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ROCKPORT — The Camden Hills varsity boys lacrosse team opened its season Friday, April 14 with a win over Lincoln Academy. The victory was a great way to start to start the year for a team that…

Ahoy Windjammer Days (WJD) fans! The 61st event, to be held June 25 - July 1, is but two months away and those Friends of Windjammer Days have been wicked busy!

FWJD board member Pete…

ROCKPORT — Volleyball could soon be coming to Camden Hills Regional High School with Athletic Director Jeff Hart set to propose the sport’s addition at the school board meeting Wednesday, April 5…

AUGUSTA — On Thursday, March 30, Senator Pinny Beebe-Center, D-Rockland, welcomed the Camden Hills Regional High School girls and boys varsity swim teams to be recognized March 30 in the Senate…

The Hills to Sea Trails Coalition is looking for individuals willing to steward a section of the Hills to Sea Trail. The trail passes through the towns of Belfast, Waldo,…

ROCKPORT — Registration for the first three weeks of April pickleball opens Wednesday, March 29 at 8 a.m. 

Spots for the April 1-21 timeframe will be limited and are expected to fill…

Forty years ago, the first Maine Maple Sunday was held celebrating a process and product colonists learned from Native Americans here in the Northeast. Before the colonists arrived with their iron…

AUGUSTA — A public hearing was held this week for a bill by Rep. Amanda Collamore (R-Pittsfield) that would authorize the sports of kickboxing and muay thai to hold competitions in Maine: LD 950…

Entire walkway gets rebuild

CAMDEN – The town-owned portion of Camden Harbor is getting a facelift with new decking after the December 23 storm caused significant damage to the aging boardwalk.  

“It was the high tide…

CUMBERLAND — The Maine Sports Hall of Fame will induct 10 individuals in a ceremony at the Merrill Auditorium on October 29.

“I am very proud of our diversity in terms of geography and the…

As the Maine high school basketball season has come to a close, First National Bank is pleased to report the successful results of their signature athletic programming sponsorship…

BOSTON — On Sunday, March 5, 2023 Megunticook Rowing competed at the C.R.A.S.H. B. Sprints at the TRACK at New Balance. 

C.R.A.S.H. B. stands for the Charles River Association of Sculling…

Sledgehammers help in breaking path to water

ROCKPORT — On many winter mornings, just after 7:30, a flurry of cars and small SUVs have descended the steep hill to Marine Park, at…

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ROCKPORT — Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine’s 2023 Golf Fore Kids’ Sake at Samoset Resort, presented by Dover Ford and Union Fair Auto, welcomes teams to participate in its May 26, 2023…

ROCKPORT — After 15 years of benign neglect, the Town of Rockport has turned attention to the Marge Jones Recreation…

Due to the timing of this weekend’s storm, all high school basketball playoff games slated for Saturday have been postponed.

Below is the schedule for those impacted state championship…

The Midcoast Umpire Association of Maine (MUA) will be providing training for interested new members, or individuals looking to learn more about the game of baseball or softball.

The…

The third annual MAC All-Star Classic basketball game and three-point contest returns on Friday, March 10 featuring Midcoast high school boy and girl players from Belfast to Boothbay. 

The…

The Theodore Hedstrom Memorial Benefit ice hockey tournament returns to the Midcoast Recreation Center from March 31 to April 2.

The high school division will play Friday, March 31, the two…

Schooner Eastwind, Maine

In case you missed the January Mainebiz article, for the first time since summer 1974 in Boothbay Harbor, there will not be a schooner owned by Herb and Doris Smith or their son and…

maddie ripley wins another state crown

WELLS — A trio of local athletes competed Tuesday, Feb. 21 in the girls state wrestling championships with two of the three placing at the title event. 

107 pounds: Maddie Ripley (Oceanside…

The indoor track and field teams from Belfast, Medomak Valley and Oceanside competed Monday, Feb. 20 at Bates College in the high school state championships. 

Medomak Valley finished in…

History was made at the Class B state wrestling championships Saturday, Feb. 18 as Maddie Ripley of Oceanside became the first female to win a co-ed state wrestling crown in the state and also was…

ROCKPORT — The Midcoast Recreation Center will be hosting a mixed doubles pickleball tournament Saturday, March 25, and registration is now open. 

The tournament is for Level 3 and 4…

SANFORD — The Camden Hills wrestling team traveled to Sanford to compete Saturday, Feb. 18 in the Class A state wrestling championships. 

Two Windjammers won individual crowns while three…

mount view finishes seventh

The Belfast high school wrestling program won the Class B North championship Saturday, Feb. 11 while Mount View, meanwhile in seventh place. 

Team Scores
1. Belfast —…

The Busline League middle school basketball season came to a close Saturday, Feb. 11 with the league championships held at Camden-Rockport Middle School. 

Registration is now open for what organizers are heralding as two days of great racing on Penobscot Bay, festive parties, the annual youth regatta and the Parade of Sail around Camden Harbor.…

WARREN — A course being offered next month in Warren will provide certification to become a United States Soccer Federation referee, providing the opportunity to referee contests played under USSF…

Busline League middle school basketball action continued Feb. 8-9 across the Midcoast with Busline League semifinals in full swing. 

8th girls:…

BANGOR — A trio of basketball stars from the Midcoast have been announced as members of the 2023 induction class into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame. 

Christina Strong, Scott Graffam and…

Fastest time: 10.10 seconds

CAMDEN — The chute took a new path this year, dumping toboggan racers into bales of hay instead of the Hosmer Pond ice, and it was a shorter, gentler descent down side of Ragged Mountain. But no…

Busline League middle school basketball action continued Thursday, Feb. 2 across the Midcoast.

Below are the results reported to the sports department. Stats can be sent by email: …

Busline League middle school basketball action continued Wednesday, Feb. 1 across the Midcoast.

Below are the results reported to the sports department. Stats can be sent by email: …

The Five Town CSD School Board's Ad Hoc Turf Field/Facilities Committee has put together a brief survey to solicit input from the community living in the Five Town CSD school district…

Undeterred by whatever Mother Nature tosses up, U.S. Toboggan Nationals to get underway

CAMDEN — At first, the winter was too warm and Hosmer Pond froze, melted, froze and melted again, making it too unsafe to even think about running toboggans over it. So, volunteers and staff the…

Busline League middle school basketball action continued Monday, Jan. 30 across the Midcoast.

Below are the results reported to the sports department. Stats can be sent by email: …

BRUNSWICK — The Belfast indoor track and field team traveled Friday, Jan. 27 to Brunswick to compete in a KVAC meet at Bowdoin College. 

Girls Team…

Belfast, Medomak Valley, Mount View also participated

AUGSTA — Wrestling teams from around the state, including five from the Midcoast, competed Saturday, Jan. 28 for the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference championships at Cony High School. 

Camden Area Youth Sailing Program (CAYSP) will open online enrollment for summer 2023 programs on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

CAYSP offers a variety of sailing and water…

Busline League middle school basketball action continued Thursday, Jan. 26 across the Midcoast.

Below are the results reported to the sports department. Stats can be sent by email: …

Space is still available in the four remaining sea kayak pool sessions at the Boothbay Region YMCA. The Maine Association of Sea Kayak Guides and Instructors (MASKGI) has been…

BELFAST — The Belfast indoor track and field team traveled Saturday, Jan. 21 to Brunswick to compete in a KVAC meet at Bowdoin College. 

 

GORHAM — The Oceanside and Medomak Valley indoor track and field teams traveled Thursday, Jan. 19 to compete in a KVAC meet at the University of Southern Maine. 

 

Busline League middle school basketball action continued Thursday, Jan. 19 across the Midcoast.

Below are the results reported to the sports department. Stats can be sent by email: …

The Busline League basketball season continued Wednesday, Jan. 18 for the Camden-Rockport and Troy Howard basketball teams. 

Below are the results reported to the sports department. Stats…

‘looking forward to meeting practitioners’ needs’

ROCKLAND — New Trekkers Training Director Diane Sternberg would rather see 10 minutes into the future rather than 150 years, if she had to choose.

“Knowing what will happen in the future…

ROCKPORT — An annual tournament to remember and honor Theodore Hedstrom will be held at MidCoast Recreation Center, in Rockport, the weekend of March 31. Theodore lost his life at the age of 14 in…

PORTLAND — The Oceanside high school wrestling program traveled Saturday, Jan. 14 to compete in the Zeb Leavitt Invitational at Cheverus.  

Oceanside placed sixth in the tournament with 97.…

WARREN — The PITCH will be hosting a baseball clinic Feb. 4 and Feb. 11 with instructors Mike and Paul MacDonald. 

Little League players will attend from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Babe Ruth…