AUGUSTA — State Representative Bill Pluecker (I-Warren) introduced LD 363, “An Act Regarding the Statute of Limitations for Injuries or Harm Resulting from Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl…
Work
‘Final timetable will be set once we have these issues resolved, but we plan to start later this year’
BELFAST — Despite another round of discussion at the Belfast Zoning Board of Appeals March 12 meeting as to whether the nonprofit Upstream Watch attained standing to contest the city’s permitting…
helping to serve resilient and often marginalized youth
ROCKLAND — Members of Aurora Lodge #50, in Rockland, presented a check for $1000 to Joseph Huffnagel, of The Landing Place.
The Landing Place is a comprehensive youth program serving…
recognizing the substantial impact of trauma while maintaining preparedness, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, response, and recovery
This fall, the University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) begins offering a new graduate level program in the interdisciplinary field of emergency management. The online program will admit its first…
The Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts Fund of the Maine Community Foundation is seeking applications.
The fund supports projects and organizations that promote Maine traditional handcrafts.…
recognizing a gifted, civic-minded young person age 25 or younger
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has announced the launch of the new John Lewis Youth Leadership Award.
Through this award, the Secretary of State's Office will annually recognize one…
beginning March 15, 2021, relaxing some restrictions in the wake of winter peak
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital revises visitors’ policy for hospitals, medical offices and clinics in response to evolving COVID-19 threat PBMC and…
opinionated at any speed
No one walks into a bar, tosses the key to a minivan on the counter and hopes someone asks what he’s driving. But to the extent that a minivan can be a sleek and handsome symbol of personal style…
Town Manager: ‘has the potential to be a really great partnership’
CAMDEN — Informal conversations over the past few years periodically referenced a new marina visualized for Steamboat Landing, in Camden Harbor. On March 9, the idea took public form when Lyman-…
confirm existence of documents before contacting archivists for further research
AUGUSTA — The Maine State Archives has launched its first-ever catalog of its holdings, via the online ArchivesSpace portal at https://archives.maine.gov/…
Thursday, March 25 through April 22, from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., New Ventures Maine is offering My Next Career Move, a free five-week interactive online class designed to enable you to take charge of…
So You Want to Farm in Maine?
University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a seven-session online course for aspiring farmers starting March 29. The class meets twice per week through April 22, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.…
Start Up/Scale Up Grant Program
The Maine Community Foundation’s Start Up/Scale Up Grant Program seeks applications from Maine nonprofit organizations that help new ventures start and grow through programs such as collaborative…
AUGUSTA — For the week ending March 6, the Maine Department of Labor recorded about 1,500 initial claims filed for state unemployment insurance, and 130 initial claims filed for federal Pandemic…
providing meal assistance
ROCKLAND — On March 5, Brothers of the 9th Masonic District presented a check in the amount of $2,100 to Bobby Deetjen, director of the Midcoast School of Technology, in support of the “Angel Fund…
March 10
To celebrate National Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Day on March 10, the Maine Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (MAND) Public Policy Panel has created a series of short videos with…
dramatic increase in Maine overdose deaths since beginning of pandemic
West Bay Rotary is raising money for Mid-Coast Recovery Coalition and you can help.
It is a West Bay Rotary tradition that members donate money for charities and nonprofits by putting money…
AUGUSTA — Maine has been selected as the inaugural cohort of states in the Workforce Innovation Network, the National Governors Association (NGA) and Cognizant U.S. Foundation announced Tuesday.…
eligibility expands to include more small businesses march 10
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A total of 10,040 Maine small employers have been approved for a total of $692,399,551 in forgivable PPP loans since the PPP reopened in January, according to the latest data…
To open for take-out this spring
CAMDEN—Restaurants operating in a pandemic have had to make enormous changes in order to stay afloat. Gabriela Acero and Derek Richard, a couple featured in our recent story “…
CAMDEN — The Select Board in Camden will consider proposals of Lyman-Morse boatbuilder, which is to address, according to the board meeting packet material: “ proposal to upgrade town and private…
Part of Back Cove South Storage Facility Work
PORTLAND — The City of Portland's Back Cove South Storage Facility project is entering its next phase of work, which is to connect the existing utilities (new or replaced) within the intersection…
deadline March 30
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry's (DACF) Bureau of Agriculture seeks Specialty Crop Block Grants (SCBG) program applications from Maine's specialty crop industry to…
The City of Rockland and the Town of Thomaston are among recipients of municipal stream crossing grants awarded by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Maine voters…
Opinionated at any speed
This isn’t your elderly aunt’s E-Class. We’ll get back to that, but first—consider how new cars are introduced to the press these days. Instead of junkets to exotic locales, where we put the “…
advocate for education, family rights, hotline volunteer for domestic violence and abuse
Mary Cathcart, a senior policy associate at the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, has received the 2021 Minerva Award.
The Minerva award is presented annually by …
Full 60-hour highway closure anticipated in autumn 2021 or spring 2022
PORTLAND — The Maine Department of Transportation is beginning construction work on the replacement of the Veranda Street Bridge in Portland. The bridge carries I-295 over Veranda Street. The…
webinar for home gardeners
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners about caring for fruit trees Wednesday, March 24, from 6 - 7…
New Hope for Women received 2,707 calls in 2019 and 3,263 in 2020
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, Lucky the Duck and West Bay Rotarian Ray Fink presented a $1,143.53 check to New Hope for Women Executive Director Rebekah Paredes.
West Bay Rotarians donate…
AUGUSTA — For the week ending February 27, the Maine Department of Labor recorded about 1,700 initial claims filed for state unemployment insurance, and 200 initial claims filed for federal…
Swanville’s community has their grocery store back again
SWANVILLE—A beloved grocery store has been rebuilt after a car accident…
AUGUSTA — Senator Chip Curry, D-Belfast, introduced Wednesday a bill to help self-employed workers and independent contractors in Maine by creating an unemployment system to help them during an…
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Committee on Marine Resources approved Wednesday a bill from Senator David Miramant, D-Camden, to support Maine’s lobster industry.
LD 338, “An Act To Amend the…
KeyBank is closing five branches in Maine, including its Camden location at the Camden Market Square, on Route 1 (Elm Street) at the Rockport town line.
“KeyBank has recently notified some…
‘proven to cause brain damage in children and known to harm the environment and wildlife’
AUGUSTA — House District 94 Representative Vicki Doudera, D-Camden, testified Tuesday before the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry to introduce a bill to ban the nerve…
performing unskilled tasks that are difficult, dangerous, or unattainable for senior citizens
Home maintenance is often an obstacle to being able to age in place. Small tasks which were once a simple part of maintaining a home and a property become difficult, dangerous or even unattainable…
MIDCOAST — Summit Natural Gas, the subsidiary of the Colorado-based Summit Utilities, Inc., that wanted to build a gas line through Belfast and down Route 1 to Rockland, investing $90 million into…
Deadline May 1, 2021
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust is currently accepting applications from high school seniors for the Bank’s Career Technology Education Scholarship.
The $1,000 scholarship is awarded to income-…
creating ‘brave spaces’
Steve Becton, chief officer of equity and inclusion for Facing History and Ourselves, joined a recent Camden Rotary Club meeting to speak about…
Karin Look, whose distinguished career in U.S. national security includes service in the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of State, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, this…
Ensuring Sustainable, Vibrant Coastal Communities; Restoring Coastal Habitats; Preparing for coastal storms, erosion and flooding, coastal hazards
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's Municipal Planning Assistance Program seeks applications for a new round of Coastal Community Grants for FY 2022. The grants are…
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Planning Board meeting that was scheduled for Tuesday, March 2 has been postponed until Tuesday, March 9, at 5:15 p.m.
There will be a site visit at 165 Talbot Ave…
ROCKLAND – As Rockland’s detached accessory apartment ordinance reverts back to First Reading and a proposed subdivision on Talbot Avenue returns before the Planning Board, the City of Rockland…
opinionated at any speed
In other English-speaking countries, a full-size SUV is a Range Rover, which fills many British country roads from hedgerow to hedgerow. But here in XXL-land, it takes something like this Lincoln…
deadline April 30, 2021
ST. GEORGE — The St. George Business Alliance plans to award one $1,000 scholarship to a graduating high school senior from the Town of St. George in the spring of 2021. The student and one parent…
no experience required, just a desire to be outdoors, work hard in a team, and learn new skills
ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Heritage Trust, a state-wide land conservation organization, is offering teens ages 14-18 paid internships through the Teen Ag Crew program at Erickson Fields Preserve,…
Learn to differentiate yourself from the masses with specific, tangible, applicable strategies during these casual lunch-and-learn sessions
Registration is open for an online professional development program, Career Transformation Lunch-and-Learn Series, offered Fridays, April 9, 16, and 23, through the University of Maine Hutchinson…
help at night to look for spawning smelt or during day to look for their tiny eggs
Rainbow smelt are one of Maine’s native migratory or sea-run fish populations.
“They are soon headed for a coastal river near you – and we need your help!” said Downeast Salmon Federation,…
Celebrating 40 years of Iconic Christmas Kitten Commercial
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its iconic Christmas Kittens commercial, Bangor Savings Bank has…
KITTERY — The Maine Department of Transportation and its contracting partners will be closing the left travel lanes on both sides of the Piscataqua River (I-95) Bridge on Sunday, February 28.…
