WALDOBORO — Dow Furniture’s Harvest Fest, in partnership with Cornerstone Financial Services of Waldoboro, was held on Saturday, October 26, and featured a free Harvest Lunch, Cornhole tournament…
Outdoors
Part II of The hidden, neglected graves of Maine
Walter Guptill, of South Thomaston, has always had a fascination with gravestones. A member of Maine Old Cemetery Association, Guptill volunteers to repair old gravestones that have been damaged,…
Nov. 16 from Maine Sports Outfitters to Hannaford
ROCKPORT — Maine Sport Outfitters is hosting a Turkey Ride the morning of Saturday, Nov. 16 to benefit the Camden Area Food Pantry.
Starting at 9 a.m., participants will bike from Maine…
Running pure
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — As Steve Cartwright, of Tenants Harbor, ran toward the finish line of the 2019 Mount Desert Island Marathon, October 20, spectators performed double takes and gasped.
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monarch butterfly roosts high in some of the spruces and pines
When I visited Monhegan, a small island about 10 miles off the coast of Maine, this past Labor Day weekend, I witnessed a heartening number of monarch caterpillars, chrysalides, and flying adult…
Paddling Penobscot River from Bangor to Brooklin
Gabby Schulz lives deep in the woods of Maine—it’s as far away from the city he can get.
As one of 10 participants on the floating artist residency in my story,…
Prizes in three categories will be awarded
ROCKLAND — Applications to enter a float in Rockland Main Street’s annual Parade of Lights in downtown Rockland are available.
Families, neighborhoods, businesses and organizations wishing…
The Camden Snow Bowl hosted Baxter Outdoors’ sixth trail running and second and final duathlon event in the New England Trail Series season on Saturday, October 5, as part of the fourth annual…
pocket-size brochure Distributed at Camden Public Library, Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce, Camden Town Office, hotels and inns, shops and restaurants
CAMDEN — A newly produced self-guided tour of Camden’s Historic Mills is one of the many projects the Historic Resources Committee helped facilitate in 2019. The tour is presented in a brochure…
construction of first 5.5 miles has begun
CAMDEN — After staging a successful Fondo event in Searsmont, the Midcoast Chapter of NEMBA (New England Mountain Biking Association) was able to meet its $10,000 goal to…
ROCKPORT — The 13th annual Harvest Festival and Tag Sale will be held at Nativity Lutheran Church, in Rockport, on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The event features a ladies…
CAMDEN — In July 2000, Scott, of Lewiston, was in a motor vehicle accident. He spent five months in a coma, and approximately 18 years working to return his paralyzed left side to a fully-…
CAMDEN — 34 degrees at 7 a.m., a cold wind, and a slight morning delay easily changed into clear blue skies and sunny dispositions for the participants of the Camden Snow Bowl Trail Fest.
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Award-winning corn maze has elaborate, artistic design
LEVANT—Fall is road trip time and one of the coolest destinations we’ve seen in a long time is the Treworgy Family Orchard corn maze that changes its five-acre corn fields every year into a…
Pope Memorial Humane Society held its first-ever K9 Carnival at Rockland Harbor, Saturday, Sept. 28. The event celebrated the Society’s 30th anniversary with a doggy obstacle course, canine-…
CAMDEN — Two hundred and 45 participants ran, jumped, shimmied, and strategized their way through the annual Ragged Mountain Scuttle, Sunday, Sept. 29, at the Camden Snow Bowl.
Starting at…
BELFAST — Belfast’s Heritage Park underwent a colorful transformation Saturday, Sept. 21, as artists and enthusiastic novices took part in this year’s Chalk Walk. …
Lease business operations, keep the facility running, employ workers
NORTHPORT — Tami and David Hirschfeld, of Camden and Montana, are circulating requests for proposals to lease portions of the 387-acre Point Lookout Resort in Northport and keep the restaurant,…
‘HE HAS INSPIRED MANY STUDENTS OVER THE YEARS, AND HE IS APPRECIATED BY THEM ALL’
WALDOBORO — The George Gould Nature Trail will officially open Saturday, Sept. 28 at 11 a.m.
Edwin Stone, a local Eagle Scout has been working on this special project for a while and the…
Fundraiser for Fourth-Grade Learn to Ski Program
The nights are getting cooler and that means it's time for Pancakes and Chairlift Rides Sundays in October, courtesy of Ragged Mountain Ski Club and the Camden Snow Bowl. Breakfast is by suggested…
AUGUSTA — The third opportunity to win a Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (MDIFW) Keeper of the Maine Outdoors Experience is a fishy one.
The winner of the Keeper of the…
BELFAST — Cloudy weather greeted attendees and guests of this year’s annual Belfast Municipal Airport Fly-In, though dispositions remained sunny.
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THORNDIKE — Known by its residents as a town divided over some municipal issues, its people came together, Saturday, Sept. 14, to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime occasion: Thorndike’s Bicentennial…
Next year’s ride is a closely guarded secret
ROCKLAND – The Bicycle Coalition of Maine began its trek toward the Maine coast September 7, with 450…
launches fundraising campaign for Beech Hill project
ROCKPORT — Trails and paths for the general public in Rockport and the greater Midcoast just keep getting better, and a large portion of that effort is attributed to Coastal Mountains Land Trust.…
BELFAST — The 16th annual Wienerfest took place Sunday, Sept. 8, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., hosted by PAWS Animal Adoption Center.
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CAMDEN — Jackets ripped. Waist bands hoisted. Hem lines dragged. Yet no one fell!
All was lighthearted among the 24 young Fish Relay contestants racing and tossing fish Saturday, Aug. 31,…
to pass through belfast and camden
BOSTON — A group of employees from Ceres, a Boston-based sustainability nonprofit organization with global reach and influence, will bike 400 miles from Maine to Massachusetts to raise awareness…
Emily MacCabe, who directed the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's award-winning "Keeper of the Maine Outdoors" campaign and was recently honored as the northeasts Information and…
season divided into three segments
AUGUSTA — Maine’s bear season begins on Monday, August 26 throughout the state of Maine, and youth hunters get their own day this Saturday, August 24.
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In business: ‘We simply want to take down any barriers to getting people outside’
WALDOBORO — Heading into the Maine woods, sipping on a cocktail and being fed by a private chef is not your ordinary camping experience.
At Tops’l Farm in Waldoboro, however, the ordinary…
BELFAST — A gray sky greeted the hundreds of spectators that gathered on the beach near Belfast’s Boathouse to watch the six vessels in this year’s Cardboard Boat Challenge, which took place Aug.…
UNION — Shannon Christy Hopkins, of Camden, has been crowned the 2019 Maine Wild Blueberry Queen.
Hopkins is a 2015 graduate of Camden Hills Regional High School and a…
By late summer, birdsong has quieted. Shorebirds’ southward migration is underway. Fledged birds—from sparrows to hawks—are newly on their own. Robins are considering a third nesting. And…
From easy to challenging, mountain bikers find the trails
Over the past decade, the number of mountain biking trails has grown exponentially in the Midcoast. New networks of have been built: the Goose River trails, off the southwest side of Ragged…
MIDCOAST — 3:15 a.m., Sunday morning, Aug. 13, I head south on foot along Route 1 from the Belfast Fire Station to the Northport Fire Station. Twenty feet ahead of me is almost total darkness. The…
HOPE — Knox County Fish and Game in Hope will host a youth outdoor program Saturday, Sept. 7.
It will be an aquatic based program dealing with canoeing and kayaking, fishing as well as…
MIDCOAST — A running relay will wind its way through the Midcoast along Route 1, Sunday morning, August 11.
With little fanfare expected, at least one runner at each stage will pass the…
ROCKLAND — Three large tubs of cole slaw per day. Twenty-three thousand pounds of lobster cooked between Wednesday lunch and Saturday night – with Sunday still to come.
Despite an overly…
Updated with race results
ROCKLAND — Runners of all ages flashed their race bibs and sneakers Sunday morning, in Rockland.
As 10K runners hit their halfway point, 5K runners began filtering through the finish line…
parade photo gallery part 1
ROCKLAND — Blue skies and an appreciative crowd lined Rockland’s streets, Saturday, Aug. 3, in recognition of the U.S. Armed Forces and the community.
All five services were represented…
collaborating of phase two in progress; fall/winter use anticipated
ROCKLAND — Sidecountry Sports owners Andrew Dailey and Brian Kelley have pledged of $10,000 to the Georges River Land Trust trails program.
Georges River Land Trust manages more than 60…
ROCKLAND — The family tree of Sea Goddesses added another branch Wednesday, July 31, as the 72nd annual Maine Lobster Festival crowned its newest royal court.
A couple hundred people…
WALDOBORO — On October 19, the Midcoast Sports Hall of Fame will induct eight individuals into the Hall of Fame at their Annual Banquet.
Inductees for 2019 include:
Ann Betts…
Running through the night toward the sun
DOWNEAST — To Eastport or Bust. Two teams representing trail runners of Midcoast Maine held their own in a sometimes grueling 102-mile running relay from Ellsworth to Eastport Friday and Saturday…
ROCKLAND — Lobster Festival organizers started opening day a bit early this year – 5 a.m. to be exact – doing roughly quarter-hour interviews with Zach Blanchard, of NewsCenter Maine.
The…
THOMASTON — The third annual Nathan Robertson Memorial family fun weekend will take place in Thomaston on Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11.
Festivities will begin Saturday, Aug. 10 at…
BELMONT — The Belmont, Maine Backyard Reunion is celebrating its 25th year of family reunions.
This year’s reunion is held on the second Saturday in August, in this case August 10, in the…
AUGUSTA – Oral rabies vaccine baits will be distributed in northeastern Maine beginning on or about August 3 through August 7 as part of ongoing…
