GLEN COVE — Gina Elizabeth Fowlie, 64, went home to be with her Lord, peacefully, Saturday, April 27, 2024 following a brief period of declining health.
Born January 7, 1960 in Rockland she…
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On May 2, the RSU 40 Board of Directors voted to certify its 2024-2025 budget of $37,619,219 and send it to the five towns comprising the…
ROCKLAND — A passerby was first in reporting a single-vehicle crash at 126 Pleasant Street, in Rockland, on May 3, 2024, but the homeowner was close behind.
According to responding police…
ROCKLAND – Knox Regional Communications Center returned to a fully independent emergency telecommunications operation on May 1, 2024, at approximately 9:30 a.m.
For eight and a half months…
LIBERTY — A three vehicle crash in Liberty today resulted in two people being transported to the hospital, one via LifeFlight of Maine, the other via ambulance, according to a press release from…
BELFAST — Belfast Police reported the following activity April 13-25.
An arrest or summons does not constitute a…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity April 18-25.
An arrest or summons does not…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court April 19-25.
Sean C. Baker, 50, of Unity,…
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BELFAST — When you hear the word “transportation,” you may think first of planes, trains, and automobiles, according to the City of Belfast, in a news release. But walking, cycling, and rolling in…
BELFAST — The following deed transfers were recorded in the Waldo County Registry of Deeds April 15-19.
Belfast
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CAMDEN — A graveside service for Richard W. “Deacon” Ward, Sr., 79, of Camden who died on January 22, 2024, will be held Saturday, May 18, 2024, at 11 a.m., at the Mountain View Cemetery in Camden…
I got the text Saturday afternoon from Ma, the lady who lives downstairs. She had written an article, if I want to use it. It is now well…
Schools in Maine benefited from free weekend program
OWLS HEAD—Owls Head Transportation Museum held its second annual STEM Fest 2024 on April 26 and 27— this time expanding over a full…
Maine Office of Tourism announced its 2024 Maine Tourism Awards on April 25 in Portland, presenting the Governor’s Award for Tourism Excellence to Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in recognition of…
THORNDIKE — Clair E. Hustus passed away October 20, 2023. A celebration of life will be held May 11, 2024, at 3 p.m., at Audrey Hustus' residence.
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KNOX COUNTY — Temperatures in Knox County climbed above 60 degrees, Monday, April 29. With that rise in temps, 911 calls of varying degrees kept responders busy throughout traditional work-day…
ROCKLAND — A graveside committal service for Andrue Leach, who died November 10, 2023, will be held Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 10 a.m., at West Rockport Cemetery, Park Street, Rockport.
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Anna ‘Lorene’ Shute passed away on April 25, 2024, exactly 6 years to the day of the departure of much loved husband, Kenneth.
She was born July 10, 1930 in Yanceyville, North Carolina to…
ROCKLAND — A graveside committal service for Carl J. Patch who died November 15, 2023, and his father C. B. (Carl) Patch who passed May 20, 2016, will be held Monday, May 6, at 10 a.m., at Seaside…
BELMONT — On April 29, 2024 the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at 425 Augusta Road, in the town of Belmont. The search warrant was the result of an ongoing investigation…
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BANGOR — A Troy woman has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor to Social Security fraud, health care fraud, and theft of public money.
According to court records, from about…
ROCKLAND — Cathy Shaer, a writer, artist, and innkeeper (and wife, mother and grandmother), passed away peacefully in April at her home in Rockland, surrounded by family and friends. She was 76.…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court April 12-18.
Francis E. Richardson III, 29, of…
ROCKLAND — The following deed transfers were recorded in the Knox County Registry of Deeds April 22-26.
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Phyllis May Palmer Young Est. to Asia Durr and John…
WALDOBORO — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency announces the arrest of two people during the execution of a search warrant at a residence on Finntown Road in Waldoboro following a months-long…
LINCOLNVILLE — Rachel A. Young, age 86, beloved widow of Bernard Young, passed away on April 25, 2024.
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MANSFIELD, Massachusetts — Andrea Lee Norris, 75, passed away on April 4, 2024.
Andrea leaves an indelible impression on those who called her mother, grandmother, sister, cousin, friend,…
WALDO — Mary Jane Coleman, 76, of Waldo, passed away on April 6, 2024 in Bangor.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 1 p.m., at the Belfast United Methodist Church…
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This afternoon, April 26, at 4 p.m., the Camden Historic Resources Committee and the Camden Select Board are touring the Montessori School (Elm Street School) and then returning to the Town Office…
Knox County to resume 911 dispatch status in May
The month of April has been National County Government Month and Knox County has…
In honor of Earth Day 2024, U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Maine State Director Rhiannon Hampson announced that USDA is awarding $2.1 million in grants to Maine farms and rural…
HOPE — Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said April 23 that 10 Maine businesses in electoral District 1 are receiving $657,000 in renewable energy grants, courtesy of the federal Inflation…
Celebrating Independent Bookstore Day across Maine April 27
MAINE—I have a theory about books you were meant to find and those which were meant to find you—treat a bookstore like the open road and…
A man being held at Two Bridges Regional Jail has hung himself, in the third suicide since Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties opened the facility on Wiscasset’s Route One in 2006, authorities told…
ROCKPORT — David Hodgkins Jinno died Friday, April 19, 2024. Born in Portland, Maine October 1, 1938, he was the son of Josephine and Shigeyo Jinno.
He spent his early years in New York…
School rally held April 26
The Maine Principal’s Association has named Medomak Valley High School Principal Linda Pease as the 2024 Maine Principal of the Year.
“Mrs. Pease receives this award because of her belief…
Update: April 25, 2024: A fire at a house on Levenseller Pond has been ruled accidental, according to the Searsmont Fire Chief.
No one was in the residence at the time of the fire…
Turning cooking and science into a multimedia presentation
CAMDEN – Ninety-plus eighth grade students at Camden-Rockport Middle School participated in an inter-scholastic, inter-disciplinary challenge focusing on food. Anchored in science, the project…
BELFAST — The following deed transfers were recorded in the Waldo County Registry of Deeds March 25 - April 5.
Belfast
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ROCKLAND —As Sally Levi continues her plans to site an ice cream stand at Sandy Beach in the South end of Rockland, neighbors opposed to the proposed business have focused on parking regulations…
WALDOBORO — Merle E. Prock, 86, passed away in his home in Waldoboro on Monday, April 22, 2024. He was surrounded by his loving wife and children in the place he always loved to be.
Merle…
The Lesher Family Foundation and the Town of Rockport are soliciting feedback from the community about the three potential designs for the park being built at the former RES site.
LFF's…
BELFAST — Belfast Police reported the following activity April 11-20.
An arrest or summons does not constitute a…
ROCKLAND — Glenna Rae Hescock, age 95, of Rockland, Maine, and formerly of Holliston, Massachusetts, died on April 15, 2024, in Camden, Maine, with her daughters by her side.
Glenna was…
THOMASTON — A graveside committal service with military honors, for Robert F. ‘Bob’ Watts, Jr. who died, March 16, 2024, will be held Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 10 a.m., at Village Cemetery, Erin…
BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity April 10 - 20.
An arrest or summons does…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court April 5-11.
Larry G. Alexander, 66, of Shushan…
Update: April 23: WARREN — The three women who were arrested by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) following a month-long investigation into illegal drug trafficking at a residence in Warren…
Update: April 23, 2024 — In a telephone conversation following a barn fire on Appleton Ridge Road, the Appleton Fire Chief and an investigator from the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office agreed…
BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court April 5-11.
Larry G. Alexander, 66, of Shushan…
