AUGUSTA—More than 100 companies from all over Maine are converging in Augusta, looking to employ veterans and non-veterans during a hiring fair as part of the the kick-off event for the 2016 Maine…
Commerce
The Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber's Annual Year in Review Gala will be held Friday, November 18, at the Samoset Resort. The chamber has…
DAMARISCOTTA – First National Bank announced the winners of its ninth annual Customer Photo Calendar Contest. Fourteen color photographs were chosen from more than 150 entries, and each winning…
CASTINE — Camden National Bank will donate a total of $10,000 over the next two years to Maine Maritime Academy to help…
The MCH Kitchen Appeal Committee celebrated breaking ground for the kitchen expansion at the Methodist Conference Home…
LifeFlight’s fourth annual Islesboro Crossing fundraiser
Swimmers will be out en mass early in the morning, Aug. 20, for the fourth annual Islesboro Crossing, a fundraiser for LifeFlight of Maine. The Crossing is a major fundraiser for the nonprofit,…
Oysters have become one of the most coveted of Maine seafoods.
A true connoisseur of oysters claims he or she can discern intimate…
ROCKLAND — Members of the Rockland Fire Department and city officials, including Mayor Louise MacLellan-Ruf, gathered on the apron of the firehouse on the morning of July 20 to welcome the newest…
ROCKPORT - Former attorney Jason Throne of Rockport, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced July 13 to 71 months in prison to one count of mail fraud, filed Notice of Appeal of his conviction and…
19th shack opens in the old Cod End space on Miller’s Wharf
TENANTS HARBOR — Normally the opening of a rustic lobster shack doesn't warrant the same kind of buzz as a shiny new Midcoast restaurant, but Luke's at Tenants Harbor, which opened for its first…
Wiscasset Planning Board
It's blue skies ahead for Coastal Enterprises' (CEI) next move to tap the sun for energy at Deer Ridge Apartments. A project to add more solar trackers met with no resistance, passing unanimously…
The Maine Department of Transportationwas notified that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $7,719,173 in grant funding to the Maine Intermodal Port Productivity Project for…
Maine Harvest Bucks
Belfast Coop has launched an incentive program that will help low-income shoppers purchase more local food with federal food benefits. With…
Rockland Main Street, Inc.,has been designated as an accredited Main Street Americ program for meeting performance standards set…
CASTINE —The Hagerty Education Program at America’s Car Museum has awarded a second grant of $5,000 in funding to Maine Maritime Academy…
BELFAST — Before the Belfast Co-op made plans to celebrate its 40th anniversary this week, they turned to another Belfast business, Marshall Wharf Brewing Co., to collaborate on a commemorative…
ROCKPORT — Custom wooden boat builder and designer Rockport Marine of Rockport, has acquired David Jones Yacht Brokerage. This acquisition…
Rosalie’s Joy open Saturdays only
CAMDEN — Sometimes you need to get away to reinvent your life. That’s what one woman did after moving from Islesboro to Camden last year. Megan Murphy, a baker, decided to turn her rickety 1940s…
Round the Mountain campaign reaches new heights
ROCKPORT — For more than a decade, Maine Water Company and Coastal Mountains Land Trust have been talking about establishing protection for the 1,405 acres of corporate-owned land in West Rockport…
Hope to vote Monday at annual town meeting
LINCOLNVILLE —Contrary to what happened in Camden and Rockport earlier this week at their respective town meetings, voters in Lincolnville June 16 overwhelmingly approved entering into a 20-year…
2016 Camden Town Meeting...
CAMDEN — The Camden Opera House was nearly filled Wednesday night, June 15, for the annual Camden Town Meeting, and although there was some back and forth about the…
CAMDEN — More than 170 Camden National Bank employees joined efforts to support Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine at Bowl For Kids'…
2016 Camden Town Meeting...
CAMDEN - Following some passionate discussion on both sides of the much talked-about and publicly debated $297,303 Snow Bowl deficit, the full house of Camden voters at the Opera House voted in…
The First National Bank branch Rockland location at 132 Park Street will be closed on Saturday,…
THOMASTON — On June 7, more 80 fishermen, friends, and partners gathered at the Slipway in Thomaston for a special occasion that has been 10 years in the making. The…
Given the disgusting news from Turner about the cruel and inhumane treatment of egg-laying hens at New England’s largest egg producer, we want to know: Where do you get your eggs?
Do you…
There's a red barn just off Route 1 in Newcastle that will soon be welcoming visitors to come in and see how liquor is made. On July 1…
There's a new dog in town, The Salty Dog.
Located at 123 Elm St in Camden, The Salty Dog is a full-service pet grooming salon. The Salty Dog is family owned and…
Rockland Main Street, Inc., announced that applications for street vendors are available for the annual Summer Solstice Celebration. …
Chef Sam Richman switches up from a Mexican menu to ‘high-brow/low-brow New England Americana’ cuisine
ROCKLAND — Sam Richman, the former chef of Salt Water Farm, decided on an innovative route when the Rockport restaurant closed unexpectedly in 2015. He began operating a series of pop-up Mexican…
For the sixth consecutive year, the MidCoast Interact Club was awarded the Rotary International Presidential Citation for making a positive…
CAMDEN — A construction project at the corner of Park and Mechanic streets in Camden has prompted the closing of Mechanic Street for the day Wednesday, June. 1
Camden Police Chief Randy…
Vessels make weekly ports of call to Maine harbors
The regular summer stops by American Cruise Lines in Camden and Rockport begin June 1 with the arrival of the Independence in Camden Harbor. The vessel is 215 in length and moors in the…
‘It’s like a high school football team that has never won a game in five years’
ROCKPORT — As Senator Susan Collins held forth on an amendment during an intelligence committee meeting, a senator from New Mexico quietly asked Senator Angus King (I-Maine), “Is there something…
BELFAST — The City of Belfast learned that it was recently selected to receive a $400,000 Brownfields Assessment grant…
Downtown favorite reopens with basically same menu
CAMDEN — Twelve Mechanic Street didn’t stay idle for long. And it fulfills that downtown Camden need for a quick slice of pizza. Camden House of Pizza held its grand opening, Saturday, May 14,…
‘Just like the last 30 years’
CAMDEN — Steve Laite is back doing auto repair, tightening valves, replacing brake pads, and stretching up under cars on the lift at Camden Exxon, all after a seven-month hiatus.
“We are…
CAMDEN — Three at Allen Insurance and Financial receive State insurance license.
Allen Insurance and Financial is pleased to…
What Do you Want to Do with the Tannery Space?
CAMDEN — It’s been over a year since the Camden Select Board appointed the 14-member Tannery Work Group, and there have not been as many meetings as some would have hoped, but finally the group…
Matching small-scale individual needs with community investors
ROCKLAND — What if a new mattress were all that was needed for an individual to move forward in life? How about an outfit for a job interview or the money to pay the auto repair bill?
A…
Camden Resident gets new appointment from First National Bank
ROCKLAND — Tony C. McKim, President and Chief Executive Officer of First National Bank and its parent company, The First Bancorp, has…
Maine bank maintains customer satisfaction as its top priority
BANGOR — Bangor Savings Bank has received the highest score among qualifying retail banks in the New England region in the J.D. Power 2016…
Unique and beautiful is the standard for this boutique hotel
ROCKLAND — The new kid on the block in Rockland is 250 Main Hotel. After a lengthy construction period, the boutique hotel, built by Lyman Morse, has opened with five floors of guest rooms,…
11.3-mile stretch in Camden, Hope and Appleton...
APPLETON-HOPE-CAMDEN — A Maine Department of Transportation tree crew is nearing the final leg of an 11.3-mile stretch of work on Route 105, which is the precursor to fall road paving between…
After being closed for around 15 years, the Carriage House Restaurant in East Boothbay will open its doors again, with a new owner and fresh ideas.
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Unless you have been to Slick's in Boothbay Harbor, and/or know the owners, you might do a double take when…
A Foucault Pendulum to be installed in the steeple
ROCKLAND — The Sail Power & Steam Museum just added a large (20 foot) steeple to the Museum for the installation of a Foucault Pendulum…
ROCKLAND — The following deed transfers were recorded from April 4-8 at the Knox County Registry of Deeds.
Camden
Stuart W. Carle Est. to Carle Farm LLC.
Tannery…
on a roll...
What should we call food truck connoisseurs—truckies? Well, truckies will be interested to know one Belfast food truck is pulling up their wheels and handing them over to someone else, while…
Food Shack is on the Rockland/Thomaston Town Line
ROCKLAND/THOMASTON — The blue shack on the side of the road catches your attention as you head up Route 1 towards Thomaston, just before you get to Walmart. It’s The Zack Shack. Fast food is an…
