CAMDEN — Ralph Chase Lasbury was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle and friend to many. He passed away on January 17, 2022 with family by his side at the age…
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Ronald P. Lufkin, 77, passed away at the Sussman House. Born on August 3, 1944, to Irving Sr. and Evelyn (Hamilton) Lufkin.
In his teen years he started lobstering. Started out with a…
Sen. Chloe Maxmin, D-Nobleboro, will host Kombucha with Chloe, a twist on her usual Coffee with Chloe office hours, from 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday,…
I-beams to be installed in building
CAMDEN — Downtown Camden will get an early start to the day, Tuesday, Jan. 25, around 5 a.m. when construction crews will install two steel I-beams into the brick building that sits at the corner…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Department reported the following activity Jan. 4-16.
An arrest or summons does…
BELFAST — Belfast Police reported the following activity Jan. 10-18.
An arrest or summons does not constitute a…
Born January 22 2022, Seranady-Blu Marie Doherty came into this world at 1:47 a.m., weighing 7 lb and 7 oz.
Her parents are Skyla Sanford and Mark Landers Jr., and she has three…
SWANVILLE — Brian Clifford Thompson, 62, of Swanville, Maine passed away unexpectedly but peacefully at home on January 17, 2022. Born May 29, 1959, to Clifford and Marlene Thompson of Jackson,…
ALBUQUERQU, New Mexico — Barbara Lynn Rawley, 63, of Albuquerque, New Mexico passed away on January 20, 2022. She was born on January 12, 1959 to parents Cliff and Midell (Haller) Overstrum of…
WARREN — A Warren man’s core body temperature dropped fast following a frigid few moments in the ice cold water of South Pond, Saturday afternoon, January 22, 2022. However, after warming back up…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Monday that 14 school administrative units will receive a total of $2.7 million in grant funding from the Maine Department of Education to create or expand…
I am writing on behalf of the Camden Rotary Club to thank everyone who supported our sale of gourmet nuts over the holidays.
We enjoyed meeting friends and neighbors at our downtown…
Letter to the editor
We are writing regarding the question of whether the design of the Rockport Harbor Hotel is in harmony with Rockport village.
Our firm, Scholz & Barclay Architecture, has years of…
BRUNSWICK — The indoor track and field program from Belfast Area High School traveled Saturday, Jan. 22 to compete at Bowdoin College.
In the girls division, Belfast placed sixth, of six…
GORHAM — The indoor track and field programs from Oceanside and Medomak Valley traveled Friday, Jan. 21 to the University of Southern Maine to compete.
In the girls division, of nine teams…
BELFAST — State Legislative candidate Arthur House, Jr. has withdrawn his candidacy for District 39 in the Maine House of Representatives, he told PenBayPilot.com in an email Jan. 23.
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SEARSPORT — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 20 school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the SDMHS cafetorium.
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BELFAST — The agenda for the upcoming Regional School Unit 71 school board meeting has been set.
The meeting will be held Monday, Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m.
Attendees can participate via…
Press release
The Maine Tourism Association (MTA) recently polled its members about business over the holidays and what they are predicting for winter and spring business.
According to Tony Cameron,…
agenda for jan. 24 meeting
APPLETON — The school committee for the Appleton Village School will hold its next committee meeting Monday, Jan. 24.
The meeting will be held at 5 p.m. virtually over Zoom: …
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…
On Friday, January 21, Maine State Police said in a news release that Kote Aldus, 30, of Waldo had violated his conditions of release, his conditions of a protection from abuse order, as well as…
KITTERY — The Maine Department of Transportation will be closing travel lanes on the Piscataqua River (I-95) Bridge in Kittery next week to accommodate overhead sign work.
Between Monday,…
On a bright and frigid Friday, with windchill making it feel like 1 degree Fahrenheit and sea smoke in the distance beyond the Rockland Breakwater, 10 staff and boatbuilding apprentices submerged…
PORTLAND — The Bicycle Coalition of Maine has opened registration for the 2022 BikeMaine Weekend ride, scheduled for Aug. 26-28 in Lincoln.
The three-day event will feature two different…
WALDOBORO — The Waldo Theatre (916 Main St) is currently running an in-school program, InterAct, for local elementary schools with plans to expand into the Fall of 2022. The goal is to provide…
Letter to the editor
Susan Collins, one of Maine's two senators in the U.S. Congress, has an opportunity to be as brave as the late Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, who dared to to take on the…
Specializing in books that explore, heal and edify
ROCKLAND—It’s never a bad thing to have another independent bookstore open in the Midcoast and Arctic Tern Books is the newest bookstore to cement Rockland’s reputation as a thriving cultural…
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Good Shepherd Food Bank, Maine’s largest hunger relief organization, is launching NutritionForME.org, a one-stop online resource to find simple, nutritious, and easy-to-make recipes using everyday…
Single-family existing homes across Maine remained in very high demand during the full sales year of 2021. According to Maine Listings, the statewide median…
TENANTS HARBOR and THOMASTON — The Oceanside eighth grade girls basketball team collected a pair of victories during back-to-back contests this week.
…
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…
dangerous wind chill temperatures tonight through tomorrow morning
AUGUSTA — The Maine Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) encourages residents to be prepared for a lengthy stretch of cold weather. The National Weather Service in Gray forecasts an arctic air mass…
two educators, a database manager, a graphic artist and an emergency room doctor
BELFAST — A new photography exhibit by the Zoom Lens Group opened January 6, 2022, at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The show,…
WALDOBORO — James Rivington Pyne, a resident of Waldoboro for 39 years, died at a hospice in Brunswick January 19, 2022.
Riv, as he was known to his family and friends, was born in Bryn…
lending a helping hand
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — More than two dozen National Guard troops arrived at Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, to lend a helping…
local governments, municipalities, educational institutions, and nonprofits
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's Maine Forest Service (MFS) Project Canopy community forestry program will award up to $175,000 in grants to local…
ROCKPORT — The seed catalogs have been arriving in the mail daily now so that must mean it’s time to reserve your space at The Rockport Community Garden, according to a news release. This will be…
‘This gift from OUT Maine could not have come at a better time.’
This past fall, OUT Maine’s Executive Director Jeanne Dooley had a flash of inspiration. What if school libraries had more inclusive books available to their students? OUT Maine, an organization…
WALDOBORO — The Medomak eighth grade basketball teams hosted Wiscasset for a middle school basketball contest Wednesday, Jan. 19 in Waldoboro.
Girls…
APPLETON — The seventh grade boys and girls basketball teams from Appleton and Medomak met on the hardwood Wednesday, Jan. 19 in Appleton.
Girls:…
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 — Six tenants of a Rockland apartment building who lost their homes and personal property in an…
LINCOLNVILLE — Citizens objecting to a proposed pier that would, if approved, extend into Penobscot Bay 300 feet from the Lincolnville…
OPINIONATED AT ANY SPEED
Hyundai has done something clever here, and it makes me wonder why these things are still so rare—namely, SUV-based pickups. This is a Tucson, a Hyundai two-row crossover sport-ute, with the rear…
AUGUSTA — Representative Bill Pluecker, I-Warren, this week introduced LD 174 “An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Ending Hunger by 2030 Advisory Group” which seeks to end hunger in the…
BRISTOL, R.I. — A pair of local students from the Midcoast have been named to the Fall 2021 Dean's List at Roger Williams University located in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Full-time students…
‘get your hands sticky’
JACKSON — David Greeley, who has been tapping trees for more than 50 years, is offering a hands-on course in “Making Maple” at Belfast Senior College beginning Feb. 17. The four-week course on…
For 35 years, the Camden Conference has gathered the Maine community together for a February weekend to discuss global issues that affect all of us and to inspire the community to engage in…
caring about others, not expecting anything in return
THOMASTON — Several students at Thomaston Grammar School were recognized for the attribute of friendship at a school-wide assembly on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.
Students presented with the…
