NORTHPORT At the Northport Select Board meeting on Monday, July 12, the municipal officers unanimously voted to appoint James Kossuth as the new Town Administrator. The current Town Administrator…
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On July 11, 2021 Maine State Police Troopers arrested Kevin Michaud, 58, at his home in China.
Michaud was arrested on one count of Simple Assault Class D and summonsed for one count of…
Growing concern that municipal funding will get stricken from federal infrastructure bill
The flow of federal money to the states for broadband…
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 former owner of Castle Builders in Union who was indicted by the Knox County grand jury in March for theft by deception of over $400,000 from consumers throughout the Midcoast…
ROCKLAND – A 2017 idea to create a trail connecting Rockland’s harbor to a parcel of land known as the Bog may soon see its first completed trail segment, the Bog Overlook Trail.
Rockland’s…
WASHINGTON — Annette R. (Clements) Harrington, 60, of Washington, passed away on July 10, 2021, in Augusta.
A graveside service will be held on Friday, July 16, 2021, at 1 p.m., at Marr…
WESTPORT, Connecticut — Alan Hahn Eugley passed away on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 in Westport, Connecticut, surrounded by his family at home, following a long and steadfast battle with pancreatic…
FRIENDSHIP — Harold Henry “Hap” Gagne, of Friendship, Maine, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, departed this life for the next on July 2, 2021. He was 83 when he passed away peacefully at…
ROCKPORT — An afternoon crash involving a van with six occupants and a sedan on Route 17 in Rockport at the intersection of Liberty Street sent four to the hospital via ambulance with complaints…
At issue: how to spend $7.7 million in American Rescue Plan funds
On July 12, the managers and administrators of Camden, Rockland, Rockport and Thomaston sent a letter to the Knox County Commissioners,…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court July 1-8.
Jessie J. Reynolds, 38, of Knox, assault (two counts) in Brooks May 30, 2020, seven days in jail…
400 percent increase in daily rental of harbor park
ROCKPORT — A list of proposed fee increases for the use of Marine Park in Rockport Harbor was approved by members of the Rockport Select Board on July 12. The rate proposal had been submitted by…
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…
ROCKPORT — Rockport Police reported issuing six traffic citations between May 27-June 27. Of the six traffic citations, two were issued for failure to register a motor vehicle, one was issued…
ROCKLAND — The following deed transfers were recorded from July 5-9 at the Knox County Registry of Deeds.
Appleton
Jacquelyn Rhoades and Jacquelyn St. Clair to…
Just after 5 p.m., July 12, Rockport police and firefighters, along with a North East Mobile Health Services ambulance crew, responded to a crash on Route 17 involving a…
BELFAST — Belfast Police reported eight traffic violations from June 29 - July 9, including the following citations: one citation for failure to stop at a stop sign, one for speeding, two…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Department reported two traffic infractions June 23 - July 12. Of the two infractions, one citation was issued for an…
BELFAST — Margaret Hannan, 80 years old, went to be with her husband, Mike Hannan, and son Paul Reilly on July 7, 2021.
Margaret was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on…
the widow card .... an old farmhouse .... beer-soaked henhouse
I played the widow card the other day with an old friend (old, both as in our friendship and as in his age, 90-plus). It was a subtle reference, but one I’m not shy about. We were talking about…
Some may have noticed the bike symbols that just got painted on Mechanic Street in Camden. They’re called sharrows.
Originally…
Meeting this evening
ROCKLAND — The City Council in Rockland will address this evening, beginning at 6 p.m., a full agenda of municipal business that includes establishing a Police Review Committee. The charge of that…
BUCKSPORT — A group of approximately 40 people assembled in Bucksport July 10 to stand with members of the Penobscot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe at the docking of the vessel …
$2 million building to offer additional space, safety
On July 12 the Rockport Select Board will review the design and costs of a new West Rockport Fire Station, which would replace the existing building at the corners of routes 17 and 90. At the…
WASHINGTON — John McGuire knew exactly what he was looking at as he drove into a stretch of Route 17, in Washington, Saturday evening, July 10. Based on the thick black smoke sifting into the air…
AUGUSTA — Attorney General Aaron M. Frey announced this week a resolution of his lawsuit against the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, that will make public tens of millions of…
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…
The ‘Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Child and Family Services and Child Protective Services has failed these children’
AUGUSTA — Senator Chip Curry, D-Belfast, submitted a request Friday for the Government Oversight Committee to investigate the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Child and Family…
Fast-moving weather leaves 5 inches of fresh rain in West Rockport
CAMDEN — By dusk July 9, the tropical storm that sped across Maine was clearing out, leaving open skies behind it. But in its wake, the…
CAMDEN — Thomas Darling Hopps, 91, died Monday, July 5, at Meadowdown, exactly where he wanted to be, and in the presence of his family reading his favorite poems to him.
He was born…
UNION — Barbara Ann Vittum, born June 29, 1957, in Ellsworth, passed over on July 6, 2021 in Rockport, after a long illness with cancer.
Barb, affectionately known as Barbie Beara, was…
Next stop, July 12, Knox County Superior Court
ROCKPORT – Voting unanimously on every motion before it July 8, the Rockport Zoning Board of Appeals decided in favor of…
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…
ROCKPORT — Anne V. Hellevig, 85, passed away peacefully after a long heroic battle with cancer on Saturday, July 3, 2021 at the Sussman House in Rockport.
Anne was born on July 20…
VINALHAVEN — Carlene Winn Michael, 78, passed away peacefully on June 26, 2021, on Islesboro, after a life of happiness and generosity that will live on in the memory of the entire community.…
ROCKLAND, Maine — Eleanor J. Rose, 96, died Wednesday, July 7, 2021, of infirmities at Harbor Hill long term care facility in Belfast. The family appreciates the care she received, especially…
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…
Making public ways to the ocean more obvious and accessible
CAMDEN — While Camden occupies a lengthy portion of Penobscot Bay’s western shoreline, most of the land is privately owned, and the public has but a limited number of access spots to the ocean.…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills has signed into law LD 1619, which prohibits new offshore wind projects in State waters.
The prohibition, according to a news release, preserves State…
A celebration of Dana Merrill Whitten, M.D.’s life will be held on Saturday, July 31, 2021, at 11 a.m., at the Belfast Boathouse. A graveside interment will be held privately.…
ROCKPORT – Possibly the most complicated case to ever land before Rockport’s quasi-judicial Zoning Board of Appeals will wind toward the…
A graveside service for Florice L. Young, 98, of Vinalhaven, who died on Feb. 23, 2021, will be held Saturday, July 10, 2021, at 11 a.m., at Brown’s Head Cemetery in Vinalhaven. Elder Robert…
ROCKLAND—A wild idea turned out to be the smartest thing that Richard Curtis, a lobsterman out of Friendship, ever had.
He’d never run a food truck before. “One day, I found a truck for…
Misfits Rehab on the proper care of rescued animals
AUBURN—Summers are an exhausting time for licensed wildlife rehabilitators such as Jennifer Marchigiani, who has run Misfits Rehab since 2002. With so many babies born in the spring and summer…
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 June 28-July 2 at the Knox County Registry of Deeds.
Appleton
Timothy Hynd and Morgan Hynd to…
Fireworks......strawberries.....restaurants
It wasn’t a very warm – or even dry – Fourth of July, but nothing was going to stop the celebrations. As darkness fell, and the misty rain that plagued our picnic finally stopped, fireworks were…
UNION — Grace G. Jones passed away July 3, 2021, at the age of 95, at the Country Manor Nursing Home in Coopers Mills.
She was born on June 12, 1926 to Edward and Harriet Jones in…
CHESAPEAKE, Virginia — Patricia Ann Perry, 52, former Rockland resident, died peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at Virginia Beach General Hospital, in Virginia…
