UNION — The Union Select Board honored several citizens — John Gibbons, Argy Nestor and Tracy Weed — for their contributions to the town, and their community service.

The three were surprised June 3, at a regularly scheduled Select Board meeting, when Board Chair Adam…

Working in downtown Camden is always a bit of a pain in the summer. I know many locals who simply avoid the entire area from June to September, leaving it for our summer visitors. I am fortunate that my harborside office has a dedicated parking spot, and my love of back roads allows me to find creative ways to get to it.

ROCKLAND — Brian Harden believes he’s found a suitable building for the Rockland Historical Society artifacts that currently sit in storage. 8 North Main Street, itself a part of Rockland’s history, known recently as the former Free Press building, is on the market. For the Society, the Nor…

BELFAST — The downtown streets of Belfast were inundated with rainbow flags as participants and supporters gathered for the annual Belfast Has Pride parade. The procession traveled from Belfast Area High School on Waldo Ave, down Main Street to its conclusion in Heritage P…

Preparations for the 119th Camden High School Alumni Banquet which will be held Friday, August 8, at the Elks Lodge, 210 Rankin Street, Rockland, have begun with a meeting of the CHS Alumni Association. More information will be available soon.

This year’s Banquet will include reserved tabl…

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…

UNION — On the afternoon of May 1, Paul Rietz was reading in a chair by the window of his home overlooking Seven Tree Pond — "like I normally do," he laughed, "I'm retired."

But he was suddenly startled to see the painters with whom he had contracted to paint his house were fiddling with the…

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 T…

"We're updating our State Wildlife Action Plan, and we need YOUR input to shape the future of conservation," said the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, June 3, in a newsletter.

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.

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.

BELFAST — The Belfast City Council will meet Tuesday, June 3, for its regularly scheduled meeting, to address an agenda that includes the appointment of two new City employees, a letter to lower the speed limit on Swan Lake Ave, and an election reminder. 

BELFAST — The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court May 22-28. 

Don. W. Hanson Jr., 44, of Thomaston, probation violation in Waldo County April 11, 2019, two days in jail, probation partially revoked and continued. 

Maine Department of Transportation's Rockland rail branch, that includes Wiscasset, is starting to see regular rail traffic again; it's freight and, by fall, might be excursion, too.

I am once again in an airport, for the second time in a month, and waiting to get back home to Maine, to Lincolnville. While my trip to Northern California at least included features that seem familiar to a boy from rural Maine, the Las Vegas Strip could not feel more different.

I miss my little town, m…

The Waldo County Democratic Committee will host a speaker on Federal Spending Cuts and their Impact on Mainers, June 8, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Maine Center for Economic Policy President Garrett Martin, in person.

Belfast Free Library, 106 High Street, Belfast…

The Curtis Island Lighthouse Foundation, in partnership with the Town of Camden, announced the successful installation of a new flagpole on Curtis Island, completed over Memorial Day weekend. The new flagpole replaces the pole destroyed in a storm a few years ago.

One of the most time-honored traditions of towns that produce annual reports — the summation of a year's work for the sake of a municipality, and the projected costs to make it thrive in the coming year — is the dedication of that repor

BELFAST — The following indictments were handed up by a Waldo County grand jury May 22.

Dakota L. Brann, 28, of Warren, aggravated criminal mischief in Belfast March 17; violating a condition of release in Belfast March 17. 

ROCKLAND - The following deed transfers were recorded in the Knox County Registry of Deeds May 26-30.

Appleton

Elizabeth J. Benozer and Elizabeth Siegel to Ethan Siegel.

Camden

Dina Amsel to Andrei Moskowitz.

Hope

Steven Bowman to Samuel Pease…

The legislature’s judiciary committee defied a warning from the chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday, pressing ahead with efforts to examine how the judicial branch handles ethics complaints against its judges. 

BELFAST — The following deed transfers were recorded in the Waldo County Registry of Deeds May 19-23.

Belfast

Joshua Solebello to Tyler N. Shany-Werner. 

Jeanie F. Ward Est. to James S. Merkel and Susan Cutting. 

Archibald H. Davis and Amy M. Fr…

NOBLEBORO — A Florida man, 74, drowned after attempting to swim after his boat that drifted away from shore, according to a news release from the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. 

BELFAST — Belfast Police reported the following activity May 14-29.

An arrest or summons does not constitute a conviction, and those charged are considered innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Juveniles aged 17-or-younger are not named.

May 14

BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity May 4-26.

An arrest or summons does not constitute a conviction, and those charged are considered innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Juveniles aged 17-or-younger are not named.

May 4

Rockland’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee invites the community to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Bog Overlook Trail on Saturday, June 7, at 10 a.m.

The Maine Semiquincentennial Commission, chaired by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, is launching the Maine Atlas Project this week, with funding and support from the Maine Office of Tourism. 

There will be a community effort to clean Rockport Common, June 1 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Rockport Common, formerly known as the RES site, is at 40 West Street, in Rockport, where a new community park is being created.

The clean-up will take place from 1 to 1:45 p.m., following by music and pizza, until 3 p.m.