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ROCKLAND — The following deed transfers were recorded in the Knox County Registry of Deeds Jan. 9-13.
Appleton
Robert J. Bocko to Robert J. Bocko and Violetta M.…
BELFAST — Saturday, Jan. 14, at 5:39 p.m., Belfast Police received a 911 call of a reported shooting, and death, at a…
ROCKPORT — For the first time in three years, the Maine Fishermen’s Forum is holding a live event at the Samoset Resort March 2-4, 2023. This event is a…
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AUGUSTA — Maine’s Blue Ribbon Commission on EMS released its final report Jan. 12 to the Legislature, detailing recommendations for improving…
CORRECTION (Jan. 20) — A Knox County Jail guard who allegedly assaulted a female inmate is currently incarcerated in the Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth. It was incorrectly reported on Jan. 13…
LINCOLNVILLE — Frances Adeline Hastings Knight, 91, passed away December 31, 2022 due to natural causes, surrounded by family in the home she built with her husband and raised her three sons.…
ROCKPORT — Robin A. Mahoney passed away suddenly and unexpected of natural causes, Friday, January 6, 2023. Robin had suffered with declining health for the past 10 years and lost her battle with…
ROCKPORT — Kevin Alden Dow, 68, passed away on December 30, 2022, at Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport, following a cardiac event. Born in Camden on April 3, 1954, he was the son of Alden and…
LINCOLNVILLE BEACH — Patricia Ann Ballou, 87, widow of Richard Ballou Sr., died at Knox Center For Long Term Care in Rockland, on January 6, 2023.
A complete obituary will be published…
Long time Owls Head town treasurer, Pam Curtis, was presented with a plaque of appreciation by Select Board Chair Gordon Page. Curtis, who has worked for the town for more than a decade, retired…
A Wiscasset District Court judge Jan. 11 dismissed a protection order complaint at the request of the woman who filed it – the mother of an Edgecomb 3-year-old whose death has been ruled a…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Thursday that Dr. Nirav Shah, Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), has been appointed Principal Deputy Director at…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Department reported the following activity Dec. 20 - Jan. 3.
An arrest or summons…
ROCKLAND — The following deed transfers were recorded in the Knox County Registry of Deeds Jan. 2-6.
Appleton
Randy McKee and Morgan McKee to Richard A. Davis and…
BELMONT — Barbara Anne Emery, 84, of Belmont, passed away of natural causes at Harbor Hill Center in Belfast on January 2, 2023. She was born in Searsmont on July 22, 1938, the daughter of Everett…
Victim reportedly died due to ligature strangulation and blunt force trauma
BELFAST — The man accused of murdering his former friend in Lincolnville Jan. 5, will learn if he is eligible for bail at a proceeding scheduled for Feb. 6. …
BELFAST — Belfast Police reported the following activity Dec. 22 - Jan. 3.
An arrest or summons does not constitute a…
ROCKPORT — A U.S. Postal Service delivery truck and a Volvo station wagon experienced a near head-on crash, that also involved a third vehicle, around 10:30 a.m., Wednesday morning on Route 1 in…
UPDATE (Jan.11) ROCKLAND — Michelle Heald, 45, of Waldoboro, is back in the Knox County Jail after being arrested by Rockland Police Jan. 10 on multiple charges.
Rockland Police were called…
Knox County Gleaners is spearheading the project
UNION—The community organization Knox County Gleaners is getting closer to its goal of building a community kitchen in Union.
Nancy Wood, SNAP Ed Nutrition…
Planes can still take off from and land at Wiscasset Municipal Airport this morning, Wednesday, Jan. 11 as the Federal Aviation Administration addresses a communications system issue, Airport…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court Dec. 29 - Jan. 5.
Keith E. Chase, 65, of…
LINCOLNVILLE — Jamie Clark Cole, 58, died of cardiac arrest December 22, 2022. He was born May 13,1964, in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of Katherine (Davidson) and John Owen Cole.
Jamie,…
CAMDEN — Eunice Roth Michaels, 96, of Camden, died on January 5, 2023 at Lakewood Long Term Care in Waterville.
A complete obituary will be published later.
Condolences and…
BELFAST — The following divorces were recently recorded in Belfast District Court.
Brandi A. Kazarian, of Jackson, and…
Both incidents in shoreland zone on land abutting harbors
CAMDEN and ROCKPORT — Through its own lab analysis, the Maine Bureau of Pesticide Control confirmed that the herbicide…
SOUTH THOMASTON — Florence E. ‘Flo’ Leach, 76, died Thursday, January 5, 2023, at her home surrounded by her family.
Born at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, February…
ROCKLAND – Wayne P. Nelson, 81, died peacefully after a brief illness surrounded by the love of his family, Thursday, December 29, 2022 at the Sussman Hospice house in Rockport.
Born in…
BELFAST — Mario “Butch” J. Nardone passed away at 95 on January 6, 2023 at Tall Pines, Belfast, Maine after a brief illness. He was born on June 4, 1927 in Lynn, Massachusetts to the late Mario…
VINALHAVEN — An eight-year-old Vinalhaven boy was treated and released from Eastern Maine Medical Center after he was struck by a deflected .22 caliber bullet yesterday afternoon, Sunday, Jan. 9…
‘Negotiators attempted to negotiate the suspect out of the vehicle for several hours with no success.”
BELFAST — A Brooks man has been arrested following a police pursuit at slow speeds through multiple towns.
On January 9, 2023, at approximately 2:36 a.m., Belfast Officers stopped a…
SWANVILLE — Dennis Irving Sholes, 71, moved onto his next adventure January 3, 2023, where he’s having a “smoke,” listening to the birds, watching the clouds and embracing the warm sun. Surrounded…
BELFAST — Ramona H. Dorgan, 88, entered her eternal home on Sunday, December 18, 2022 at Tall Pines Nursing Home in Belfast, Maine, where she had resided for the past 9 years.
Ramona was…
ROCKLAND — William O. ‘Bill’ Rytky, Jr, 78, died January 6, 2023 at Maine Medical Center in Portland after a period of declining health. Born in Rockland, October 9, 1944, he was the son of…
MORRILL — Catherine Ann Reynolds, 63, of Morrill, passed away on January 5, 2023, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on September 28, 1959, in Belfast.
Cathy is survived…
CAMDEN — Douglass C. Knowlton, 32, of Camden, passed away after a brief illness, in Boston, Massachusetts. Douglass was born on September 28, 1990, in Rockland, Maine to Scott D. Knowlton and…
Making it to March... Be kind... Snow birds...
I met my wife in July, a long time ago. Things always seem better in the summer in Maine. In our early relationship, as things started to get serious,…
CAMDEN — On Friday, Jan. 6, North East Mobile Health was already busy on a call in Lincolnville when another medical issue presented in Camden. When Rockland EMS couldn’t take the call, Thomaston…
WARREN — Korena Widdecombe Morse, 60, went home to be with the Lord on December 24, 2022, passing peacefully at her home.
Korena was a very giving person and would often go without to…
ROCKLAND — A Searsport woman remains in jail after she was arrested Dec. 31 for allegedly causing injuries to a man with a knife during an argument in Union.
Clare Malmstrom, 47, was…
Unresponsive male found Friday morning
LINCOLNVILLE — On Friday, January 6, 2023 at approximately 9:39 a.m., the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from 54 Thorndike Road in Lincolnville for an unresponsive male.
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WARREN — Responders had a couple of minutes on their side in regards to a house fire on Highland Road, in Warren, Saturday afternoon, due to mutual aid already being in response mode.
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Joyce Herndon Pendleton died peacefully at age 99 on December 29, 2022, at Sussman House in Rockport. She was born on August 4, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia to C.B. Kate and O. E. Herndon.
She…
ELLSWORTH — “Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital is delighted to announce the community’s first baby of the year,” said the hospital, in a news release.
Owen Lawrence, son of Sarah and…
ROCKPORT and BELFAST — The birth centers at Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General have welcomed their first babies of 2023.
At PBMC, mom Lauren Swegle and dad Alex Abud welcomed…
ROCKLAND — Rockland Police are asking for the public's help in locating two vehicles recently stolen from Rockland.
One vehicle is a silver 2004 Kia Amanti with Maine registration 5194XJ…
ROCKPORT — Sharon (House) Rowling, 79, passed away on December 25, 2022, with her husband and friend, Charles Rowling, by her side, at home in Rockport. Born in Augusta on April 10, 1943, she was…
CAMDEN — Since mid-September, post office box holders in Camden, as well as customers used to visiting their local post office as they…
Declaring “Hope Is Very Much Alive” in Maine, Governor Mills was sworn in to second term as Governor, January 4, 2023 at the Augusta Civic Center. Her speech follows:
Mr. President…
