AUGUSTA — Rep. Scott Cuddy, D-Winterport, introduced a bill before the Legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee this week that seeks to develop a strong workforce in Maine’s renewable energy…
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BATH — A trio of Midcoast high school wrestlers earned at the Maine’s New England qualifier tournament the opportunity to represent Maine at the upcoming New England regional wrestling tournament…
Letter to the editor
The purpose of this letter is to express some of the public’s concerns as they relate to the stormwater management plan and other aspects of the proposed Maine Housing Authority, Knox County…
Letter to the editor
Congratulations to the City of Belfast for securing an agreement from Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey under which Frey will stop defending the Harriet L. Hartley Conservation Area if the City…
Despite a rocky start in high school, she has thrived at BCOPE in Belfast
BELFAST—Mia Fay, a junior at Belfast Community Outreach Program in Education (BCOPE) in Belfast, is headed for big things this spring, representing Maine at the…
I think the writer of last week’s letter to the editor “Let’s resolve the Dam and Falls issue” has the issue a little backwards.
…or maybe shuffleboard isn’t my game
I usually wake up running through the day’s schedule, you know, pick up chicken feed at Aubuchon, finish doing the taxes, check up on the Schoolhouse renovation, clean out the seed trays, what to…
Seacoast Security says it is ready
MIDCOAST – Happy with that phone service, alarm service, or electronic features on your car? If you still have a Blackberry, uh oh. That…
CAMDEN—"Finding Our Voices" will return in March with a multi-media exhibit at the Camden Public Library. Patrisha McLean began her movement to combat domestic violence…
CAMDEN— The Camden Public Library is excited to announce that plans are underway for the Summer Harbor Arts & Books Fair to be held on the weekend of July 9 to 10.…
ROCKLAND — Various films and live shows have been added to the Strand Theatre’s lineup for March. The upcoming events and film showings are listed below.
…ROCKLAND — The following deed transfers were recorded from Feb. 14-20 at the Knox County Registry of Deeds.
Appleton
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exploring how early life experiences affect the ways adults relate to each other
Registration is open for an online professional development program, “Past Trauma, Current Relations: How Nonviolent Communication Helps Us Communicate,” through the University of Maine Hutchinson…
ST. GEORGE — St. George Municipal School Unit has submitted the following information regarding St. George PreK & K Registration for the 2022-2023 School…
renovations made to the building; activities and events being planned
THOMASTON — After a long break, due to high Covid-19 and Omicrom daily case increases, the Williams-Brazier Post 37, Thomaston, will re-open its doors once again for new activities during 2022.…
Ten days of meetings and field trips throughout the Penobscot Bay region
BELFAST — After a two-year Covid hiatus, the Penobscot Bay Stewards Program is now planning to host a new cohort of 20 promising environmental volunteers this Spring.
“This is a perfect way…
NORTHPORT — Bernadette M. (Bucka) Bartlett, 75, of Northport, passed away on February 17, 2022, in Belfast.
She was born on August 10, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of the…
ROCKLAND — Levina Gerritsen, 95, died on Feb 19, 2022 at Bartlett Woods in Rockland, Maine.
Levina “Fien” Gerritsen was born in 1926 in a small town in The Netherlands. At 16, she met Frans…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
WOOLWICH — The Maine Department of Transportation is replacing the Station 46 Bridge, which carries Route 1 over the Back River Creek Marsh and Rockland Branch of the Maine Central Railroad in…
ST. GEORGE — The St. George Business Alliance (SGBA) will award one ($1,000) scholarship to a high school senior from the town of St. George graduating in the spring of 2022. The student and one…
AUGUSTA — Senator Chip Curry, D-Belfast, introduced Monday a bill to reduce barriers Mainers face in accessing heating assistance.
LD 1966, “An Act To Facilitate Access to Heating…
THOMASTON – As a youngster growing up in the Thomaston Fire Station, where his father once delegated emergency calls as a dispatcher, helped organize the first town ambulance service, and for a…
opinion: Phil Crossman
I enjoy serious discussion and once found it in political debate, serious consideration of issues about which there was substantive disagreement.
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Both advocate for own June town meeting referendums
CAMDEN — Restore Megunticook and the Save the Dam Falls Committee are two homegrown citizen groups with separate goals about the future…
asks Mainers to express support for Ukraine; calls on State Liquor and Lottery Commission to delist Russia-made spirits
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills signed a proclamation Monday declaring Maine’s Solidarity with Ukraine. The Governor’s proclamation expresses the State of Maine’s solidarity with the people of…
SEARSPORT — Phyllis H. Talgo, 70, of Searsport, Maine, passed away Friday, February 25, 2022, at her residence with her family by her side.
She was born February 2, 1952, in Stockton…
NORTH HAVEN — Cecelia “Joe-Ann” Santee, 79, passed away peacefully on Sunday, February 27, 2022, at the Southern Harbor House on North Haven, surrounded by the love of her children.
A full…
Also on the March 1 agenda: appoint new police chief
BELFAST — The Belfast City Council will hold its …
BELFAST — Stockton Springs artist Anne Spencer will be the March Guest Artist at Local Color Gallery.
Spencer moved to Maine in 1972. While working as an occupational therapist at EMMC in…
ROCKPORT — The agenda for the next Five Town CSD school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Wednesday, March 2 at 7 p.m. in the Bisbee Theater at Camden-Rockport Middle…
The following letter was distributed over the weekend by Regional School Unit 3 superintendent Charles Brown.
Dear RSU #3 Community,
I hope this letter finds you and your…
CAMDEN — Seaside Village Preschool will hold open houses for families interested in enrolling for the 2022-2023 school year.
a boy loses a white mitten in the snow...
SEARSPORT — To bring a smile to people’s faces and get them excited about stories, Carver Memorial Library and local businesses are partnering to present a winter-themed StoryWalk® for families to…
Neighborhood Forest celebrates Earth day
SEARSPORT — Carver Memorial Library invites the community to join them in celebrating Earth Day this spring by participating in the 13th Annual Neighborhood Forest free tree program, whose aim is…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), in cooperation with Maine Resource and Recovery Association, is again offering local residents the opportunity to improve soil and…
For anyone who has a passion for social justice
In May 2001, the nation learned that 14 of a group of 26 Mexican men migrating to the U.S. for work had suffered hideous deaths in a part of the Arizona desert known as the Devil’s Highway. …
Belfast makes a weekend out of ice sculptures and ice bars around town
BELFAST—The streets of downtown Belfast were alive on Saturday with hundreds of people walking around to take photos of ice sculptures, watch live ice carving demonstrations, and have a chill sip…
ROCKPORT — The Midcoast Recreation Center will be holding a mixed doubles pickleball tournament Sunday, March 20 open to all levels.
The tournament cost is $25 per person and the round…
SEARSPORT — The Regional School Unit 20 board of directors will convene for a special meeting Tuesday, March 1.
The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the SDMHS cafetorium and will be…
march 3 and march 4
There will be two COVID-19 vaccination clinics held in the Midcoast next week with one in Knox County and one in Waldo County.
The St. George Ambulance will hold a booster clinic with…
BELFAST — The agenda for the upcoming Regional School Unit 71 school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the BAHS band room.
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After responders from two neighboring communities were called 15 minutes apart to motor vehicle crashes in their respected towns, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, the Pen Bay Pilot began to keep a closer…
APPLETON — The school committee for the Appleton Village School will hold its next committee meeting Monday, Feb. 28.
The meeting will be held at 5 p.m. virtually over Zoom: …
opinion
Like T.S. Eliot, who declares at the beginning of his great “Dry Salvages” poem that he does “not know very much about Gods,” I do not know very much about trees. But also like Eliot, who…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine.
Maine CDC conducts case investigations and contact tracing Monday through…
AUGUSTA — With the U.S. CDC announcing Friday it is relaxing its mask guidance for communities where hospitals aren’t under high strain, Governor Janet Mills is calling on the Maine CDC to review…
BELFAST — The Colonial Theatre graciously welcomes renowned comedian Ian Stuart and The Maine Comedy All-Stars to the…
BELFAST — Two hundred original works by Waldo County's next generation of artists will be on display throughout the month of March. In addition to "taking over" both galleries at…
BELFAST — The following deed transfers were recorded in the Waldo County Registry of Deeds Dec. 27 - Jan. 14.
Belfast
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