WALDOBORO — The Waldo Theatre, located at 916 Main Street in Waldoboro, will host a Community Theatre 2022 Season Meeting and Open House at the newly renovated theater Tuesday, February 15 from 5:…
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On Wednesday, February 23, the Midcoast Conservancy will host a “Starry Night Cinema” outdoor movie experience at the Barn at Hidden Valley Nature Center. The event will…
HOPE— The Hope Library will host two well-known local poets for a reading on Zoom on the evening of Thursday, February 24 at 7 p.m.
Kristen Lindquist of Camden and Elizabeth Tibbetts of…
FRIENDSHIP — Salt Pond Studio is hosting a 4 session intensive workshop with featured artist Bjorn Runquist entitled “Composition, Value, and Color”. The workshop will consist of four sessions and…
PORTLAND — Indigo Arts Alliance (IAA) is an arts incubator founded in 2018 and launched in 2019 located in Portland, Maine. IAA’s mission is to cultivate the artistic development of people of…
BELFAST — The following divorces were recently recorded in Belfast District Court.
Crystal L. Mort, of Montville, and…
Parking study, number of hotel rooms issues still on the table
ROCKPORT — Three hours of deliberation and discussion ended Thursday evening, Jan. 27, with four members of the Rockport Planning Board agreeing to continue their meeting until Feb. 3, when they…
‘It’s pretty amazing to get to work with so many selfless, enthusiastic, kid-focused humans’
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine (BBBSMM) welcomes Haley Stearns as the agency’s new Midcoast program manager. In her new role, Stearns supports the community youth mentoring program, as well…
Roderick Allen Hall “Red,” 85, passed away on January 30th, 2022, during a blizzard, in true Red Hall fashion. He was born on March 11, 1936, to Thelma and Galen Hall in Brooks, Maine.
Red…
ROCKLAND — Anne Fellows, 93, of Rockland, Maine died January 30, 2022 after a period of declining health.
Anne was born March 23, 1928 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Edward and Rosaline…
imagining Arno .... seeing familiar faces again .... a personal note
Nearly every evening, after chores were done, young Arno Knight went down to the Corner. What was the attraction? His buddies, perhaps a cup or two of hard cider, and a place to hang out. The year…
Everything you always wanted to know about getting your pilot’s license from Penobscot Island Air
OWLS HEAD — There isn’t one of us who, on a sunny day, hasn’t heard the soft purr of an engine overhead and looked up to watch an airplane gently floating by. The dream of flying. Everyone has it…
ROCKPORT — The agenda for the next Five Town CSD school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Bisbee Theater at Camden-Rockport Middle…
CAMDEN — Camden Opera House has released its calendar lineup for February 2022 and beyond:
Friday, Feb. 4 – …
‘Hancock and Washington counties deserve access to excellent noninvasive cardiology services’
ELLSWORTH — Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital welcomes Zachary Trzaska, MD, to its cardiology practice in Ellsworth.
A graduate of the St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine, Dr.…
MIDCOAST — The snow plowers — town, state and guys in the business — were out all night Saturday, Jan. 29, into Sunday afternoon, cleaning up after the coastal blizzard deposited more than a foot…
ROCKPORT — Maine Wood 2022 opened at the Messler Gallery at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship on Friday, January 21. The show runs through April 6, and a virtual tour of the…
Feb. 12 and Feb. 22
ROCKLAND — Following multiple sold out shows last fall, the Strand Theatre will present two encore screenings of Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, the first opera by a Black composer…
UNION — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 40 school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. via livestream and in the district’s central…
ST GEORGE — The St. George Fire Department meeting room will be open to the public Saturday, January 29, 2022 for use as an Emergency Warming Shelter.
If you are are in need of shelter…
Follow the Four R’s to Knock Out Browntail Moth
AUGUSTA — February 2022 has been recognized as Browntail Moth Awareness Month in Maine to encourage people to take advantage of the dormant season of the insect and join together to…
ALNA — Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District is collaborating with Midcoast Conservancy to offer a program on pruning techniques needed to keep your apple trees productive, on…
‘work that I believe will have a truly meaningful and long-term impact’
CAMDEN — This week, Coastal Mountains Land Trust welcomed Tempe Landi, Development & Communications Coordinator, to their team. Landi comes to the Land Trust having worked in a variety of…
TENANTS HARBOR — Middle school basketball players from Oceanside traveled to Tenants Harbor to compete against St. George in a girls basketball contest Friday, Jan. 28.
The contest was…
ROCKLAND — The agenda for the Regional School Unit 13 school board meeting Thursday, Feb. 3 is set.
The meeting will be held virtually at 6:30 p.m.
Meetings can be viewed on …
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Friday the launch of a new pilot project with The Rockefeller Foundation to mail 125,000 free COVID-19 tests directly to the homes of Maine people most in…
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…
Sheila Lowe, of Union, has been elected as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce for 2022. Lowe replaces Jeff Hamilton of JA Hamilton Consulting, in…
passionate about supporting Maine’s rural communities
ROCKLAND — The Island Institute, a community development nonprofit serving Maine’s island and coastal communities, announced Jan. 28, 2022 that Nick Battista has been promoted to the role of Chief…
Mary Ann (Efird) Higgins passed away from illness on December 23, 2021, with family by her side. She had an enduring love for sailing, exceeded only by her love for family and community.
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Blowing, drifting snow; zero visibility, cruel winds
“There has been quite a bit of buzz about this storm for most of this week,” said the meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Gray, in their synopsis of what is to come. They are not…
ROCKLAND — The following cases were closed in Knox County Unified Court from Jan. 14-24.
Dillon J.A. Ames, 27, of Searsport, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Vinalhaven Dec. 12,…
CAMDEN — While the identity of Otto the Cat, (the anonymous benefactor who established a recent challenge to benefit the Camden Area Christian Food Pantry) remains a mystery, his generosity has…
using the latest science to set standards for return
MaineHealth said January 27, 2022, that it is altering slightly its policy with respect to how care team members return to work after a case of COVID-19, dropping a requirement for a negative…
$150,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts
CAMDEN — The Points North Institute has set their dates for the 18th edition of the Camden International Film Festival, which will run from September 15-18, 2022 in Camden, Rockport, and Rockland…
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — In light of the winter storm that is forecast to arrive in the Midcoast this weekend, Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital have made the following…
ROCKPORT — Pamela Hubbard Stone, widow of Richard "Dick" Stone, passed away January 24, 2022 surrounded by the love of her daughters Maggie and Heidi Timmermann.
A full obituary will be…
ROCKPORT — The Rockport Planning Office has, so far, circulated to approximately 200 citizens via email an invitation to weigh in with opinions about the future of the former Rockport Elementary…
ROCKLAND — The City of Rockland will enact a parking ban starting Saturday, January 29, at 6 a.m. until Sunday morning, January 30, at 8 a.m. Parking will be allowed in…
‘if you have to go out please be prepared’
CAMDEN — With tomorrow’s forecast calling for blizzard conditions, the Camden Police Chief is asking that drivers stay off the roads unless it for necessary or emergency travel.
“Blizzard…
Here in the Boothbay Region when we hear “Mumbai to Maine,” we immediately think of Mumbai native Cherie Scott who has been our friend and neighbor these past 14 years. We recall the exciting…
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…
ROCKLAND — The following deed transfers were recorded from Jan. 17-23 at the Knox County Registry of Deeds.
Camden
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funding trips and activities throughout the year
Trekkers’ annual catalog fundraiser, Local Treats, is on and students are taking orders. The catalog features treats from local Bixby Chocolate and Rock City Coffee.
Now through March 9,…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will offer an online workshop for youth ages 12–18 years about marshlands and climate change, Wednesday, Feb. 23, from 1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
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The Camden Public Library has released its event calendar for the first three weeks of February.
Month-Long Events:
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AUGUSTA — Coastal Maine could see several inches of snowfall this weekend, particularly the Down East region. The National Weather Service in Gray and Caribou report snow and blowing snow in Maine…
AUGUSTA — Two separate but complementary screening projects are being launched across Maine, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday, spanning more than a dozen sites…
THOMASTON — The Oceanside and Medomak eighth grade girls basketball teams met on the hardwood Wednesday, Jan. 26 in Thomaston for a Busline League contest.
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Jan. 27, 2022 – An investigator with the Fire Marshal’s Office has determined the cause of fire to be an unattended fire pit too close to the house, according to Warren Fire Chief Greg Andrews.…
