The Maine Department of Public Safety is recognizing National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, April 12–18, 2026, honoring the dedicated professionals who serve as…
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ROCKLAND — Despite raising their concerns about pay equality in 2011, 2016 and 2024, two female employees of Knox County said in a civil rights action filed June 23 in U.S. District Court that…
Commissioner Ratner pledges resolution
Knox Regional Communications Center (KRCC), the county’s Rockland-based 911 dispatch service, found itself in a personnel crisis again last week. Staff by late Wednesday, Feb. 5, was reportedly…
Father uses bait line to tie off umbilical cord
LINCOLNVILLE – At 10:07 a.m., January 16, 2022, Knox Regional Communications Center Dispatcher Tracie Webster received a call for a…
The first first responders are here for you
On February 16, 1968, at 2 p.m.,…
ROCKLAND — The Knox Regional Communication Center opened its doors and filled the parking lots with a variety of all terrain public safety emergency vehicles at a community open house at…
Knox County Regional Communcations Center’s first-first responders at work
ROCKLAND — Tucked in a low-lit room within the …
Knox Budget Committee at center of debate
ROCKLAND — It began in 2001 when the state decided that municipal dispatchers be combined into regional dispatch centers. In 2008, the Knox Regional Communication Center Executive Board and…
Friendly Callers program a support line for elderly, infirm
BELFAST — Shirley Bessey got a call in the middle of the night: “You got cows out in the road.” Granted, it was 2:30 a.m. and the road by Thor-Knox Farms on the Knox Ridge is quiet at that time of…
