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…
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Island Institute /Pendleton Yacht Yard partnership part of a larger effort to electrify Maine’s working waterfront
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…
Former blueberry processing facility now supports multiple farmer initiatives
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…
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…
PORT CLYDE – Herring Gut Coastal Science Center has announced the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: Susan Lewis Baines, Catherine Bevier and Maureen Cragin.
Herring…
BELFAST — City of Belfast nomination papers are available from July 27 through September 7, 2023 for the following open seats:
1-Mayor…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
It’s almost a law of physics that smaller cars should be fun-ner to drive. Or why bother? As the smallest of the Mazda Motor Corporation’s three more-upscale crossover…
In 2020, a swimmer was killed by a white shark off Harpswell Cove. The encounter was unusual — Maine’s first fatal shark attack — but the media was abuzz. As white shark sightings have increased…
Maine Department of Labor lists its upcoming August no-cost safety trainings.
Upcoming classes:
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tours of the navy ship as well as local coast guard
ROCKLAND — The USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) will anchor in Rockland Harbor for the 76th Maine Lobster Festival. The ship was last in Rockland for the 63rd Maine Lobster Festival.
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MATINICUS — Harbor Road will be closed Tuesday, July 25, from 3 to 5 p.m., for road maintenance from the Brodis’ house to Craig Macleods property.
disability, ableism, and inclusion
ROCKLAND — Youth mentoring organization Trekkers is now certified to run mentoring programs, activities, and events that are inclusive to youth, volunteers, and staff with disabilities, after a…
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center welcomes Rachel Picone, DNP, FNP-C, WHNP-BC, AAHIVS, to the Pen Bay Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases team. Picone is accepting new primary care patients…
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center welcomes Elisabeth Frederick, CNM, to the Pen Bay Women’s Health team.
As a certified nurse midwife, Frederick provides care before, during and after…
Oysthers Raw Bar & Bubbly opens in Bath
BATH—Captain Angus McGregor Crosby was a lobsterman since he was 14 on Georgetown Island before he died unexpectedly in 2021. His daughters, Lauren Crosby, 29, and Sadia Crosby, 28, each had her…
seeking volunteers to help glean the fields
ROCKPORT — “The ‘Blues’ will be ready early again this year,” said Coastal Mountains Land Trust, in a news release.
CMLT invites the public to participate in its 21st annual free blueberry…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
If you’re confused about why Mazda offers two compact crossover SUVs with two rows of seats, the CX-5 and the CX-50, you’re not alone. The extra zero in the badge seems to…
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital welcome Salma Batool-Anwar, MD, to their Hospitalist Services teams.
As part of the Hospitalist Services team, Dr. Batool…
THOMASTON — “Celebrated self-taught artist James Zoller has once again demonstrated his generous spirit by donating the proceeds from his recent exhibit, "Life in Color," at the Craignair Gallery…
DAMARISCOTTA — Coastal Kids Preschool, in Damariscotta, announces that long-time CKP teacher Sara Larson has become the school’s special education coordinator.
Larson has worked at Coastal…
Rockland Rotary president Tena Wallace presented Walker C. Hutchins of Rockland with Rockland Rotary’s 2023 Community Person of the Year Award at the annual Change of Command Banquet on June 29.…
Dr. David Pier presents a generous check to Rockland Rotary President Tena Wallace in the amount of $1,600 from Mount Pleasant Dental Care for Rockland Rotary’s Inclusive Playground Project.
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Rockland Rotary president Tena Wallace presented Ferolyn Curtis with the Rotarian of the Year Award at the annual Change of Command Banquet, June 29.
The ‘Rotarian of the Year’ award is …
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
This May, the R/V Bowditch set sail on its maiden voyage, providing 16 Maine high school students with hands-on research experience as part of Bigelow Laboratory’s Keller BLOOM program. A…
News from UMaine
Our blue planet is becoming greener, which may indicate that climate change is reshaping surface ocean ecosystems, according to a global study co-authored by a University of Maine…
works can be read by the authors, or by local actors
ROCKLAND — People of all ages are invited to submit an original sea story for the Strand Theatre’s Sea Story Slam, taking place on Friday, August 11, at 6 p.m., as part of the Strand’s “Sea Story …
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
Two things stand out on this new (2024 model year) Impreza trim level: the RS badges and the big touchscreen. The badges lead to disappointment; the screen is a welcome…
CAMDEN – After days — nay weeks —of clammy, rainy, foggy, and generally crummy weather, a break in the yuck Saturday…
ROCKLAND — As attendees dedicated 17 new tiles in a ceremony, July 9, 2023, organizers of the Mid Coast Maine Area Veterans Memorial announced that ideas are being discussed for an additional…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
“Moderation” and “balance” are not terms normally applied to Detroit muscle cars, but—after a mere 50 years or so—Dodge has achieved a form of motoring Zen here. Not a…
ROCKAND – An artist is proposing to raze a Rockland structure in favor of a Live+Work model of affordable housing.
Sally Levi and Dominic Turgeon, of Badhus LLC, wish to tear down 25 Oak…
ST. GEORGE — Seal Harbor Road, also known as Route 73, will be closed to through traffic beginning Monday, July 10, due to the replacement of the Jones Brook culvert.
The road closure will…
Nicole Moore’s Maine Produce Alliance is a chef’s and home cook’s dream
LIBERTY— From 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Nicole Moore, a first-generation Liberty farmer, does not stop working. Most farmers understand that lifestyle already, but Moore has more on her plate than just…
“the first hospital in Maine to be recognized at the highest level”
PORTLAND — Maine Emergency Medical System for Children (Maine EMS-C) is recognizing Maine Medical Center (MMC) as the first hospital in Maine to achieve the “Maine Always Ready for Children”…
Featuring farmers, food manufacturers, artisans, and a food truck
ROCKPORT—A group of farmers, food manufacturers, artisans, and even a food truck have started a new farmer’s market at the former…
“That little Mustang out there is an animal,” said Thomaston Police Chief Tim Hoppe.
A year old, and ripened with 14,000 miles of maturity as of Jan. 30, Thomaston PD’s little electric car…
FREEDOM — The Lost Kitchen announces the launch of the Freedom Farmers’ Market at The Lost Kitchen as part of its ongoing effort to support Maine-based producers and growers and the communities…
Two served Curtis Island and the third never saw the Island
Fog bells have always been an essential navigational aid for seafarers. For 136 years, a fog…
CAMDEN – Superintendent Maria Libby of Five Town CSD / MSAD 28 is hosting a new podcast series that shares informal conversations from within public education.
In ‘Super Story: Inside…
UNION — Paving will begin Thursday, June 29 and Friday, June 30 for Marrs Hill Road, Sunk Haze, and Brooks Road, in Union.
“Exact timing is up to the contractor, but there will be some…
OHTM’s executive director passed Lake Michigan
Several years ago, Owls Head Transportation Museum’s new executive director, John Bottero, set a bucket list goal to cycle across America from Portland to Portland to see the vast country under…
Maine Department of Labor announces its July 2023 schedule for no-cost safety trainings.
Upcoming classes:
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repairing water infrastructure damage
WASHINGTON — Knox and Waldo counties are among six Maine counties where grants are now available to help rural and Tribal communities repair water infrastructure damaged by presidentially-declared…
CAMDEN — A month ago, just as prep work for the boating season was underway and divers were under water inspecting moorings, a 30-foot-sailboat was discovered on the floor of Camden Harbor, in…
Opinionated at any speed . . . Silvio Calabi
First, a note: After the Mercedes-Benz EQS 580, I promised a review…
“There’s always the need for more counters, especially in the northern part of the state”
Early Saturday morning in mid July, on the shores of hundreds of Maine lakes, people are getting coffee and tea, studying maps, prepping their boats, dusting off binoculars, and meeting up with…
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center is pleased to welcome Michael Case, PA-C; Christine Hawxhurst, PA-C; Craig Urwin, PA-C; and William Robert Walker, PA-C, to the PBMC Walk-in Care team.
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“All the recipient agencies made an appeal for more volunteers from the community”
BELFAST — The Belfast Rotary Club donated $15,500 on June 21 to ten local food pantries and cupboards, a soup kitchen and other local agencies that provide Belfast area children, families and…
BELFAST — Tony McKim, President and CEO of First National Bank, joined Jennifer Boyton, Belfast Branch Manager, and other staff met at the Waldo County YMCA(WCY) to present a check for $5,000.…
a current wait list of 80 infants and young toddlers
ROCKPORT — The Penobscot Bay YMCA’s Child Care Program has been awarded $54,500 from the Maine Child Care Infrastructure Grant Program by the State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services…
