Over the last few weeks, Camden, Hope, Lincolnville and Rockport voted on the method and cost of disposing of household waste, and the…

Article 14 of this year's Rockport Annual Town Meeting Warrant is a request of voters to spend $300,000 on the design and engineering of a municipally owned broadband network that will bring…

On June 14, Camden, Islesboro and Rockport Democratic voters will select a House of Representatives candidate to run in the general…

More than two dozen businesses and other organizations petitioned the Maine Public Utilities Commission, ahead of the agency's upcoming…

To the residents of Camden, Hope, Lincolnville, and Rockport: Over the next week, your fellow citizens will be voting at the Annual Town Meeting in each community on a number of important topics,…

Article 16 on Camden’s 2016 Town Meeting warrant about the feeding of Wild Animals and Waterfowl will not prohibit the feeding of songbirds and having bird feeders. The proposed ordinance…

No one is running for the open seat on the Camden Personnel Board, which surprises me because I heard several references to this board come up while serving on the Budget Committee this…

Friends and Neighbors: The Democratic primary for state representative is almost here. I'm honored to have the support of so many people throughout our community — people of every age and walk of…

Rarely do we have a chance to make real change happen, and when such a chance comes along we ought to grab it. Kathleen Meil wants to…

All five current members of the Camden Select Board have crafted and voted to endorse one of the most restrictive bird and wildlife feeding ordinances that has ever been adopted by any democratic…

Marc Ratner explains his reasons for running for Camden Select Board:

My name is Marc Ratner and I’m running for the open seat on the Camden…

 Governor LePage, as he is inclined to do with far too little thought, routinely vetoed a batch of legislation that arrived at his desk for signature last week.  Among those was LD 1468, a bill to…

ROCKLAND — For two years now, Chris Wolf has been broadcasting The Chris Wolf Show on local community radio WRFR-LP. His guests have included a pet store owner and a selectman, a town manager and…

 It’s closing time at a restaurant in Sweden and the lobsters…

OWLS HEAD — It’s a great spring day outside. You’ve spent your morning cleaning or getting your garden ready for planting. And then, it hits you. You’re hungry. And it’s that kind of hunger that…

In honor of Lt. Albert D. Holbrook and Pvt. Arthur E. Winslow, who were killed in France in World War I.

Maine seems a quiet…

In Maine, organizations such as Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital do not exist to make a profit, and that's a good thing for our patients. That nonprofit status enables us…

AUGUSTA — On March 30, Governor Paul LePage signed LD 180, "An Act To Allow Terminally Ill Patients to use Experimental Treatments," making…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Angus King and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree welcomed an agreement announced today to lease a surplus Navy…

On Sunday, March 6, 2016, along with record numbers of other Mainers, I did my bit at the Democratic caucus, heading…

BELFAST – In the City of Belfast, the lives of hundreds of people with disabilities, their families, employers and caretakers have been…

"It changes lives," I remarked to the ski instructor sitting next to me on the chairlift.

"Thank god for the movers and shakers who raise the money to keep this place going," she replied, as…

Wear the right clothes and you can run in just about anything. I have run in minus-15 degrees F; I have run in blizzards at 10 degrees F. I…

I thought I was doing pretty well, at age 59, to have never spent the night in a hospital. That changed in a hurry for me this past summer when a CAT scan showed that I didn't have kidney stones;…

 I knew I lived in an exceptional community, but in the wake of a recent tragedy, I have come to know just…

ROCKPORT — What’s new with the Rockport Public Library? For starters, the library is planning to move in December to its new digs on Route…

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Chellie Pingree joined other lawmakers today in blasting announcements from the FDA approving…

I met Laurie Jillson at City Hall. She greeted me with bright eyes, an open smile and warm handshake. Her husband, Bill, had…

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine), along with several of his Senate and House colleagues, sent a letter to the Acting…

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree expressed disappointment today at the Social Security Administration’s announcement that there…

Today, Sept. 24, as the …

There is a homeless woman my age who sleeps in the bushes overlooking the harbor. She washes her clothes in the town restroom,…

WASHINGTON, DC — I returned to Washington this week after an eventful month of work in Maine that provided some great insights into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. And while it’s…

ROCKLAND — As we prepare for the start of the fall sports season, I find myself getting excited to start my 15th year…

Dennis Dechaine's latest bid to overturn his rightful punishment was shot down by the Maine Law Court this week. That is, as it…

Ah, tee ball. 

Just those words alone have a nice ring to them. 

Earlier this month, June 5 to be exact, I went out to a pair of Oceanside Little League tee ball contests that pitted…

As one of the three selectmen who voted to put the question of discontinuing four of Lincolnville's town roads…

Natural gas, it's been in the news a bit lately. Like it was in Rockland this past week, for example. In a…

If your dog could only talk: ‘I am sorry that I can't poop in the toilet like you or in the litter box like that cat (I really…

Bullying gets a great deal of discussion revolving around social media and school kids. Bullies grow up, however, and a pattern of successful bullying without reprisal in youth leads…

As our veterans return home from the Middle East and other conflicts across the globe, cities, towns, churches, civic organizations and families have found many ways to honor those who have…

UNION — The air was crisp and cold with loads of sunshine carrying little wind for the third annual Snow sculpture contest for Vose Library.

Families arrived by car full bringing special…

Dear Community Members,

I recently sent a letter to our parents that reads very similar to this one. The purpose is to help people better understand the issues around standardized testing…

On February 27, 2015 Casco Baykeeper emeritus Joe Payne told a group of environmentalists at Belfast's Unitarian Universalist Church that a Penobscot Baykeeper program is long overdue, and offered…

CAMDEN — Down East released its 2015 list of the best places to live in Maine in the March issue of the magazine, on newsstands now. The list pinpoints eight communities around the state…

The struggle for control of Maine’s county jails, between the governor and the counties, just ended round three. The governor won.

In 2008 then Gov. Baldacci, as he did with schools, tried…

I am an avid downhill skier, so this year's delay at the Snow Bowl has been, to put it mildly, frustrating. I love the winter air, the snow, the low light of a winter afternoon. Not one…