CAMDEN — Heather Quesnel, MS, RN, NEA-BC, has joined Quarry Hill as the Camden senior-living community’s director of nursing.
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Work
From small bite to large slice
ROCKPORT — During the next Rockport Planning Board meeting, board members will review an application for a new takeout pizza site on West Street. The applicant is a familiar name to many in the…
Brandon Yeaton, Matt Ripley, winners of Annual Lobster Trap Tree Raffle
ROCKLAND— With 50 brand new traps made from Brooks Trap Mill or $2,250 cash riding on the winning ticket, two random names were pulled out of a bag at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 3 for the Lobster…
Leaders and Luminaries
BELFAST — This October, Camden National Bank recognized six outstanding nonprofit board leaders with their 2018 Leaders and Luminaries Awards and $22,000 in grants to the winners’ respective…
Central Maine Power Co., a subsidiary of the Spanish company AVANGRID Inc. (NYSE: AGR), circulated a Dec. 27 press release to media in order to tell customers about higher bills coming.
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ROCKLAND — The Maine Windjammer Association announced winners in the 2018 Annual Photo Contest Dec. 26. Each year, windjammer passengers and…
Equinox Guiding Service takes people up on vertical adventures
CAMDEN— Thanks to the Banff Film Fest, many equate ice climbing with hanging by ice picks on a trecherous overhang of frozen water.
“People have described ice climbing as this really…
Maine Maritime Academy’s schooner Bowdoin, the Official Vessel of the State of Maine and a National Historic Landmark, is undergoing hull restoration at Bristol Marine, the Shipyard in…
ROCKPORT — Dr. Jonathan Goss, DDS, and his team have welcomed Dr. Adam L’Italien, DMD, join the practice of Camden Hills Dental Care at 200 West Professional Offices on Route 90 in Rockport.
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Advances to the second competitive round for $100K
BELFAST— Kids Unplugged, a local multi-use indoor play space for all ages, just made the cut in the first competitive pitching round of Greenlight Maine, a TV show that functions as a Maine…
View corridor, channel focus of concerns
ROCKLAND — A group of area residents that has opposed a waterfront redesign along a section of Rockland Harbor by a private company still holds concerns about the plan following a Dec. 12 joint…
ROCKLAND — The Rockland CareerCenter, part of the Maine Department of Labor, and in conjunction with its partners offer a variety of services to help people find employment or upgrade skills and…
For the month of December, we continue our “Shop Local” series to shine the spotlight on local craftspeople who make things by hand. So each week, until Dec. 25, we will bring you this series…
CAMDEN — Six certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and one Activities Department staffer at Quarry Hill in Camden have completed the certification process required by the Maine Department of Health…
Award based on outstanding reviews
CAMDEN — United Midcoast Charities has been designated as a “2018 Top-Rated Nonprofit” by GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user reviews of charities and nonprofits, according to a news…
Store fronts in downtown Rockland, along with a couple displays captured in Waldoboro, shimmer and shine this holiday season.
Sometimes a display requires an entire scene to create an…
Twenty-four Downtown businesses are participating in a little friendly competition to see who has the best holiday window decoration.
In order to determine the winner,…
Beyond The Sea takes over The Red Barn Baking Co. on 47 Bay View
CAMDEN— December is the season of giving and two businesses are making use of the collaborative model of a pop-up shop in a seasonally vacant space.
Beyond The Sea bookshop, which had to…
working to help children of Waldo County get nutritious meals
SEARSPORT — Each year the employees at Hamilton Marine vote for a local charity of their choice to have the company donate money to. It’s the company’s way of giving back to the community.
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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
New research shows that phytoplankton iron storage strategies may determine which species thrive in changing oceans and impact marine food webs, according to a recent paper in the Proceedings of…
‘Only 12 percent of the parcels in Rockland are commercial and industrial’
ROCKLAND — As of Monday, Dec. 10, no business has vocalized wanting to move operations to Pleasant Street; therefore, Rockland City Council has no true feel for whether an ordinance to rezone the…
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Abbie Burgess returned to homeport of Rockland Dec. 12 after a 37-day patrol to the Great Lakes region in support of Operation Fall Retrieve.
During…
AUGUSTA — Maine corporations have recently received misleading solicitation mailings from a business operating under the name Workplace Compliance Services (…
Working waterfront in a residential neighborhood
ROCKLAND — In a move that Councilor Ed Glaser believes might one day send the City of Rockland down “that slope,” four of five councilors voted in favor of continuing the discussion of rezoning 84…
6.7 percent monthly bill increase
In competitive solicitations concluded Dec. 10, the Maine Public Utilities Commission accepted bids and set new prices for standard offer electricity supply for customers of Central Maine Power (…
CAMDEN — The first generation of the Camden municipal website has come to the end of its useful life, and the Select Board unanimously agreed Dec. 4 to overhaul it, contracting with a Troy,…
WALDOBORO — Marcia Benner, of Waldoboro, has recently been promoted to senior vice president, chief administrative officer, at Damariscotta Bank and Trust.
In her new role, Benner will…
ROCKPORT – Maine Sport Outfitters recently completed a comprehensive solar project atop its flagship location in Rockport.
Partnering with SunDog Solar, a local company from Searsport, and…
New research shows that mussels readily take in microplastic pollution fibers from the ocean but quickly flush most of them out again, according to a study by researchers from…
Los Angeles-based Khanlarian Entertainment has optioned Kay Stephens’ 2009 novel, The Ghost Trap, for an independent film.
Stephens’s debut novel tells the story of Jamie Eugley, a…
‘commitment to providing the highest quality patient-centered care in the Midcoast’
BELFAST — Highlighting its nationally recognized achievements in patient safety and quality, Waldo County General Hospital was named a Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for the first time…
ROCKLAND — Rockland Rotary Club’s Doug Curtis, Jr., has been nominated as Rotary District 7790’s governor for 2021-2022. One of Rotary’s highest leadership honors, Curtis owns and operates Edward…
Legislators to craft new bills governing state ferry service ticket structure
BELFAST — More than 200 citizens, mostly from Islesboro but more than handful from neighboring mainland towns, as well as selectmen from Vinalhaven and North Haven, state legislators and a county…
Corrective action over weekend has slowed and cleared runoff
CAMDEN — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has issued a notice to School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8), Ledgewood Construction, of South Portland, and Jake…
ROCKLAND — Jennifer Mazurek has joined Bar Harbor Bank and Trust as senior vice president, retail banking operations and treasury support manager.
With an office at the Bank’s Rockland…
Mull over project site completion visits to ensure adherence with plans
ROCKPORT — The Rockport Planning Board met with consulting Town Planner Bill Najpauer Nov. 28 to discuss possible amendments to the town’s current Land…
MSP honored for composting, recycling programs
AUGUSTA— Governor Paul R. LePage and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection have announced recipients of the 2018 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence including the Maine State…
coordinator of early college programs
BELFAST — Allison Small was named early college programs coordinator at the University of Maine, collaborating with high school students who wish to enroll in live and online courses.
“The…
ROCKLAND — Thomas Peaco, Executive Director of the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce, was honored as the 2018 Chamber Professional of the Year by the Maine State Chamber of Commerce. The…
‘Accept ideas of others, build a plan through inclusion’
The Penobscot Bay Pilot’s series, “Elements of Leadership,” features leaders in local communities who reflect on the motivations and challenges faced by those in leadership roles.
For the…
dream car is a Camaro ZL1
OWLS HEAD —Rohobot Carlson, or “Ro” as he is known to his friends and teachers, is a second year student at the …
PORT CLYDE — Videographer/photographer Terry Boivin has been working in Spruce Harbor and Port Clyde, chronicling the business of lobster in mid-November. His video was shot aboard Owen’s Rose…
And three easy tips for Maine small businesses today
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is largely regarded as the first day of the traditional Christmas shopping season, often benefiting big box stores and online giants such as Amazon, but…
Don’t miss the St. George Business Alliance’s 15th annual “Yuletide in St. George ” holiday kick-off event on Friday and Saturday, November 23 and 24. Along Route 131, from Hollyberry Lane to the…
The Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce wants to sincerely thank everyone who helped to make our Annual Awards Dinner last Friday, Nov. 16, a success. Despite snow falling all day, more than 200…
The Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated its annual award winners at its membership dinner at Point Lookout on Friday during a nor’easter.
The annual award dinner is both a…
Confronting challenges of land access, farm transfer, next generation farmers
AUGUSTA — “In the next decade, more than 400,000 acres of Maine farmland will transition in ownership, raising the question: what will happen to that land?” said Erica Buswell, vice president of…
ROCKLAND — The Worthington Scholarship Foundation, with a mission to support post-secondary education in Maine, has hired Jay McIntire, of Winslow, as program…
Watch video of Coast Guard rescue swimmer aiding fishermen
BOSTON — Early Wednesday morning, Nov. 14, members of the Coast Guard, who are stationed on Cape Cod, flew to the rescue of four fishermen whose vessel was floundering approximately 60 miles from…
Women on Main(e) Street, a panel hosted by Midcoast Women
ROCKLAND — For anyone who has ever imagined owning a business, Midcoast Women (formerly Midcoast Women’s Collective) hosted three female entrepreneurs with small businesses on Rockland’s Main…
