AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Thursday the State of Maine will move the deadline for Maine individual income tax payments from April 15 to May 17, a change aligning Maine with the…
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Issues of diversity in children’s literature will be the focus of an online panel discussion with authors, illustrators and editors on April 6, hosted by the University of Maine Raymond H. Fogler…
more than 1,455 trees planted by Camden Garden Club programs
CAMDEN — In partnership with the Town of Camden and the Camden Garden Club, individual property owners are being offered the opportunity to have street trees…
New appointments added every Monday and Wednesday
ELLSWORTH — Northern Light Maine Coast and Blue Hill Hospitals plan to open an offsite, community COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Ellsworth. The Northern Light Hancock County Community Vaccination…
changing its name to reflect the move
ROCKLAND — Rockland Family Planning, which provides access to affordable reproductive health care, is relocating to Thomaston in April and changing its name to reflect the move.
The health…
ROCKLAND — AIO Food & Energy Assistance has been the recipient of meaningful support from throughout the community this past year, but noteworthy is a generation of younger supporters.
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AUGUSTA — COVID-19 has created the need for extended unemployment, and there are now a number of people who are coming to the end of their benefit year, according to the Maine Department of Labor…
ROCKPORT — The Maine Coast Storm ice hockey program will be holding tryouts for the 2021-2022 season later this month from Monday, March 22 to Wednesday, March 24.
“The Storm coaches and…
The University of Maine at Augusta and the Maine Department of Corrections have opened the Doris Buffett Higher Education Center at the Maine State Prison in Warren.
The ribbon cutting…
AUGUSTA — For the week ending March 13, the Maine Department of Labor recorded about 1,900 initial claims filed for state unemployment insurance, and 300 initial claims filed for federal Pandemic…
Bill would formally classify intentional balloon releases as littering
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee will hold a public hearing on a bill to define intentional balloon releases as an act of littering.
The measure,…
Hail To The Rad Kids
ROCKLAND—Take a walk through the cavernous welding/fabrication shop at the newly built Midcoast School of Technology and you’ll be surrounded by industrial machines, tools, workbenches, and vices…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, March 18, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced, March 18, an additional two COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 727.
Below is a table of all the COVID-19…
Poem: Kendall Merriam
For Kathleen Harper, MD
She considers every angle
every beat
topped by lovely curly silver hair
over ridiculous pink sneakers
she changed my meds
…
The Maine Dept. of Marine Resources will be holding meetings to engage with Zone Councils D, E and F who have fishermen who fish in the area being reviewed for the potential of a floating offshore…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Health Committee, and Angus King announced Wednesday the Maine Department of Health and Human Services has been awarded a…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills extended Wednesday the State of Civil Emergency through April 15.
The Governor’s decision to extend the emergency is in line with nearly every other state in…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday the federal income tax filing due date for individuals for the 2020 tax year will be automatically…
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…
appleton, camden, hope, lincolnville, rockport residents
ROCKPORT — The SAD 28 and Five Town CSD school boards will hold virtual budget meetings Monday, March 22 to present the 2021-2022 school budgets to the community and…
addition made to the agenda
ROCKLAND — The agenda has been set for a special Regional School Unit 13 school board meeting slated to be held Thursday, March 18.
The meeting will be virtually held at 6 p.m.
…
ROCKLAND – The following deed transfers were recorded from March 1-5 at the Knox County Registry of Deeds.
Appleton
Michael J. Jones to Michael J. Jones and Darci A…
Over the past year, archivists and librarians all over Maine have been collecting primary source materials related to their communities’ experiences of the COVID-19…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — Knox native Adrienne Shibles, now the women’s basketball head coach at Bowdoin College will lead the USA Basketball Women’s U16 National Team at the 2021 FIBA Americas…
Keep Belfast Beautiful Annual Clean Up
BELFAST — For the fourth year in a row, Belfast businesses and residents will be forming teams from Thursday to Saturday, May 6 - 8, 2021 to clean up the approximately 59 miles of roadside in…
HOPE — The school committee for Hope Elementary School will be holding a special committee meeting Tuesday, March 23.
The meeting will be held virtually at 6 p.m. over Zoom.
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AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, March 17, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
‘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…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court March 5-11.
Elizabeth A. Dumais, 65, of Burnham, disorderly conduct (offensive words/gestures) in Burnham June 29,…
BOSTON, Massachusetts — The following students have been named to Emerson College's Dean's List for the Fall 2020 semester. The requirement to make Dean's List is a grade point average of 3.7 or…
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…
Rockland’s Good Tern Co-op pairs up with Maine Needs to comfort Maine citizens
ROCKLAND—Good Tern, the co-op that rounds up change for worthy causes each month as covered in a…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list, March 16, of COVID-19 cases in the state of Maine.
Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the latest…
AUGUSTA — The Maine House and Senate voted March 11 to advance a bill sponsored by Representative Scott Cuddy, D-Winterport, ensuring certain educational technicians are not required to pay into…
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…
MORRILL — Alta L. Brown, 96 of Morrill, went to be with her Lord and savior on March 1, 2021 in Belfast.
She was born in Swanville, Maine on May 11, 1924 to Charles and Flora (Hall) Lenfest…
BELFAST — Eileen A. Dubinett, 81, died at her home on Sunday, March 7, 2021 in Belfast.
A complete obituary will be published later. There are no services planned at this time.
If…
WARREN — The Midcoast Sternmen, a newly formed semi-professional basketball team participating in the newly formed Professional Basketball Association, will be holding tryouts next month in Warren…
ROCKLAND — Ralph Vance Hooper, 83, died Friday March 12, 2021 at Windward Gardens, surrounded by family. Ralph ultimately succumbed to complications from congestive heart failure.
Ralph was…
April 9 deadline for letters of interest
ROCKPORT — In a continued effort to find potential developers for the site of the former Rockport Elementary School (RES) at the corners of Route 90 and Route 1, members of the municipal RES Task…
On March 11 at 4 a.m., officer Doug Snyder received a report of burglary from a motor vehicle with a wallet stolen from a car in a downtown area, it was later reported that credit cards from the…
The Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts Fund of the Maine Community Foundation is seeking applications.
The fund supports projects and organizations that promote Maine traditional handcrafts.…
The Dropkick Murphys, Irish cooking, live Dublin music and more
Do you miss a rousing Celtic jam with fiddlers stuffed all up in a hot, snug pub? Yes, this year looks a lot different for our usual St. Paddy’s Day Rundown, but we’re in the midst of a bleeding…
the first to quantify in exact measurements the magnitude, spectrum, spatial coherence and polarization of thermal radiation from atomic-scale materials
Components the size of a few atoms, known as quantum materials, can enhance how technology functions and manages its heat. However, little is known about how heat is emitted and exchanged in…
poor excuse of a winter .... hair grown out ....good to be together
Four of us, friends and neighbors, teamed up Saturday to bake some pies. We decided the Beach Schoolhouse kitchen (aka the LIA) would be the place to do it, so we trucked our supplies down there…
US Navy, Coast Guard troops and changes to an island
MONHEGAN — The Second World War had a dramatic impact on the everyday lives of individuals across the country, and while far from the fighting, the residents of Maine’s remote offshore islands…
