CAMDEN — The Camden Planning Board Thursday night unanimously approved an amendment to the previously approved Ragged Mountain Redevelopment Site Plan, most notably as it pertained to proposed…
Commerce
Ragged Mountain Redevelopment update...
Tennesee-based company says mill ceased to turn a profit
BUCKSPORT - Verso Paper Corp. announced Wednesday that it would close its Bucksport mill at the end of the year, laying off more than 500 workers.
Verso Chief Executive Officer Dave…
Aviation scene commissioned for hangar at Belfast Airport
BELFAST - It's hard to imagine David Hurley being intimidated by a request to paint a mural.
In downtown Belfast, his depictions of cats poised in windowsills and…
Camden Snow Bowl...
CAMDEN — The new trails at the Camden Snow Bowl are really taking shape as the nights get colder, which is good because skiers and snowboarders are already beginning to think about winter…
ROCKLAND — There are now over 125 items, valued at more than $40,000, for the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce online and live auctions. Up for bid are products, getaways, and services…
Pride Sports would add toy to roster of golf tees and cigar tips
BURNHAM - Inside Pride Sports manufacturing plant, thousands of wooden dowels rolled off an internal assembly line. Dowels are the basic unit of Pride Sports’ wood products and most were milled…
ROCKPORT — Saturday morning, Rockport Village was the site of an elaborate wedding ceremony that is well-known and common in many places around the world, but not one often seen in Maine.
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This week there were few economic releases, but the evidence still led to the conclusion that the recovery in the U.S. was on solid ground; but, elsewhere the recovery remained less firm. The…
The Camden Select Board held a regular meeting Sept. 9 and following 45 minutes of public and board discussion on the tannery agenda item, a 4 to 1 vote determined language of a non-binding Nov. 4…
What is it going to be?
BELFAST - What’s being built next to Dunkin Donuts on Starrett Drive?
It’s sort of a trick question.
Over the past…
CAMDEN — Work began this week to further stabilize and prepare the Knox Mill smokestack for the installation of cellular telephone equipment.
Tuesday morning, a crew from Gibraltar Chimney…
Although the U.S. Employment Report was disappointing, other U.S. releases affirmed that the U.S. recovery was well intact. Elsewhere, the ECB's surprise interest rate deduction showed the concern…
Here we go again...
On the heels of reports that Home Depot experienced a data breach involving its credit/debit care system prompted the Maine’s Department of Professional and…
Water Testing Lab remains open
ROCKPORT — Maine Water announced that its…
Find it in your mailbox, local coffee shop, area stores, e-Edition
Penobscot Bay Pilot launched PenBayPilot.com on Sept. 10, 2012, opening our virtual doors to business and creating the region’s next-wave, free community Internet site — an online hub where we…
November nonbinding referendum
CAMDEN — While it wasn’t official, all five heads of the Camden Select Board were nodding in agreement Tuesday night to place a nonbinding referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot, and see — in the words…
‘Pizza! Pizza!’ chain sees market, seeks operator
DETROIT, Mich. — Little Caesars, the restaurant chain that turned a pint-sized plutocrat repeating the word “pizza” into one of the more memorable ad campaigns of the 1980s, is looking to…
CAMDEN — Camden Town Manager Pat Finnigan and Select Board Chairman Martin Cates announced in an email Tuesday afternoon that North East Mobile Health Services has decided to stop negotiations…
Community members urged to attend, write letters, let opinions be known
CAMDEN – Tuesday night the Camden Select Board will consider authorizing the town manager to enter into a purchase and sale agreement with North East Mobile Health Services, which has expressed an…
ROCKLAND — On Wednesday and Friday of this week, Rockland will be hosting the annual retreat for all of Maine's Main Street program managers. The three-day gathering will put these folks in…
Check credit, debit cards
The Bureau of Financial Institutions and Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection at the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation outlined the…
Penobscot Bay Region Chamber of Commerce
ROCKLAND -- The PBRCC Auction being…
WEST ROCKPORT — Mainers are used to losing power for a few hours, and when it happens in the middle of the night, we often don’t realize it in the summer unless the window fan goes silent or we…
New owners aim to catch Canadian harvest
BELFAST - Blueberry juice.
On Tuesday, telltale beads of the stuff trickled from under a garage door into the parking lot next to the Coastal Farms and Foods building on Route 1. Nearer to…
Former presidential special assistant calls on King to be voice of national connectivity improvement
ROCKPORT — Likening Internet connectivity to public utilities, which U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) Monday afternoon called "necessary components for economies and countries to flourish," he…
ROCKPORT — Need your oil changed? Why not support Kno-Wal-Lin's auxiliary at the same time?
During the month of August, Rockport Automotive will donate $5 to the Kno-Wal-Lin Auxiliary for…
ROCKLAND — The fourth annual Alan Baudanza Memorial Golf Tournament takes place Saturday, Aug. 23 at the Rockland Golf Club. Sponsors, donations, and participants are encouraged to honor Baudanza’…
ROCKLAND — Visit the site of a Net Zero Timber Frame Home at 10 Dodge Mountain Rd. August 8 through 10. The building was designed by Kaplan Thompson Architects of Portland, built by Black Bros.…
ELLSWORTH—The Knox County Committee of the Maine Community Foundation recently awarded $33,…
Work begins on 170-foot chimney in September
CAMDEN — It’s all fine and good to own a 170-foot smokestack that is a community landmark, but when its age begins to show and edges fray, the question is posed: Should it come down?
Matt…
LINCOLNVILLE — By the end of July, the Lincolnville Community Library will be powered by the sun.
With the help of grant funding from Efficiency Maine, the library roof will soon be covered…
A quick nonscientific survey of trends
CAMDEN – It is midsummer in Maine, and that means downtown shops are filled. But what are people buying this year? We got curious and…
Merrimack Mortgage Company, Inc has opened an office in Camden. This is Merrimack Mortgage Company's fourth branch in Maine; current branches include Portland, Augusta, and Bangor. Joining the…
Proprietors determined to reopen damaged Belfast business
BELFAST - Kyle and Helen Skinner had already planned two weekends of barbecues at Goose River Grocery in August when a fire forced them to close the store earlier this month. On Friday, Kyle…
Camden Select Board news...
CAMDEN — Following Camden Town Manager Patricia Finnigan's update on the Ragged Mountain Redevelopment project, the Camden Select Board approved contracting with Ledgewood Construction to perform…
Interview: Village of Spaces’ Amy Moon and Dan Beckman
BELFAST - Dan Beckman and Amy Moon looked at some 70 homes before settling on a fixer-upper on Mill Lane in 2006. Perched above a bend in the road, the old…
Camden Select Board member airs strong signage limitation opinion
CAMDEN — Planning Board Chairman Lowrie Sargent Tuesday night gave a 26-second "report" of the Planning Board's four-hour public hearing July 2 that resulted in a vote to endorse sending a…
Camden Select Board news...
CAMDEN — Responding to neighbor complaints about persistent late-night raucous noise emanating from the open deck of Cuzzy's bar and restaurant on Bay View Street, the Camden Select Board Tuesday…
Two Bridges Regional Jail
Cleanup is wrapping up and repairs should be getting under way soon at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset, scene of a June 5 fire that damaged a wood shop.
The shutdown in production has…
Watercooler
Camden National Bank honors employees
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From Fear to Success: A practical public-speaking guide
Dizzy head. Pounding heart. Shaking limbs. Sweating body. Shallow breathing. Queasy stomach. These symptoms hold people back from what they really want — SUCCESS. Public speakers of all levels…
Economic releases showed continued strength in the U.S. recovery, but softness in Europe. Alcoa reported better than expected earnings and that news leading-the-earnings-season gave Alcoa's stock…
ROCKLAND - “It’s kind of a mess back here right now,” says Jennifer Rockwell, surveying the piles of pallets behind 435 Main Street.
Although the…
From Fear to Success: A practical public-speaking guide
Dizzy head. Pounding heart. Shaking limbs. Sweating body. Shallow breathing. Queasy stomach. These symptoms hold people back from what they really want — SUCCESS. Public speakers of all levels…
Next stop, Camden Select Board
CAMDEN — Voting 4 to 1, the Camden Planning Board reversed an earlier decision made last May and is now sending a proposed zoning amendment to Camden leaders for consideration. The vote came on…
Rockland was one of 16 communities selected for the Parade magazine “Where’s America’s Best Main Street” tournament. The contest was…
Video: Wiscasset Municipal Airport
When Ervin Deck flies into Wiscasset Municipal Airport, it’s a different experience for him than when the retired Naval air traffic controller lands at other airports along Maine’s coast.
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DEP likely to issue violation, require restoration plan
CAMDEN — To all of those who gathered on the slopes of Ragged Mountain overlooking Hosmer Pond Monday afternoon, it was clear that something had gone awry. The mountain face had more skidder paths…
July 2 meeting
CAMDEN — Wednesday evening will be round two of Camden Planning Board’s consideration of a zoning amendment that could allow some bed and breakfast owners to pursue municipal approval for serving…
An eye-catching new business with a view
BELFAST - For several years, a “for sale” sign by a sloping field on Route 3 called attention to the “million dollar view” across Penobscot Bay.
Today the sign is gone and the property has…
