New Hope Midcoast (newhopemidcoast.org), the Regional Domestic Violence Resource Center serving Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, and Waldo Counties since 1981, will hold its annual sale of high-quality new and gently used clothing and accessories for all sizes and seasons, and for everyone in the family, July 10-12, at the Flangan Community Center, 61 Limerock Street, in Rockland.

The Rockport High School Alumni Association will be celebrating its 131st anniversary with a meeting and banquet at the Rockland Elks Lodge, at 220 Rankin Street, in Rockport on Saturday July 19, at 4 p.m.

"We look forward to seeing all those who attended the yellow school on the hill through the class of 1968," the organizers said. "Plenty of time to meet and greet old friends and neighbors and a chance to win several door prizes."

Join naturalist and avid outdoor educator Meg Selkie, Sunday, June 29, at 10 a.m., at the Ducktrap Preserve, in Lincolnville, for Nature Program: Sleuthing for Animal Signs, free nature program. 

Selkie will take the group on a walk along the Ducktrap River discovering signs of its inhabitants and the extensive habitats in this ecologically diverse preserve. This fun walk is free, family friendly, and open to all.

On Sunday, June 29, there will be four unique events taking place in downtown Waldoboro to celebrate Pride.

The day starts with Drag Storytime at Perch, followed by a conversation at the Open House of History on Main Street, then a luncheon and street fair at Broad Bay Church, and finally back across to The Waldoboro Inn for a tea dance.

On Wednesday, June 18, at 6 p.m., the Peace and Justice Forum /Waldo County will gather for a Circle for Poetry and Resistance  in solidarity with the Palestinian people. 

The public is invited to share the group's resistance to share at the Abbott Room, Belfast Free Library. For more information, contact peace.and.justice.waldo@gmail.com

“I’ve come to realize what gifts a garden can give, if the person is open to receiving them,” Donna Fancy mused recently. “Patience is one of these gifts.” Her development of what was once a bare construction site has taken place over two decades, and will be shared with the public on Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., as part of the Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Days. The garden is located at 33 Londonderry Lane in Belfast. Admission is $5.

This event has been cancelled.

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There are several options for speaking face to face with family, friends or coworkers over a device connected to the internet. Rockland Public Library will hold a class on the topic Friday, June 27, at 2 p.m. Registration is required.  

In the class, attendees will look at some of the most popular options out there including Zoom with a short tutorial on navigating the Zoom room. No devices are required, just bring yourself.

ROCKPORT — On Saturday, July 12, Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) will host a garden workshop for families with children between the ages of seven to twelve. Kids and adults will learn all about bugs and weeds through hands-on activities and games in the learning garden.   

The workshop will be held from 9 to 10 a.m., at Erickson Fields Preserve, 164 West Street, in Rockport, where MCHT hosts an active Community Garden and operates a 4-acre vegetable farm producing 17,000+ pounds of produce annually for food assistance sites and more.     

Belfast Free Library’s Youth Summer Reading Program Level Up kicks off with environmental educators from Chewonki, Monday, June 30, from 2-3 pm.

This lecture is appropriate for ages 6 and up, and will explore what makes predator animals so unique and important. The lecture will include three live predator animals. 

ROCKPORT — MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital welcomes Ashley Mychak, DPM, FACFAS, to its Podiatry team. Dr. Mychak specializes in the Lapiplast 3D Bunion Correction Procedure, a procedure that MHPBH will now be able to offer for the first time.

ROCKPORT — To celebrate the opening of its new Cardiac Rehab gym, MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital will hold an open house for patients and community members Wednesday, June 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the gym’s new home inside the Pen Bay Physicians Building, located at 4 Glen Cove Drive, Suite 109, Rockport.

Guests are welcome to meet members of the Cardiac Rehab team, tour the new facility and enjoy light refreshments.

For more information, call 207-301-8989.

CAMDEN — Bob Josselyn, of Hope, was thumbing through the online listings of e-bay a few months ago, something he does periodically, with his notifications set to Camden, Maine. Whether coincidence or synchronicity, he got lucky. An image of the Megunticook Yearbook for the Camden High School Class of 1925 popped up, and $2 later, it was his.

Several Thomaston Grammar School students were recognized for the attribute of courage at a schoolwide assembly on June 2. The assembly also announced the month's Principal Award winner and revealed the yearbook and teacher dedication.

The Rockport Garden Club will hold its June monthly meeting on Thursday, June 5, with Cindy Wright as the guest speaker, starting promptly at 1 p.m. The program will highlight “Establishing a Wildflower Meadow or Garden Patch with Wildflower Seeds.”

ROCKPORT and BELFAST — MaineHealth Pen Bay and Waldo hospitals announce the launch of a secure and convenient medication take-back program on their campuses. Both hospitals have installed new take-back kiosks within their main lobbies, offering year-round, no-cost disposal for residents of Knox and Waldo counties. The kiosks provide a place for community members to safely discard unused, expired or leftover prescription and over-the- counter medications.

Ground-level ozone concentrations are expected to reach the ‘Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups’ (USG) level according to Air Quality Meteorologists at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. 

Ozone is expected to reach USG levels along the coast from Kittery through Acadia National Park on both Wednesday and Thursday, according to the Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection.

On a rainy Tuesday morning in early May, Daphne Russell, a community paramedic with United Ambulance Service, knocks on the door of a home in Lewiston. She’s there, as she is each Tuesday, to check on one of her patients: monitoring vitals and sorting through medications.

The visit is a part of a United’s community paramedicine program, in which staff provide free, in-home primary care to patients who have been referred by hospitals or primary care providers, in an effort to reduce hospitalizations and decrease the number of ambulance rides and emergency department visits.

CAMDEN — Here they come! The shout went up just as the Camden Hills Regional High School Class of 2025, lead by bagpiper Catherine  Pearce and a Camden Police cruiser flashing a blue light, appeared at the top of Main Street in downtown Camden, near the public library.

Traffic was halted along the road — the evening busy Route 1 — to make way for the proud high school almost-graduates, who were marching with pride and beaming smiles left and right at families, friends and well-wishers who had lined to sidewalks to cheer them on with whoops and hollers.

Vose Library will hold a Plant and Bake Sale, Saturday, June 7, from 8 a.m. - 1 p.m., at 329 Common Rd., Union, Maine.

The Rockland Public Library and Bartlett Woods Retirement Community present a screening of Shelf Life from Executive Producer Robyn Metcalfe, directed by Ian Cheney.