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Set sail for 28th annual Camden Windjammer Festival, Sept. 1 - 2
Mon, 08/28/2023 - 1:45am

CAMDEN — Set sail for Camden this Labor Day weekend, Sept. 1-2, 2023, when the harbor will once again fill with the sails and masts of windjammers and schooners. Friday, Sept. 1, brings the launch of Camden’s 28th annual maritime celebration, the Camden Windjammer Festival, which features the largest gathering of windjammers in the northeast. The festival offers two days of family-friendly events, spirited competition and nautical activities, a combination that one can only experience on Labor...
Smooth start, ‘really smooth’ ride for Wiscasset-Bath Coastliner rail trips
Sun, 08/27/2023 - 7:30pm

Saturday morning, Wiscasset’s Jan Flowers said she and husband Larry had just seen “things we never get to see from the road ... Beautiful, lot of pines, we saw the backs of houses that we’ve never seen! It was great. I loved it,” she said after stepping off the one-car Coastliner train in Bath. They were on the first run out of Wiscasset on a three-round trip day for the self-propelled train with which Midcoast Railservice has started passenger rail on Maine Department of Transportation’s...
a social entrepreneurial internship
Teen Ag to lead free tours of their food bank garden at Erickson Fields Preserve
Sun, 08/27/2023 - 8:00am

ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s Teen Ag Crew will lead free tours of their food bank garden at Erickson Fields Preserve, 164 West Street in Rockport. The tour will be one-hour long and start at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, September 20. Attendees will learn about the Teen Agricultural Crew, a social entrepreneurial internship where a crew of teens ages 14-18 raise vegetables naturally for the local food system, including food pantries and public schools. Under the guidance of MCHT staff and...
UPDATE: Steuben lobsterman’s body recovered in Addison
Fri, 08/25/2023 - 8:45am

UPDATE: On Aug. 25, Maine Dept. of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher issued the following statement: “We received confirmation yesterday from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner that the body recovered near Addison on August 21 was Tylar Michaud. “I’m grateful for the tremendous outpouring of support that followed Tylar’s disappearance. The efforts of all who joined in the difficult search were unprecedented. Many agencies and individuals devoted countless hours to this search. It...
Finding Our Voices freedom-funding tops $100,000
Thu, 08/24/2023 - 6:00pm

More than $100,000 has been distributed from Finding Our Voices to bring safety, freedom, and comfort to Maine women and children survivors of domestic abuse through the group’s Get Out Stay Out Fund. According to Patrisha McLean, president/founder of the grassroots survivor-powered nonprofit, in two years $113,640 was disbursed to 184 women from every county in Maine, about 80 percent of whom are moms of young children. The money has mostly funded shelter, car, legal, utility, and food...
‘We have constant requests for spaces in which to conduct business calls, online meetings, and work areas’
Camden Public Library awarded grant through "Remote Work through Libraries" initiative
Wed, 08/23/2023 - 5:00pm
CAMDEN — The Camden Public Library has been awarded funding to support “Remote Work through Libraries” through a grant from the Maine State Library. The grant will be used to create remote-working spaces within the third-floor Reading Room. “We have constant requests for spaces in which to conduct business calls, online meetings, and work areas,” said Nikki Maounis, Camden Public Library Executive Director, in a news release. “With the help of this grant we are finally able to build the...
Why don’t they learn about our town before they move here, try to change us?
Owls Head Select Board airs the complaints they receive, the challenges of volunteer government
Wed, 08/23/2023 - 3:15pm

OWLS HEAD — Owls Head Select Board member Linda Post, who has lived in this area all of her life, and in Owls Head for 50 years, can understand why people move here – the harbor, the airport, the small-town life. “We’ve had traditions for a hundred years,” said Post. Yet, “it seems like they come here and they think they should tell us how to run things.” This seems to happen more and more, she said. Two of the three current Select Board members recently vented some of their frustrations...
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
Alfa Romeo Tonale Veloce EAWD
Tue, 08/22/2023 - 9:00pm

It’s another of those age-related disconnects that crop up more and more often: People in their 20s and 30s don’t know the Alfa brand. And a vanishingly small handful of them wonder why the name is Alfa and not Alpha, the first letter of the Greek (ahem) alphabet. Well, for starters, it’s not a Greek company; it’s Italian. Of course. ALFA is an acronym for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili , which means, oddly enough, Anonymous, or unknown, Fabricator of Automobiles in Lombardy...
Fishermen indicted in federal court for alleged fraud, violation of herring laws face September trial
Tue, 08/22/2023 - 10:45am

PORTLAND – A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 23 in U.S. District Court regarding trial scheduling and a motion to continue for the fishermen and seafood dealers who were indicted in 2022 with conspiracy, mail fraud, and obstruction of justice in connection with a multi-year scheme to sell unreported Atlantic herring and falsify fishing records. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Sept. 5. The trial is anticipated for September and expected to last two weeks. Named as...
Appoints Simon Griffiths as Successor to CEO
Camden National names successor for retiring Greg Dufour
Mon, 08/21/2023 - 9:45pm

CAMDEN — The Board of Directors of Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ: CAC) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Camden National Bank, announced Aug. 21 the appointment of Simon Griffiths as successor to current President and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Dufour, effective December 31. Griffiths, 50, will join Camden National on or around November 20, 2023, as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer. He will become President and CEO of Camden National, as well as a member of the...
The Rankin’s Difference will remain the same
Two longtime Camden family businesses forge new future as Rankin’s becomes part of Viking Lumber
Sun, 08/20/2023 - 11:45pm

Rankin’s Hardware and Supply, on Union Street in Camden, counts amongst the friendliest stores in the Midcoast. Customers are greeted as they walk in the door, with a “Can I help you?” or if they are regulars, a familiar greeting by name. It has been that way for a long time, a legacy that dates back to when Frank Rankin was running the place. Or maybe it started with his parents before him, who established the hardware and lumber store in 1952. Some of the Rankin’s favorite faces are missing...
MaineCF grants help strengthen Waldo County 2023 projects and nonprofits
Sun, 08/20/2023 - 12:00pm

WALDO COUNTY — Nearly $90,000 in Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Waldo County in 2023. The eight grants through MaineCF’s Community Building Grant Program include $59,435 recommended by the Waldo County Committee and three additional grants totaling $30,000 from donor-advised funds. 2023 Grants from the Waldo County Committee: Belfast Farmers Market , to increase access to the purchase and sale of local...
MaineCF grants help strengthen Knox County 2023 projects and nonprofits
Sun, 08/20/2023 - 12:00pm

KNOX COUNTY — More than $62,000 in Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Knox County in 2023. The nine grants through MaineCF’s Community Building Grant Program include $57,416 recommended by the Knox County Committee and one additional grant totaling $5,000 from a donor-advised fund. 2023 Grants by the Knox County Committee Isle au Haut Community Development Corporation , to study the feasibility of building a...
Penobscot Bay's newest marine research station opens on Hurricane Island
Fri, 08/18/2023 - 1:45pm

On Aug. 5, more than 100 attendees gathered on Hurricane Island to join in a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Maine’s newest field research station, a carbon-negative facility for marine science on Penobscot Bay and one of two offshore research stations in the Gulf of Maine. The Gulf of Maine waters are warming faster than 99% of ocean’s worldwide, but there is little data to shed light on the causes and consequences of these changing ocean temperatures. The Hurricane Island Field Research Station...
the potential to grow more than three tons of greens, lettuce, herbs, flowers, and root vegetables each year
AIO Food Pantry partnership raises more than $6,000 to implement year-round hydroponic growing
Thu, 08/17/2023 - 6:30pm

ROCKLAND — AIO Food and Energy Assistance announces the successful beginning of a fundraising campaign for the implementation of year-round hydroponic growing. This campaign is the result of a partnership with, and being spearheaded by, a newly forming nonprofit organization, Long Table Wellness, with a mission to inspire community; ensure year-round, fresh food; and promote planetary and personal wellness through innovations in the integration of ecologically-designed agricultural systems,...
“What is one idea you hope people who work with youth bring forward?”
Trekkers Training Institute coordinators share Q & A responses for recent 4-session workshop
Thu, 08/17/2023 - 1:30pm

ROCKLAND — This summer, Trekkers Training Institute (TTI) offered a 4-part training series on Youth Engagement. The sessions were open to the public and offered on a sliding scale. With the sessions complete, Communications and Impact Manager Tess Valdepenas sat down with Diane Sternberg, Trekkers Training Director, to reflect on the series. Tess: The participants had various roles in engaging youth (ie. at work, as a family member, as a mentor, etc.). Do you think everyone who interacts with...
Midcoast entrepreneurs
Camden’s ‘Lazy Jack II’ sails with a new captain at the helm
Wed, 08/16/2023 - 7:00pm

CAMDEN - Captain Gus Kodros is originally from Alton, Illinois When asked what brought him to Camden, he says with a wry smile, “a boat.” Kodros recently purchased the Schooner Lazy Jack II from its builder Sean O’Connor, of Thomaston. O’Connor operated the Lazy Jack out of Camden Harbor for many years, offering day sails to locals and tourists. Kodros said it was the Nina and Pinta that originally attracted him to Camden Harbor. “I took one look around...
More Than $22,000 to Northern New England Nonprofit Organizations
Rotary Club of Rockland among recipients of bank charitable donations
Wed, 08/16/2023 - 1:15pm

ROCKLAND — Bar Harbor Bank & Trust employees recently presented more than $22,000 in donations collected through the Bank’s employee-driven charitable giving program, Casual for a Cause, to seven nonprofit organizations serving Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont residents. The recipients of the donations for Q2 2023 are: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bath/Brunswick, Down East Family YMCA, Mount Desert Island YMCA, and Rotary Club of Rockland in Maine; Lebanon Opera House and New London Barn...
Tyson Thornton named Vice President of Operations for PBMC, WCGH
Tue, 08/15/2023 - 1:45pm

ROCKPORT and BELFAST — Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital welcome Tyson Thornton, PharmD, BCPS, MBA-H, FACHE, as their new vice president of operations. Thornton joined the team on Monday, Aug. 14. Thornton comes to PBMC and WCGH from Northern Light Health, where he served as vice president of Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville and Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Health (SVH) in Pittsfield. In that role, he was responsible for pharmacy, facilities, security,...
Volunteers, friends of Owls Head Transportation Museum view new 20,000 sq ft workshop space
Tue, 08/15/2023 - 1:15pm

OWLS HEAD — On Thursday, Aug. 10, volunteers and friends of the Owls Head Transportation Museum were treated to the first look at a brand new, 20,000 sq ft workshop space on the museum's campus. The completion of the building is one of many planned construction projects which are part of the museum's 12.5 million capital campaign, Inspiring Tomorrow's Pioneers. The newly built restoration shops are designed to accommodate expanding aircraft and auto collections and integrate space for a wood...
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
Acura Integra Type S
Tue, 08/15/2023 - 11:15am

How do I love thee, new-for-2024-and-available-only-in-North-America Acura Integra Type S? Let me count the ways . . . Engineering: Up front, the Type S has a 2-litre, four-cylinder engine turbocharged to make 320 horsepower and 310 pound-feet of torque on premium gas. The motor drives only the front wheels, but standing on the throttle fires the Type S ahead rather than yanking it from side to side; Honda has conquered the dreaded FWD torque-steer monster through its dual-axis front strut...
New Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital to open August 23
Mon, 08/14/2023 - 1:00pm

BLUE HILL — Wednesday, August 23, 2023, Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital will open its doors to a brand-new facility. On move day, patients will be safely transported from the old hospital to new private rooms facing Blue Hill Bay. All services will remain on campus, with some departments moving to the Sussman Medical Center. Parts of the campus will continue to be a construction zone, with fencing in place for safety. During this time, patients are encouraged to arrive early, to ensure they...
a young entrepreneur working sunrise to 10 p.m., and hooked on the joys and perils
Rockport lobsterman Sadie Samuels to speak at Camden Yacht Club, Aug. 23
Sun, 08/13/2023 - 3:00pm

CAMDEN — How did a young girl from Searsmont become a professional lobsterman? Find out during a free seminar Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m., at the Camden Yacht Club. Only eight percent of the Mainers with commercial lobster fishing licenses are women, according to CYC, in a news release. Sadie Samuels, who captains the F/V Must Be Nice out of Rockport Harbor, is among them. Samuels, who describes herself as “a little kid who always wanted to go fishing,” learned the trade from her...
the “virtual” class
Rockland Scholarship Regatta (Aug.19) adds new twist to help raise funds for area youth sailing programs
Sun, 08/13/2023 - 2:30pm

ROCKLAND — Partnering with the Sail, Power & Steam Museum, the Rockland Yacht Club Scholarship Regatta will be held Saturday, Aug. 19 with boats from around the Midcoast. New this year is the opportunity for everyone to raise money, whether sailing in the regatta or not, with the addition of a “virtual” class. “We’re thrilled to be adding this option,” said Patti Spaulding, RYC Vice Commodore, in a news release. “We know there are people who cannot race this year for one reason or another,...
targeted resources, services, and physical space to support remote and hybrid workers, as well as business owners and entrepreneurs
Rockland Public Library awarded funds through “Remote Work through Libraries” initiative
Sat, 08/12/2023 - 5:45pm

ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library has been awarded funding from The Maine State Library and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development as part of the more than $1.7 million in Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan “Remote Work through Libraries” initiative. The library is one of thirty-nine public libraries across the state which received funding to be used over the next three years to establish or expand services for Maine’s remote workforce. This includes targeted resources,...
extraordinary philanthropic contributions, leadership, and friendship
United Midcoast Charities event to recognize a community member with new Sani Wolf Fogel Award
Thu, 08/10/2023 - 6:45pm

CAMDEN — United Midcoast Charities’ summer event will be held Tuesday, August 22, at 4:30 p.m., at Megunticook Golf Club, in Rockport. This year’s gathering celebrates the life of friend and longtime board member Sani Wolf Fogel. In her honor, UMC will introduce the annual Sani Award, to recognize extraordinary philanthropic contributions, leadership, and friendship within the Midcoast community. Attendees will include honored guests, community and business leaders, UMC donors, UMC founders and...
PBMC recognized for providing high quality stroke care
Thu, 08/10/2023 - 6:30pm

ROCKPORT — The Pen Bay Stroke Program has been recognized nationally with the 2023 Get With the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award and the Target Stroke Elite Honor Roll Performance Achievement Award by the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA). The Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award represents 24 consecutive months of at least 85% compliance with seven stroke performance achievement measures and at least 75% compliance with four-of-six stroke...
2023 Project Canopy Assistance Planting and Maintenance Grant awarded to City of Belfast
Thu, 08/10/2023 - 6:30pm

BELFAST — The City of Belfast has been awarded an $10,000 2023 Project Canopy Assistance Planting & Maintenance Grant through the U.S.D.A Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program CFDA 10:675. T his grant supported the extension of tree planting along the City of Belfast Rail Trail as well as locations in the Belfast downtown area. The Belfast Public Works Department worked with a local Arborist, and the City Tree Committee and local volunteers to implement this planting project...
planning a special Welcome Weekend
Adas Yoshuron Synagogue welcomes new rabbi
Wed, 08/09/2023 - 2:30pm

ROCKLAND — Adas Yoshuron Synagogue welcomes Rabbi Lorin Troderman as its new spiritual leader. Rabbi Troderman joins Adas Yoshuron as the fourth rabbi in the synagogue’s recent history. The 111-year-old institution is the only synagogue in Midcoast, and represents a wide range of approaches to Judaism. Board President David Statman shared his hopes in a news release: “Our new rabbi, Lorin Troderman, respects and celebrates our diversity. He wants to hear from everyone to learn what each of us...
Finding Our Voices awarded $10,000 from Maine Community Foundation
Wed, 08/09/2023 - 2:30pm

Finding Our Voices has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Maine Community Foundation. The money is “to help bridge the gaps in support for Maine’s women domestic violence survivors," according to Patrisha McLean, founder/president of the grassroots, survivor-powered nonprofit, in a news release. “This very generous grant from such a distinguished entity as the Maine Community Foundation affirms our ground-breaking efforts and will bring light to the far too many women in our state who are...
Summer takes a swim too far
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 7:45pm

Last Tuesday morning, July 25, an overly ambitious puppy named Summer – an eclectic mix of Beagle, Golden Retriever, Great Dane, and Hound — was playing with other dogs at Laite Beach. Summer spotted a duck with young ones in the water and began swimming towards them. The dog did not respond to calls from the owner and disappeared amongst the many boats moored far from shore. It was clear to all that the duck was intent on leading this dog astray, perhaps away from her young. A quick cell phone...
Walk-in Clinic
PBMC sells Knox Center, Bok Building properties, to lease back some space
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 6:30pm

Pen Bay Medical Center has sold the Knox Center and the Bok Building in Rockland to Knox Center LLC, a Rockland-based company. Knox Center, at 6 White Street, previously housed a long-term nursing care facility. PBMC closed the Knox Center during the week of July 17 when residents were transferred to the independently owned Breakwater Commons, a just completed nursing care facility off Old County Road in Rockland. The Bok Building currently is home to the PBMC Walk-in Care practice as well as...
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
Chevrolet Trax 2RS
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 12:00pm

For 2024, General Motors wiped the slate clean of the previous Trax, which largely labored in obscurity from 2013 to 2022, and started over again. Much more successfully, too. With a starting price of just $21,495, the Trax is now a bottom-feeder only by definition; the reborn Trax drives like a grown-up SUV—a subcompact SUV, that is—and it needs make no excuses for itself. Well, maybe just one. The old Trax called to mind a golf cart with full sheet metal. The handsome new Trax looks like a...
Penobscot Bay YMCA Annual Boat Auction event comes to an end
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 8:30am

The Penobscot Bay YMCA said Aug. 7 that it will no longer hold its annual Boat Auction at the Y in Rockport. For 24 years, this major fundraising event helped keep the cost of summer camp affordable to all participants, including scholarships for those families who need it the most., the YMCA said, in a news release. Scholarships have provided over 10,000 camper weeks, as well as financial assistance to families in the community. A number of evolving challenges led the Y Board and the all-...
Volunteers wanted for food security work in Knox County
Sun, 08/06/2023 - 6:30pm

KNOX COUNTY — Six community organizations serving residents in Knox County are seeking volunteers for projects to increase access to nutritious food for active and healthy lives. AIO Food & Energy Assistance is seeking volunteers at its warehouse in Rockland. AIO’s mission is to respectfully and compassionately support those in need in Knox County with food and energy assistance. For more information and to register, contact Keisha Beal ( keisha@aiofoodpantry.org ) and...
Marshall Point Lighthouse is awaiting a replacement light after lightning strike
See a rare empty lighthouse tower on National Lighthouse Day, August 7
Fri, 08/04/2023 - 7:15pm

PORT CLYDE—The lighthouse made famous by Forrest Gump has hit a setback. On a rainy evening last week, Diane Heath, the publicity coordinator for Marshall Point Lighthouse was inside the keeper’s house when she noticed a squall kick up around the property. “The wind started blowing, the flagpole was sort of bent over; which is unusual to see in the summertime–you see that more often in the winter. I went out to take some video in the side garden and then I got a bad feeling and knew I had to...
Rebecca Jacobs to present: “Building Climate Resilience with Native Plant Species”
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District announces 2023 awards recipients
Fri, 08/04/2023 - 5:30pm

HOPE — The community is invited to Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s Annual Banquet and Conservation Awards Celebration on Wednesday, Aug. 23, from 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. The banquet will be held at Beaver Lodge, in Hope, with dinner by Megunticook Market from Camden, and homemade pies from D-Zerts by Daphne from Westport Island. Following the awards presentation, the featured speaker will be Rebecca Jacobs, SWCD Program Manager, who will present: “Building Climate Resilience with...
AIO receives John T. Gorman Foundation grant
Fri, 08/04/2023 - 4:30pm

The John T. Gorman Foundation has awarded 83 grants totaling $1.5 million to provide food, shelter, health care, and other essential services to Mainers in need through its 2023 Direct Service Grant Program. AIO Food & Energy Assistance in Rockland has been awarded $20,000. “Basic access to food, housing, and other essentials continues to be a pressing concern for too many Maine people,” said Lauralee Raymond, John T. Gorman Foundation Manager, Special Initiatives, in an AIO news release. “...
view portions of knox county by rail this weekend
New railway service debuts in Rockland this weekend
Thu, 08/03/2023 - 9:00am

ROCKLAND – Midcoast Railservice is beginning rail excursions between Rockland and Brunswick with short debut trips during this week’s Maine Lobster Festival. The company, operating under parent company Finger Lakes Railway, is one of many proposals over the years to bring rail passengers back to the Rockland tracks. The last passenger service was conducted in 2015. George Betke and his Finger Lakes cohorts have been trying to find a way into Rockland since 2019 and are making headway as they...
Wiscasset selectmen
‘Jump start’ of passenger rail to Wiscasset, Rockland
Thu, 08/03/2023 - 8:45am

Passenger rail is returning to Wiscasset with weekend trips planned soon, a Damariscotta man told Wiscasset selectmen Aug. 1. The “Coastliner” Brunswick-Rockland rail line is an “informed experiment,” George Betke said. Betke is a founder and vice president of Midcoast Railservice, which he said leased the line from Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) a year ago. Since then, the trips have carried freight, like recent predecessors’ trains did. “The next step ... is to bring back the...
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
Volvo S60 Recharge AWD Ultimate Black
Tue, 08/01/2023 - 3:30pm

The ever-expanding range of electrified vehicles from Volvo presently includes three battery-only SUVs, two hybrid gas-electric SUVs, two hybrid sedans and one hybrid station wagon, all sold under the name Recharge. All the hybrids are plug-in types, which have larger battery packs than non-plug-in hybrids, for more electric range, and which can be, well, plugged in to recharge their batteries. (Non-plug-in hybrid batteries are recharged by the gas engine while it’s running.) The S60 Recharge...
Rockland, Thomaston, South Thomaston and part of Rockport power outage due to CMP upgrade work
Tue, 08/01/2023 - 3:00pm

ROCKLAND — The disruption of electrical power in Rockland, Thomaston, South Thomaston and a portion of Rockport is due to Central Maine Power work at the Park Street substation in Rockport. There, a CMP crew has been installing new switches and making system upgrades. In doing so, the switch over between transformers caused a malfunction, according to CMP Communications Director Jonathan Breed. The power outage last week in the same vicinity was due to equipment failure, he said, and unrelated...
Motifs, once a Rockland store, reemerges on Camden Wharf
Tue, 08/01/2023 - 1:15pm

CAMDEN—A favorite Rockland store has reemerged in Camden on the Lyman-Morse waterfront boardwalk this summer. Motifs, a boutique specializing in coastal-inspired wares, men’s and women’s fashion, home décor, vintage, and antiques, reopened Memorial Day weekend. The store is run by Paula Jalbert, who has the same exuberant style as she did when we first covered her Rockland location in a 2014 story . Jalbert has been in retail for 40 years having opened her first store in 1981...
Rockland Coast Guard Station to hold open house Aug. 3, 4
Sun, 07/30/2023 - 8:00pm

The U.S. Coast Guard Station Rockland is sponsoring an open house of its facility on Aug. 3 and 4, noon to 4 p.m. In addition to touring the facility and Coast Guard vessels assigned to the Rockland station the Coast Guard Auxiliary robotic boat Coastie, always a hit with young children, will be on hand. The station is located at the end of Tillson Avenue and is within walking distance of the Lobster Festival site. This event provides an opportunity for the public to learn more about the...
new nonprofit is closer to opening its network of temporary community shelters for families facing homelessness
Family Promise of Midcoast Maine receives $15K donation
Sun, 07/30/2023 - 8:00am

BELFAST — Family Promise of MidCoast Maine, a new startup based in Waldo County and serving families experiencing or at risk of homelessness, announced on July 27, the generous support and donation of $15,000 from the Caring Fund of St. Brendan the Navigator Roman Catholic parish. Through the generosity of parishioners at the churches of St. Bernard’s in Rockland, Our Lady of Good Hope in Camden, and St. Francis of Assisi in Belfast, the new nonprofit is closer to opening its network of...
Finding Our Voices survivors join Governor Mills for ceremonial signing
Sun, 07/30/2023 - 8:00am

AUGUSTA — Survivors with Finding Our Voices gathered with Governor Janet T. Mills at the State House on July 25, 2023 for the ceremonial signing of a law bringing safety to domestic abuse survivors. The bill’s legislative sponsor, Rep. Vicki Doudera (D-Camden), was also part of the group. Dezarae Caron, owner of the Nail Junkee nail salon in Auburn, was one of seven attendees who had testified for the bill in front of the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public...
Camden Rotary kicks off cash super raffle
Fri, 07/28/2023 - 5:15pm

CAMDEN — Members of the Camden Rotary Club are selling tickets for their annual Super Raffle to raise funds for grants to nonprofit community service organizations in Knox County and Lincolnville. A drawing Saturday, September 2, at 6 p.m., will bring prizes of $500, $1,000, and $1,500 to the three winners. Ticket holders need not be present to win. Rotarians are selling tickets every Friday and Saturday in front of French & Brawn Market Place in downtown Camden during weekends. The price...
Island Institute /Pendleton Yacht Yard partnership part of a larger effort to electrify Maine’s working waterfront
40HP electric boat launched in Rockland
Fri, 07/28/2023 - 2:45pm

At a gathering in Rockland July 27, Pendleton Yacht Yard, of Islesboro, demonstrated its new fully electric boat, named Take Charge. The boat will be used to demonstrate electric marine propulsion on Maine’s working waterfront in a partnership with Island Institute. “We’re thrilled to be using an electric boat for our business,” said Gabe Pendleton, owner of Pendleton Yacht Yard, in a news release. “We’re just beginning to appreciate the benefits of electric propulsion and look...
Former blueberry processing facility now supports multiple farmer initiatives
Union gets a repurposed building to host pop-up farmers’ markets and storage/utility space
Fri, 07/28/2023 - 1:00pm

UNION—A new Midcoast Farmers Union site at the former Coastal Blueberry Services facility at 61 Common Road is now open to farmers to set up pop-up retail markets and to use the space for storage and/or other functions. T he Midcoast Farmers Alliance ( MFA) was formed by farmers in 2015 with the support of Maine Coast Heritage Trust , which operates Aldermere Farm and Erickson Fields , two working educational farms in the Midcoast. The goal of MFA is to increase the shared supports available to...
Stewardship Education Alliance opens Camden Public Landing Park and Aquarium
Thu, 07/27/2023 - 5:30pm

Members of the board and advisory board of The Stewardship Education Alliance (S.E.A.) announced the opening of a S.E.A. Park at the Camden Public Landing next to the Harbor Master’s building. The project features a 300-gallon marine aquarium along with picnic tables and planters built by students from the Camden Regional High School Hatchery Innovation Center. The lumber they used was recycled from the harbor boardwalk damaged by last December’s ocean storm. The aquarium was...

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Event: Mon, Oct 9 - 10:00 am
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Oil Stick Still Life Painting 11/19

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Speaker Series, Rockland: Dr. Nan Stein of the Wellesley Centers for Women

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Living History with Hank Lunn to share the story of an American Loyalist

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Midcoast Women presents A Mother’s Story: No Conceivable Way Out, Oct. 5

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Once an Outlaw

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Good Trouble Project fundraising concert to benefit local YMCA

Event: Sat, Oct 21 - 7:00 pm
Art in the Stacks exhibit features William Landmesser, Oct 1 - Dec. 31, 2023

Event: Sun, Oct 8 - 1:00 pm
Candle Making Workshop 10/29

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