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The following students at Belfast Area High School have been named to the Second Quarter Honor Roll:
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HIGH HONORS: Ian Beal, Luciana Birocco, Walden Cutting,…

ROCKPORT — The Red Cross will be holding a blood drive Tuesday, Feb. 25, from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., at the Pen Bay YMCA Rockport.…

CAMDEN — United Midcoast Charities (UMC) has launched a new initiative to empower the next generation of leaders: inviting high school students to participate as Junior Grant Readers.
"With…

Students at Waldo County Technical Center (WCTC) participated in their annual SkillsUSA competition at the local level on January 24, 2025. The winners of these…

ROCKPORT — "Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers, but early detection can save lives," said MaineHealth, in a news release. "Many in the fishing and maritime industries face high exposure…

ROCKPORT — MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital has begun a new partnership between its Pediatrics department and Mainely Teeth, a nonprofit mobile dental clinic that brings access to quality dental care…

Cold Water Dipping groups gathered at frozen ponds and chilly beaches from Brooklin to York to support Maine domestic abuse victims on February 9.
The Statewide “Love…

A bright and very cold recent Saturday found the Scouts from BSA Troop 200 in full winter gear, hauling packed sleds across the snowy trails of Castine’s Witherle Woods Preserve. They were there…

Nick Lund will lead an online presentation called, Maine’s Spring Birds, …

ROCKLAND — Maine Health will present a Fall Prevention Workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 2 p.m., at the Rockland Public Library, as part of the Aging Well series co…

Camden Garden Club Winter Horticulture Series will hear "An Introduction to the Benefits of Nature Experiences for…

BELFAST — MaineHealth Cancer Care Belfast invites all patients and community members who are experiencing cancer to attend their Cancer Support Group, held the second and fourth Tuesdays of each…

If you had a hunch that a lot of…

LIBERTY — The 8th annual Riley’s Wish Winter Games & Derby will be on Saturday, February 15, 2025 and is being hosted this year by Lake St. George Brewing…

Are there good bees and bad bees? Do they talk? Tune in for the inside scoop on “The Secret Lives of Wild Bees,” presented by Nick Dorian, Ph.D. ecologist and educator…
Students at TGS have been focusing on empathy during the month of January, 2025. Several students at Thomaston Grammar School were recognized for being empathetic at a school-wide assembly on…

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s 2025 Spring Plant Sale Catalog is now available in print and online. Plants are available for pre-order, either online or by mail through…

Brett Willard will lead an online presentation called, Identifying and Preventing the Spread of Aquatic…

Heidi Perkins and three friends are in the middle of a fundraising effort to help Kim Moran, whose home burned to the ground Dec. 20 on the shores of Coleman Pond, in Lincolnville.
"She was…
If Trump and his supporters are concerned about government fraud, the Trump administration should reinstate the 17 independent inspectors general that Trump fired on January 25.
The U.S.…

ROCKLAND — Now in its 31st year, Rockland-based Trekkers’ youth mentoring program is inviting seventh graders that live in Rockland, Thomaston, South Thomaston, Cushing, Owls Head, and St. George…

Twenty-year-old Lilly DesRoberts talks about how her high school boyfriend robbed her of college life in the Teen Dating Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month episode of the “Let’s Talk About It”…

Dipping groups across Maine participating in the second annual Finding Our Voices “Love Yourself” Cold Water Dip will wear yellow and wade into freezing water Sunday, Feb. 9 to raise money for…

Super Bowl LIX is taking place on Sunday, February 9 and the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety and its law enforcement partners across the State are asking fans to remember the following simple, safe…

BELFAST — MaineHealth Pen Bay and Waldo Hospitals will hold their first community town hall of 2025 on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., on the Waldo campus, located at 118 Northport Ave.…

THOMASTON — Healthy Kids will host a free Community Baby Shower and Resource Fair, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, from 9 a.m. - noon, at the Thomaston Academy Gym, 60 Main St., Thomaston.
This fun…

If you picked up a Long Coast non-alcoholic wild blueberry mojito, which contains hemp-derived THC and promises “all of the buzz, none of the hangover,” you’d experience intoxicating effects…

ROCKPORT — Rockport Public Library’s “foodie series” returns Saturday, Feb. 15, at 12 p.m., with a presentation by Union St. Sourdough owner/baker Bridget Mariner. A variety of…

ROCKLAND — A gluten-free sourdough workshop will be held Sunday, Feb. 16, from 2:30 - 4 p.m., at Hole in The Wall Bagels, 754 Main Street, Rockland.
Participants will learn how to make…

ROCKPORT — Granite Coast Orthodontics announces the addition of Dr. Emily Leach, DMD, MS, to its team.
"Leach brings an outstanding academic record, a passion for patient care, and a deep…

BELFAST — The Belfast Tractor Supply is inviting customers to attend a Pet Adoption Event on Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
The pet adoption event is open to the public and…

CAMDEN-ROCKPORT — With the tense…

Responding to some communities’ difficulty meeting the rising cost of education, Rep. Michael Brennan, D-Portland, has filed a …

South School, an elementary school in Regional School Unit 13 (RSU 13), is making progress on its outdoor learning center and trail project, thanks to the support of local businesses and…

CAMDEN — Monday, Feb. 10, from noon to 2 p.m., the Camden area Parkinson’s Support Group will convene its monthly meeting at the Anderson Inn at Quarry Hill.
Linn Cole, a certified health…

WARREN — For little legs, reaching a 100-mile physical activity goal can feel like a daunting challenge.
But thanks to a new 100 Mile Club program piloted at Warren Community School by the…

CAMDEN — Quarry Hill offers a program on the safe handling of medications, Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 1:30 p.m., at the Anderson Inn. MaineHealth Pharmacy Pen Bay Hospital and Penobscot Bay…

Tuesday, Feb. 4, from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m., join the Camden Garden Club, in collaboration with the Camden Public Library, as it celebrates the winter with a special garden…

The public is invited to learn from a Friends of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge summer island intern, who lived 24/7 on remote islands in the Gulf of Maine, about w…

Camden Rockport Elementary School is now accepting applications for its Nature-Based Pre-K Program for the 2025-26 school year. The program emphasizes outdoor learning, a curriculum guided by…

In September, Camden residents and volunteers partnered with the Camden Conservation Commission and Public Works to plant trees throughout the town as part of the Street Tree Program. The…

BELFAST — Coastal Mountains Land Trust will host another Wednesday Waldo Walk on February 12, at 10 a.m., at the Head of Tide Preserve in Belfast.
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Do you want to help your neighbors stay warm this winter, or enjoy a delicious lasagna lunch, or purchase many choices of chocolate goodies?
Attend the annual Chocolate Fest sponsored by…

Women across Maine are dipping to raise money for domestic abuse survivors on Super Bowl Sunday.
On February 9, Maine oceans and lakes will be dotted with yellow as women wearing that…

Sonja Pleck, PhD, will lead an online presentation called Mnemonic…

ROCKPORT — Join Coastal Mountains Land Trust on Tuesday, Feb. 11, for a full moon hike at Beech Hill Preserve, in Rockport. The group will meet at the Beech Hill Road trailhead at 5 p.m., and hike…

CAMDEN & ROCKPORT — Warming…

Gary Fish will lead an online presentation called, Plants on Maine’s Do-Not-Sell List,…

In November, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services proposed the first major update to assisted living and residential care facility rules in more than 15 years. The scope of the…