John Willis Osier, 90, passed away on June 18, 2019 at The Sussman House in Rockport, Maine.
John was born on May 19, 1929 in Bremen, Maine to parents Llewelyn Osier and Florance Hilton…
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WALDOBORO — Waldoboro police responded to 152 calls for service from June 20-28. Listed below are a few of the highlights. An arrest or…
BELFAST — Belfast Police reported the following activity June 17-26. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
June 17
Neil Greenleaf, 35, of Belfast,…
The following appeared in the June 27 newsletter, Invasive Pest Outreach Information, from the Maine Dept. of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry:
Browntail Moth (Euproctis…
ROCKLAND — Beverly Salmond Frain of Bay Head, NJ, died peacefully after a short illness surrounded by family.
Born April 12, 1942 in Fall…
LINCOLNVILLE — A man was found dead in Norton Pond, in Lincolnville, in what Waldo County Sheriff's deputies refer to as a tragic accidental drowning.
On Friday, June 28, at 10:45…
BELFAST — Every Thursday, a group of dedicated volunteers meets in the old Maskers Building to discuss different ideas for how to help those currently…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court June 14-20.
Chandler D.…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity June 16-22. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
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BELFAST — Belfast Police reported the following activity June 21-25. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
June 21…
BURNHAM — Colleen M. Lasselle, 89, passed away at her residence in Burnham on June 24, 2019 in the presence of her family.
She was born October 28, 1929 in Burnham to Harry and Mildred (…
BELFAST — A man accused of stealing a school bus driver’s personal truck has been sentenced to three weeks in jail as a…
BELFAST — A Carmel man was arraigned in Waldo County Superior Court June 21, after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in Belfast Aug. 21, according to…
Allegedly behind the wheel, intoxicated, at the time of fatal crash
BELFAST — A Bangor man charged with manslaughter in relation to a December 2018 single-vehicle accident that left one dead pleaded not guilty in Waldo…
CAMDEN — School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8) has initiated its Take-a-Seat Campaign and invites supporters to donate and name a seat in the new Bisbee Theater, which is under…
Nomination papers available for three weeks
THOMASTON — A special election for the open select board seat in Thomaston has been set for late August.
Thomaston voters will head to the polls Tuesday, Aug. 27, to vote in a…
CASTINE — William J. Brennan, President of Maine Maritime Academy announced June 26 that the college completed the purchase of a four-acre parcel of land at the former Verso paper mill in…
ROCKLAND — The following cases were closed in Knox County Unified Court from June 10-14.
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After months of preparation, the Water Street Kitchen and Bar, formerly Le Garage, in Wiscasset, is set to debut Thursday, June 27.
After a couple of days of soft openings with family…
Lincoln County Courts
In Superior Court in Wiscasset Tuesday, Shawna Gatto, 44, of Wiscasset, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of her fiance’s granddaughter, 4-year-old Kendall Chick, who died Dec. 8…
‘I felt this position would be a great fit for me’
STOCKTON SPRINGS — It did not take long for the Stockton Springs selectmen to find a replacement for outgoing Stockton Springs Town Manager Courtney O’Donnell as her replacement has already…
A judge has sentenced Kendall Chick’s convicted murderer Shawna Gatto of Wiscasset to serve 50 years in prison, Wiscasset Newspaper’s Gina Hamilton reports.
Full coverage to follow.
CAMDEN — Frank R. Carr, 75, of Camden died on Saturday, June 15, 2019, at Pen Bay Medical Center after a privately fought battle with cancer.
Born in Brooks on July 16, 1943, he was…
ROCKLAND — Catherine E. Peterman, 45, went into the loving arms of her Heavenly Father, Friday, June 14, 2019, at the Sussman Hospice House in Rockport, surrounded by the love of her family…
VINALHAVEN — There will be a Memorial Service for Capt. Nathaniel W. James, III, 102, who died on Feb. 26, 2019, on Saturday, June 29, at 11 a.m., at the Union Church, in Vinalhaven.
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CHINA — Gary Clancy, age 67, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 18, lovingly supported by his family after a heroic struggle with cancer.
Gary was born in Troy, New York on…
Construction targeted for July
ROCKPORT – Pen Bay Medical Center will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on June 26 at 1:30 p.m. to mark the start of construction on a 41,513-square-foot Health Center on its Rockport…
The Maine Public Utilities Commission scheduled three public witness hearings concerning Central Maine Power Company. The hearings are related to two ongoing cases at the Commission, one…
ROCKLAND — The following divorces were finalized in Rockland District Court April-May.
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No butts about it
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Parks and Recreation Committee plans to install cigarette butt collection containers in an effort to keep cigarette litter out of our parks and harbors. …
Jimmie Lee Dulude, 91, died November 30, 2018. Family and friends are invited to a graveside service that will be held Saturday, June 29, at 11 a.m., at Grove Cemetery in Belfast.
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Possible municipal committee dissolution?
ROCKPORT — Membership on the Rockport Parks Committee has dwindled dramatically, with one citizen left to carry the committee into the new fiscal year. Three members whose terms were up in June…
NORTHPORT — Richard A. Seekins, 69, of Northport passed away on Monday, June 24, 2019 at Waldo County General Hospital.
At his request there will be no services.
…
CAMDEN — Firefighters in Camden, as well as the Camden Harbor Master, responded just before midnight Sunday, June 23, to a call for help from a moored power boat.
The man, 75, who was…
calling on neighbors .... the band plays on ..... Red Cross Blood Drive
Edith Ames first became known to the Lincolnville Historical Society as a name on a tag attached to a sample lobster bait bag. The tag, from a Portland company instructed her how to make the bait…
Steady wind fed the hot ash with oxygen
SEARSMONT — Hot ash from a biomass plant that had been piled too high in a storage area created enough combustion to burn wooden walls at at Robbins Lumber in Searsmont during the afternoon Sunday…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD School Committee
The Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District School Committee will hold a special meeting at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 25 in the Boothbay Region High School library, to vote on a new…
A crash in Jefferson Sunday night claimed the life of a Jefferson woman.
At approximately 7:59 p.m. Sunday, Lincoln County Communications Center received a report of a single-vehicle…
BELFAST — A man charged with murder in relation to the March 15 shooting death of Shane Sauer has been scheduled to stand trial in April 2020, should the…
Odds of hauling a calico lobster are 1-in-30 million
CAMDEN — When Camden resident Dominic Gioia hauled lobster this weekend, he had no idea he would make history.
Gioia and his wife, Liz, were on their boat the M/V …
BELFAST — As the lawsuit against Nordic Aquafarms, Inc., the City of Belfast, and other parties-in-interest continues the slow procession through the legal…
Parcel at intersection of Rtes 1, 90 may feature retail, residences
A group of Rockport elected officials and town employees met recently to discuss further plans for the development of the former Rockport Elementary School (RES) site at the corner of West and…
ROCKLAND — A cooking fire in a Rockland apartment of 25 Suffolk Street, Sunday, June 23, just prior to 3:17 p.m., kept area firefighters busy for a couple of hours. Read the Fire Chief’s report of…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Board of Environmental Protection agreed June 20 to assume licensing jurisdiction over the application of Nordic Aquafarms to site a salmon-raising enterprise in Belfast…
ROCKLAND — David Hoch knows the Region 8 building well. In fact, he and another Rockland resident owned it for a time, well before students learned to feel a pulse, oil a carburetor, or flambée a…
THOMASTON — Zero visibility within the second floor and wall paneling that was difficult to penetrate, slowed efforts to extinguish fire within a Thomaston home, Friday, June 21.
Heavy…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity June 14-21. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
June 14
Daniel G.…
BELFAST — Belfast Police reported the following activity June 17-21. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.
June 18
Sean L. Feeney, 38, of Wrentham,…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court June 7-13.
Jason Moulton, 36, of Searsport, probation violation in Belfast May 16, 2017, nine months in…
