LINCOLNVILLE—After a long and cold winter, it was time to be pampered and “create your best self.” Entrepreneurs Kelly Carey, Ashley Holmes and Barbara Biscone reached out to a number of health…
Culture
Lincolnville Community Center transformed into a multi-station spa
opening Cinco de Mayo
CAMDEN – El Ancla means the anchor and on Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m., Camden’s newest restaurant venture, El Ancla, will open on Public Landing. The restaurant was the former home of…
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship soon-to-be grad takes her skills in new direction
ROCKPORT—Rachel Davis, 35, is one of the students about to graduate from the Center For Furniture Craftsmanship. Among the many intricate, beautiful student-made pieces currently showing at the…
Adds to four more breweries opening in the Midcoast this spring
WALDOBORO — Even though it feels remote, one of the latest breweries opening in the Midcoast area is a stone’s throw from Moody’s Diner off Route 1.
Odd Alewives Farm Brewery, founded by…
Trekkapalooza’s annual rockin’ fundraiser is tonight April 27
ROCKLAND—Peytonious Maximus is all grown up.
Some of you may remember her in a…
Shows Friday and Saturday at the Camden Opera House
CAMDEN – Camden Rockport Middle School will present Disney’s Aladdin Jr. Friday, April 27, at 7 p.m. and two shows on Saturday, April 28, at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. The show will…
Earth Flow + Fire and Earth Candy occupy former speakeasy space
ROCKLAND — It’s been a long time since someone had to give the secret knock before entering the once famed and former speakeasy in the basement of the Thorndike building on Tillson Avenue, but…
It’s been a long time since the former Montsweag Roadhouse has been called Montsweag Farm Restaurant, and the establishment has been through a lot of changes over the 60-plus years since its…
Spring cleaning isn’t just about the house or car; it’s also a great time to do an internal inventory.
“Take A Chance Day” is celebrated nationally on April 23 as a way to motivate people…
BELFAST — The Belfast Free Library will host a cartooning club for kids and teens, ages 10 and up. The club will meet every Friday 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. starting April 27. Participants will explore…
Lincolnville Community Library hosts the (non)musical group
LINCOLNVILLE – Ten guys in tuxes singing a cappella. Camden Hills Regional High School's most prestigious, accomplished (and, admittedly, only) a cappella group, the OffBeats are a group of…
April 21
CAMDEN – Fresh off her UK tour with Jerry Douglas for the Transatlantic Sessions and dates with guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel, platinum-selling country songstress Suzy Bogguss is set to return to…
Is there a place that makes you feel happy? Where you feel safe and relaxed? A place that makes your heart swell a little, where you know you belong? A place you call home?
A couple of…
A Manga short book review
Fire Punch by Tatsuki Fujimoto, was voted edgiest manga beginning in 2018, so it is definitely not a good read for the squeamish! If you are not one of the faint-hearted, it is a…
Hail To the Rad Kids
BELFAST—After Zuber Yacoe, 13, is done with his homeschooled curriculum for the day, he’ll often take his iPhone with him outside and just roam around. He doesn’t know what he’s looking for, but…
Camden Shakespeare Festival, the Midcoast’s professional Shakespeare theatre, is seeking high school students for its summer plays. The performances take place from July 25 to August 12.
…
In business: Permanent Expressions Tattoo Parlor in its new Belfast space
BELFAST— Joshua Ard, the only tattoo artist in Belfast and Permanent Expressions’ owner, has spent the last eight years honing his craft in the the basement space of the Masonic Temple building on…
There was a definite electric-like current of excitement buzzing through the crowd at the 2018 Maine Photography Show (MPS) awards ceremony at Mine Oyster on Saturday, April 7. The photographers…
BELFAST — Midcoast Actors' Studio will be holding auditions for its summer musical, Cabaret. Auditions will be…
2018 Artists and Makers Conference, and thoughts on the creative enterprise
NORTHPORT—Close to 200 people attended the Artists and Makers Conference, Friday, April 6, at Point Lookout in Northport. For artists and crafters in the creative economy, the Archipelago/Island…
CRMS gym alive with science
CAMDEN – Students of Camden Rockport Middle School’s sixth grade demonstrated passion and persuasion Wednesday, April 4, in the school gym as they hosted a Kids Conference for Change. The…
ROCKLAND – First National Bank recently presented the Center for Maine Contemporary Art with $5,000 for the Bank's sponsorship of the Biennial Exhibition.
"The art scene in Rockland has…
Sweetgrass Farm Winery and Distillery offers ‘Whiskey Wednesdays,’ demonstrations on distilling
UNION—On a raw, rainy day in April, the interior of Sweetgrass Farm Winery and Distillery was warm and inviting with the pleasant aroma of oatmeal in the air. Co-owner Keith Bodine was using an…
May 5-13 in various concert venues
The DaPonte String Quartet’s final series of the season explores three very different kinds of obsession in works by Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert, and Bela Bartok. “Obsessions” has five performances…
Watershed School presents the production on stage
ROCKPORT – Students of the Watershed School, in Camden will present John Cariani's play "Almost, Maine” on April 7 and 8 in the Rockport Opera House. The production will feature 17 Watershed…
North Atlantic Blues Festival turns 25 and the music plays on
ROCKLAND – The Lobster Festival board recently named Paul Benjamin, organizer of the North Atlantic Blues Festival, to be the artistic director of the 2018 Maine Lobster Festival. Benjamin will…
During the Month of April the Belfast Free Library Teen Room is holding a short poem contest to celebrate National Poetry Month and Earth Day.
For this…
Starting a Garden from Scratch
Saturday, April 7, noon
Master Gardener and Washington resident Sharon Turner teaches the basics and answers beginner…
THOMASTON — Watts Hall Community Players announces auditions for its upcoming summer show, Pirates of Penzance. Auditions will be held in Watts Hall on Main Street, Thomaston on Saturday…
Penobscot Marine Museum exhibits Ruohomaa’s work at Camden Public Library April 3
SEARSPORT — The name Kosti Ruohomaa may not be familiar to everyone, but the Rockland photographer’s work is well known across the globe. And after Penobscot…
Hope apiaries craft natural candles from pure Maine beeswax
HOPE—Easter has come and gone but in many homes, small beeswax candles in the shape of bunnies and Easter Eggs, made by Susie Smith, serve as the holiday’s fragrant reminder.
Smith has been…
Spring is tentatively making its way back to Maine. We’ve got four food/drink/art events that appeal to both men and women and will have you looking forward to longer, warmer days ahead. So get…
Perfect score for programming and sight-reading music
On Wednesday, March 28, the Camden Hills Regional High School Concert Band, under the direction of Nancy Rowe, participated in the Maine Band Directors Association Concert Band Festival. Thirty…
Poetry
For Liz
Wouldn’t it be great
If we could take the colors
Of this $6.46 meal
Pale green soup
Yellow corn…
Dot’s Market fills with sound
LINCOLNVILLE – A standing-room-only crowd packed Dot's on Route 1 in Lincolnville on Saturday, March 31, where students from the Midcoast Music Academy performed a "Showcase." Tom Ulichny, founder…
Plain and unassuming, but down right homey
BELFAST – If you're not looking for it, it's easy to miss. The small unassuming location at 118 High Street in Belfast sits directly across form the Belfast Co-Op. Inside there isn't much more.…
Highlite was the theme song, ‘Rockland, Maine’
CAMDEN – A hearty group of ukulele players gathered at K2 Music in Reny's Plaza for a monthly jam session. From Montville to Boothbay and points in between, they came to play and play they did,…
Rich Ruggiero to open World War Two aviation themed brewery
ROCKLAND — Rockland will soon be welcoming a new microbrewery, Liberator Brewing Company, named for the World War Two B-24 bomber, is scheduled…
CAMDEN — Visit the Camden Public Library during National Library Week 2018 and celebrate the life of the library and the life of the community. National Library Week runs from Sunday, April 8 to…
Evening is followed with a concert band performance
WALDOBORO – Medomak Valley High School held its 15th annual Empty Bowl Supper on Wednesday, March 28, in the school cafeteria. Students in the art classes had been busy making approximately 200…
The Writers Harbor at Maine Media expands workshops to include travel writing, graphic novels, live storytelling
ROCKPORT — Maine Media Workshops + College plans on building a world-class writing program, fund more scholarships and attract high-profile faculty with the generous $300,000 grant, from James S.…
Owners file for bankruptcy
CAMDEN — Auctioneer Stefan Kennan is sitting in the parking lot of the Camden Harbour Inn this morning, March 29, letting people know who intended to attend the auction of the inn that the event…
The April calendar of the Camden Public Library includes:
Monday, April 2, 3:30 p.m.: Tax Readiness for The Self Employed. New Ventures…
Hail To The Rad Kids
BELFAST — How many people do you know who can draw skillful, detailed portraits in a sketchbook while in the backseat of a moving car or on the bench of a ferry as it rolls back and forth on the…
No June vote; nip and tuck underway
ROCKPORT — Cost estimates for the new Rockport library construction project came in over-budget by $750,000, which has resulted in the town select board adjusting course. Instead of placing a $1.…
Just one step in reducing restaurant’s enviromental footprint
CAMDEN – Sea Dog Brewing Co. in Camden is taking steps to decrease its environmental footprint by reducing the use of plastic straws. Alysia Nilsen, an employee at Sea Dog, initiated the effort to…
Owls Head Transportation Museum’s Pioneers, Innovators & Maineseries
OWLS HEAD—Everyone loves a good success story, but they happen to love it just a little bit more when there is a mini-tasting event afterward.
As part of Owls Head Transportation Museum’s…
In business: Self defense to help diffuse a situation
CAMDEN – Angela Crawford has a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and she has been teaching a women's self defense class at Flow Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at 255 Molyneaux Road, in Camden. The class…
Penobscot Marine Museum, a Searsport history and arts museum with nationally-recognized collections, announced March 23 that its Board of Trustees elected Karen E. Smith, Ph.D., as executive…
Catch Carla Skinder’s slide talk on kayaking next to wildlife March 21
ROCKLAND—At the intersection of Water Street and Main Street, there is a quiet gallery on the second floor of the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center that is worth…
