CAMDEN and ROCKPORT — CamdenCAN will host the free Third Annual Camden-Rockport Food Garden Tour on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026, with a rain date of Sunday, Aug. 30. The free community event invites residents and visitors to explore local food gardens, meet the people who tend them, and exchange practical ideas about growing food in Midcoast Maine.

Eureka Masonic Lodge, 4 Watts Avenue, Tenants Harbor, is offering Crab or Shrimp Rolls on Wednesday, Aug. 19.

For the price of $15, treat yourself to either a Crab or Shrimp Roll on a toasted bun, a bag of potato chips, a homemade dessert and a bottle of water.

This is curbside pick-up and starts at 11:30 a.m. until sold out. The last sale of the season will be Sept. 2. The Lodge looks forward to serving you.

Vanessa MacDougall got Milo as a kitten. Now 15-20 pounds and 9 years old, Milo has been the subject of an extensive search in the Gardiner Road (Route 27) area of Wiscasset since Aug. 12. MacDougall had him in a carrier at 9:20 a.m. in the parking lot of Wiscasset Veterinary Hospital, where his hurt paw was going to get checked, MacDougall told Wiscasset Newspaper Aug. 17. She said he pushed against the carrier door and it came completely off.

The Waldo is excited to have DakhaBrakha (pronounced “da-ha bra-ha”) a world-music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine performing on Sunday, Aug. 2 at 7:30 pm.

AUGUSTA — The Maine State Beekeepers Association will mark its 50th year with the 2026 Bee Fest, a free public celebration of bees, beekeeping, honey, and Maine’s pollinator community, Sunday, Sept. 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Viles Arboretum, 133 Hospital Street, Augusta, Maine.

Bee Fest welcomes current beekeepers, people considering their first hive, families, gardeners, food enthusiasts, and anyone curious about the vital role honey bees play in Maine’s environment and agricultural landscape.

The Tomato Tasting will return for an encore at Merryspring Nature Center on Saturday, Sept. 12, from noon to 3 p.m.  

The format for this year’s tasting will be much like last year’s, which drew about 50 participants, according to Merryspring, in a news release. The event begins with expert speakers who will focus on growing tomatoes, different seed-saving techniques, and which varieties to select for your garden. That will be followed by the Tomato Tasting itself.

The 2026 campaign kicks off Thursday, August 20, at the Augusta National Guard Armory, and will be followed by monthly in-person hiring events throughout the state.

"You're invited!" said Maine Dept. of Labor, in a news release. "Are you looking for a new career? Maybe you are transitioning from military service, or just looking for a change?"

Maine's annual Hire-A-Vet Campaign is a statewide effort with the goal of at least 100 employers hiring at least 100 veterans and military family members during a 100-day period.

Lincolnville Center Indoor Flea Market will be held Saturday, Aug. 15, from 8 a.m. to noon, in the Community Building, at 18 Searsmont Road, Rt. 173 in Lincolnville CENTER. 

This market offers a wide variety of merchandise from the useful to the unusual including vintage household goods, seasonal decorations, handcrafts, farm products and delectable sweet and savory baked goods.

Jock Robie will lead a free indoor Worm Bin Harvest workshop at Merryspring Nature Center on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 5:30 p.m. 

ROCKPORT — Join Coastal Mountains Land Trust, the Camden Public Library and the Central Maine Astronomical Society "for a magical evening under the stars," said CMLT, in a news release.

The event takes place Monday, Aug. 17, at 7 p.m., at Beech Hill Preserve.

CUSHING — Join Georges River Land Trust (GRLT) for the final SEED event with artist Lihua Lei Farley on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 2 - 4 p.m.

Last week, over 250 friends and supporters of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences came together for an evening of discovery and inspiration. Through the Big Splash fundraiser, the institute raised over $800,000 in sponsorships and bids — far exceeding the original fundraising goal — all of which will go to support the institute’s “bold science for our blue planet.”

BELFAST — The Waldo County YMCA and Waldo Community Action Partners (WCAP) are partnering to launch a new back to school tradition, School-a-Palooza, on Sunday, Aug. 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Waldo County YMCA. This free community event is designed to help Waldo County students head back to the classroom feeling prepared, supported and motivated. 

From 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on August 22, Greg Larsen will open his garden at 17 Tuva Trail in Lincolnville as the final event in the 2026 Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Days. The event will be held rain or shine. Admission is $5.

"This lovely space tucked into a woodland area in Lincolnville boasts an abundance of specimen trees," said the Garden Club, in a news release.

Larsen says his fascination with what trees can do and with their diversity and longevity in the landscape inspired his “mini-arboretum.”

This week the Maine Gun Safety Coalition is partnering with local law enforcement to host free lockbox giveaways as part of National Night Out events across the state.

MGSC volunteers will join law enforcement officers in multiple locations, including Aug. 4, in Auburn, Biddeford, and Kennebunk, and Thursday, Aug. 6, in Augusta, to hand out free firearm lockboxes to families with children to promote secure storage of firearms.

Mary Cee, a practicing Marriage and Family Therapist for over two decades and a recovering alcoholic, will present on her book, In the Rooms: A Therapist’s Guide to Getting and Staying Sober, Thursday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m., at the Thomaston Public Library. This collaborative community event is co-sponsored by Cushing and Thomaston public libraries, and is free and open to the public.

Cee "will bring a wealth of personal and professional experience to the presentation," said a library news release.

ROCKLAND  - The theme of the 2026 Maine Lobster Festival Parade "Rise and Renewal" is a tribute to a 2019 book, with the same title, written by parade Grand Marshal John Bird, a local historian. According to the Lobster Festival’s webpage, “this theme will celebrate both Bird’s 500-word tome and the history of our community in the wake of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.”