The Ski Museum of Maine, in Kingfield, was awarded a grant…
Outdoors
From the Pine Tree State to the World Stage
The Land for Maine's Future (LMF) Board is seeking proposals for Working Waterfront Access Protection Program (WWAPP) projects. The Board will make awards up to approximately $2 million from Land…
Snowmaking begins at Ragged Mountain
CAMDEN — The snow making equipment was turned on at 4:30 p.m., Dec. 4, at the Camden Snow Bowl, where a crew kept the guns running through the night, until the 8 a.m., Dec. 5, when they lost a…
Atlantic salmon found in only a few rivers in Maine, including Ducktrap
For 10 days in October, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries biologist Tim Sheehan spent six to eight hours each day with a local fisherman trolling slowly in Igaliko Fjord in…
A local chapter to a national grassroots organization
ROCKLAND — A small group of “Broads and Bros” over the age of 50 gathered at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center November 14 for a specific purpose: To advocate for Maine…
Snapshot
Janet Smith captured this adult eagle on her Canon sx40hs in the backyard, near Mt. Pleasant in Rockport, on Nov. 23.
According to Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife: “At 5 years of age,…
Maine Casting for Recovery and Togus’s Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing
ROCKPORT — George's River Trout Unlimited welcomes Bonnie Holding, Casting for Recovery – Maine Program coordinator, and Mike May, program lead for Togus VA Medical Center Project Healing Waters…
Christmas By the Sea parade, Harbor Park Christmas Tree lighting, bonfire on the beach
CAMDEN — This coming weekend, Santa will make his annual appearance in Camden, joining the festivities starting Friday night at Christmas By the Sea. The local holiday tradition has continued for…
replacing most of the 180 aging and breaking bog bridges
BELFAST — A grant from the Maine Community Foundation has enabled the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition (BBWC) to purchase enough cedar planks to replace most of the 180 aging and breaking bog…
CAMDEN/ROCKPORT — Y run in the cold? We didn’t stick around to ask. Call it a natural counterbalance. As runners heated up, bystanders cooled down.
The November 23 annual post-Thanksgiving…
Now is the season for lights: strung up on Christmas trees, along our porch eaves, on the holiday wreaths on the town lampposts, in shop windows, on the shrubbery in the front yard. As we approach…
PORTLAND — Megunticook Rowing had a great 2018 fall season consisting of a community event in Portland, two regattas, according to a news release. Events also…
‘Light Up Main Street for Christmas and Beyond’ schedule here
ROCKLAND — Despite a wind advisory throughout Maine, Wednesday, Nov. 14, a group of intrepid volunteers in…
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DAMARISCOTTA — Getting out for a little exercise can be a fine way to kick off the Thanksgiving holiday, especially when it benefits a good cause. For a few years now on Thanksgiving Day, a group…
PORT CLYDE — The Marshall Point Lighthouse Committee announces that work is underway. Despite the rainy weather this fall, progress has begun on the reproduction turn-of-century Keeper’s Barn and…
From the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
The Saint George River flows approximately 50-miles from its headwaters in the town of Liberty to its estuary in Thomaston. Along its route, the St. George has long stretches of flowing riverine…
In their own words
A cold, November rain failed to dampen the spirits of students from the Outdoor Leadership program at Waldo County Technical Center when they invited their Tech Center classmates and teachers to…
“A little bit of wilderness” Protected in Waldoboro
WALDOBORO — On Dutch Neck in Waldoboro, a “little bit of wilderness” has been preserved for generations to come thanks to the donation of a six-acre parcel of land…
One piece of candy at a time
CAMDEN - Pearl Street lived up to its tradition as the center of the Halloween universe for another year as perhaps more than 1,000 adults and children crowded the pavement and visited house after…
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AURORA — The Camden-Rockport boys and girls cross country teams hit the road Thursday, Oct. 25 to Aurora in Hancock County to participate in the Airline Invitational at Aurora Community School and…
What’s on the town warrant?
VINALHAVEN — When Vinalhaven voters head to the polls Nov. 6 they will encounter a municipal warrant on improving the playground located at the Vinalhaven School.
The question states: “Do…
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BELFAST — The 2018 Maine state cross country championships were held Saturday, Oct. 27 at Belfast’s Troy Howard Middle School and featured runners from Camden Hills, Belfast and Medomak Valley. …
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CAMDEN — The Camden Hills mountain bike team hosted a race that included three other teams Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Camden Snow Bowl.
Team results for the day saw Camden Hills finish…
CAMDEN — On Thursday, October 18, Maine Sport Outfitters partnered with Deedee Conover and the Town of Camden for a day of cleanup on Curtis Island in Camden Harbor.
A team of four…
BELFAST — SeaHorse Stables drew a steady crowd with their open farm fundraiser, which took place Sunday, Oct. 14, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at their Belmont Ave.…
Meditations
As we approach that time of year when things get a little creepy, it seems appropriate to take a closer look at one of Maine's more charismatic plants—a plant…
Volunteers monitor water quality of Rockport ponds
The Rockport Conservation Committee has partnered with the Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program to collect information and learn more about the ecology, health, and function of the ponds in Rockport…
THOMASTON — When Oceanside Middle School needed a program to help students with ADHD redirect energy so they can be more productive in school, the Riding for Focus curriculum was formed. But then…
November 24, 6 p.m., Main Street, Rockland
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…
BELFAST — The Game Loft hosted a Magic the Gathering Guilds of Ravnica Draft tournament on Saturday, October 6. Twenty-four players ranging from elementary-school-aged to adult were in attendance…
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BETHEL — The Camden Hills mountain bike team hit the road to Bethel’s Gould Academy on Saturday, Oct. 13 to compete in a race that is part of the Northern New England High School mountain bike…
Heads up, hunters:
“To all who hunt in Maine: Your help is needed to protect Maine’s deer and moose populations from a devastating disease.” That’s the start of a public letter from the…
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ROCKPORT — It was a beautiful day for a 5K race and 42 people came out to support the Camden Hills cross country team by racing the second annual Race for the Crockett Trail 5K.
The…
William E. Penley, of Scarborough, was hunting turkeys with his grandson at the residence of a family member on the Richmond Mills Road in Wayne Oct. 8, according to news release from…
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AUGUSTA — The Camden Hills mountain bike team competed in a race at the Bond Brook Trail in Augusta on Saturday, Oct. 6 and secured several top three finishes.
In Group A, Bryce Carlson…
ROCKPORT — Trail creation is set to begin in a few weeks along 5.5 miles connecting the Camden Snow Bowl to a future parking lot at 87 Hope Street near the Thorndike…
New infrastructure project to help transform former paper mill into an industrial park to support Maine’s forest industry
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, said the Millinocket-based nonprofit Our Katahdin has been awarded $5.3 million from the Economic…
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ROCKPORT — The Camden Hills cross country program will host the second annual Race for the Crockett Trail 5K at the high school, located at 25 Keelson Drive in Rockport, on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 11…
Right now it’s easy to be green, because, as the Fall Foliage Report from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry notes, there is spotty color…
WALDOBORO — Big changes are afoot at Medomak Valley Land Trust as MVLT pursues a proposed merger with neighboring Midcoast Conservancy.
MVLT will host two Q & A sessions at the MVLT…
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POWNAL — The Camden Hills mountain bike team posted strong results at a race at Pownal’s Bradbury Mountain State Park Saturday, Sept. 22.
The team swept the junior three person male…
Meditations
Some new Camden residents moved into the lower Pearl Street neighborhood this spring, and have distinguished themselves by how noisy they are. But the neighbors aren't complaining. Rather, they're…
The ADA Pathway at the Langlais Sculpture Preserve in Cushing is newly augmented by the long-term loan of a wheelchair by Carol Rohl. Having made her…
ROCKLAND – Celebrate National Wildlife Refuge Week with programs all week. This year, Maine Coastal Islands NWR with help from the Friends’ Group is celebrating the Centennial of the Migratory…
Law enforcement ‘Keepers of the Flame’ for Special Olympics
THOMASTON – The Special Olympians in the Camden/Thomaston area love to attend winter and summer Olympic Games, held annually in Maine. They run. They jump. They swim, and they throw.
As…
Ice cream, wagon rides, animals
APPLETON – Terra Optima will be opening its fields to the public for a Fabulous Farm Festival, Sunday, October 7.
The event will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a pig roast, Fresh Ella’s ice…
Author and school speaker Tim Caverly on the realities of the North Woods
Many outdoor people think working in the remote Maine woods is a dream job. But Tim Caverly, who was the supervisor of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway for 18 years, can tell you some stories. For…
BELFAST — The fourth annual Fly-in event at Belfast Municipal Airport had a foggy start Sept. 15, with the low-lying clouds causing cancellations from some of the…
Helped by humans, he’s back in the neighborhood
ROCKLAND – On July 27, neighbors of Pacific and Lawrence streets in Rockland spent several hours listening to the cry of a crow.
Crows are vocal in this neighborhood, having staked their…
While walking the grounds of Plants Unlimited one recent August day, I was surprised to turn a corner and flush a shorebird. Somewhere near the hydrangeas, I came upon it again: a Least Sandpiper…
