobster Festival.
The company, operating under…
Wiscasset selectmen
Passenger rail is returning to Wiscasset with weekend trips planned soon, a Damariscotta man told Wiscasset selectmen Aug. 1. The “Coastliner” Brunswick-Rockland rail line is an “informed…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
The ever-expanding range of electrified vehicles from Volvo presently includes three battery-only SUVs, two hybrid gas-electric SUVs, two hybrid sedans and one hybrid…
ROCKLAND — The disruption of electrical power in Rockland, Thomaston, South Thomaston and a portion of Rockport is due to Central Maine Power work at the Park Street substation in Rockport.
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new nonprofit is closer to opening its network of temporary community shelters for families facing homelessness
BELFAST — Family Promise of MidCoast Maine, a new startup based in Waldo County and serving families experiencing or at risk of homelessness, announced on July 27, the generous support and…
AUGUSTA — Survivors with Finding Our Voices gathered with Governor Janet T. Mills at the State House on July 25, 2023 for the ceremonial signing of a law bringing safety to domestic abuse…
CAMDEN — Members of the Camden Rotary Club are selling tickets for their annual Super Raffle to raise funds for grants to nonprofit community service organizations in Knox County and Lincolnville…
BELFAST — City of Belfast nomination papers are available from July 27 through September 7, 2023 for the following open seats:
1-Mayor…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
It’s almost a law of physics that smaller cars should be fun-ner to drive. Or why bother? As the smallest of the Mazda Motor Corporation’s three more-upscale crossover…
Maine Department of Labor lists its upcoming August no-cost safety trainings.
Upcoming classes:
…MATINICUS — Harbor Road will be closed Tuesday, July 25, from 3 to 5 p.m., for road maintenance from the Brodis’ house to Craig Macleods property.
disability, ableism, and inclusion
ROCKLAND — Youth mentoring organization Trekkers is now certified to run mentoring programs, activities, and events that are inclusive to youth, volunteers, and staff with disabilities, after a…
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center welcomes Elisabeth Frederick, CNM, to the Pen Bay Women’s Health team.
As a certified nurse midwife, Frederick provides care before, during and after…
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center welcomes Rachel Picone, DNP, FNP-C, WHNP-BC, AAHIVS, to the Pen Bay Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases team. Picone is accepting new primary care patients…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
If you’re confused about why Mazda offers two compact crossover SUVs with two rows of seats, the CX-5 and the CX-50, you’re not alone. The extra zero in the badge seems to…
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital welcome Salma Batool-Anwar, MD, to their Hospitalist Services teams.
As part of the Hospitalist Services team, Dr. Batool…
THOMASTON — “Celebrated self-taught artist James Zoller has once again demonstrated his generous spirit by donating the proceeds from his recent exhibit, "Life in Color," at the Craignair Gallery…
DAMARISCOTTA — Coastal Kids Preschool, in Damariscotta, announces that long-time CKP teacher Sara Larson has become the school’s special education coordinator.
Larson has worked at Coastal…
Rockland Rotary president Tena Wallace presented Walker C. Hutchins of Rockland with Rockland Rotary’s 2023 Community Person of the Year Award at the annual Change of Command Banquet on June 29.…
Dr. David Pier presents a generous check to Rockland Rotary President Tena Wallace in the amount of $1,600 from Mount Pleasant Dental Care for Rockland Rotary’s Inclusive Playground Project.
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Rockland Rotary president Tena Wallace presented Ferolyn Curtis with the Rotarian of the Year Award at the annual Change of Command Banquet, June 29.
The ‘Rotarian of the Year’ award is …
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
Two things stand out on this new (2024 model year) Impreza trim level: the RS badges and the big touchscreen. The badges lead to disappointment; the screen is a welcome…
ROCKLAND — As attendees dedicated 17 new tiles in a ceremony, July 9, 2023, organizers of the Mid Coast Maine Area Veterans Memorial announced that ideas are being discussed for an additional…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
“Moderation” and “balance” are not terms normally applied to Detroit muscle cars, but—after a mere 50 years or so—Dodge has achieved a form of motoring Zen here. Not a…
ROCKAND – An artist is proposing to raze a Rockland structure in favor of a Live+Work model of affordable housing.
Sally Levi and Dominic Turgeon, of Badhus LLC, wish to tear down 25 Oak…
ST. GEORGE — Seal Harbor Road, also known as Route 73, will be closed to through traffic beginning Monday, July 10, due to the replacement of the Jones Brook culvert.
The road closure will…
“the first hospital in Maine to be recognized at the highest level”
PORTLAND — Maine Emergency Medical System for Children (Maine EMS-C) is recognizing Maine Medical Center (MMC) as the first hospital in Maine to achieve the “Maine Always Ready for Children”…
“That little Mustang out there is an animal,” said Thomaston Police Chief Tim Hoppe.
A year old, and ripened with 14,000 miles of maturity as of Jan. 30, Thomaston PD’s little electric car…
OHTM’s executive director passed Lake Michigan
Several years ago, Owls Head Transportation Museum’s new executive director, John Bottero, set a bucket list goal to cycle across America from Portland to Portland to see the vast country under…
UNION — Paving will begin Thursday, June 29 and Friday, June 30 for Marrs Hill Road, Sunk Haze, and Brooks Road, in Union.
“Exact timing is up to the contractor, but there will be some…
Maine Department of Labor announces its July 2023 schedule for no-cost safety trainings.
Upcoming classes:
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repairing water infrastructure damage
WASHINGTON — Knox and Waldo counties are among six Maine counties where grants are now available to help rural and Tribal communities repair water infrastructure damaged by presidentially-declared…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
First, a note: After the Mercedes-Benz EQS 580, I promised a review…
