News

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  Camden firefighters, search and rescue volunteers, park staff carry suffering hiker off mountain

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  June 12 update: Midcoast adds one new COVID-19 case

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  Maine’s COVID-19 death toll, again, rises by one

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  Camden tries new traffic flow around Rawson Ave., Ames Terrace

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  Governor Mills announces State of Civil Emergency ending June 30

Police, Fire & Courts

• Two vehicles catch fire in Ridgewood Drive driveway

• Two perish in Winterport fire

• Rockport Police beat

• Search in progress for suspected drowning victim at Swan Lake

• UPDATE: Silver Alert cancelled; Man with dementia found safe

• Camden Police to begin summer parking enforcement June 14

• UPDATED: Marine Patrol identifies fisherman recovered from Medomak River

• Does this belong to you? Rockland Police Dept. issues list of found items

• Defense lawyers say system crumbling under huge backlog, inadequate funding for indigent defendants

• Early-morning I-95 tractor trailer crash in Carmel to delay traffic Monday morning

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Obituaries

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  Sally E. Lash, obituary

  FRIENDSHIP — Sally Elizabeth Lash, 62, passed away, Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at the Sussman House in Rockport following a...
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  James B. Buhrendorf, obituary

  THOMASTON — James B. Buhrendorf, 68, of Thomaston, passed away at Maine Medical Center in Portland on May 7, 2021 after a...

• Norma Stinson, obituary

  LINCOLNVILLE — Norma Stinson, 68, of Lincolnville, Maine, passed away May 23, 2021 after an 18-month fight with cancer....
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  Charles H. Beach, obituary

  LIBERTY — Charles H. Beach, 96 of Liberty, Maine, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2021. He was born in Woodland, Maine...
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  Suzette L. Gilbert, obituary

  BELFAST — Suzette Lillian Gilbert, 71, died at her home in Belfast in May, 2021. She was born on June 23, 1949, and grew up...
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  Grace Glover, service and obituary

  Family and friends of Grace Glover, age 102, who died peacefully, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, are invited to visit Tuesday...

• William Newman, notice

  SOUTH THOMASTON — William Newman, 84, passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Sussman House in Rockport....
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  Jean K. Stickney, obituary

  BELFAST — Jean Kirk Stickney, 80 of Belfast, passed away on June 2, 2021, in Brewer, Maine. She was born on January 15,...
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  Robert A. Berry, service and obituary

  A graveside service for Robert A. Berry, 76, of Camden, who died on March 20, 2021 will be held Saturday, June 12, 2021...
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  Arthur M. Kennedy, service

  Arthur M. Kennedy, 89, of Union, passed away on January 16, in Florida. Survived by his wife of 66 years, Priscilla Kennedy...

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Elections

• Senate passes Sen. Maxmin bill to improve PAC finance laws

• Senate passes Sen. Maxmin’s bill to create semi-open primaries

• Giese elected to Thomaston select board

• Alley, Dyer elected to Vinalhaven select board

• Senate gives initial support to Sen. Miramant bill to expand ranked-choice voting

• On the issues: Camden Select Board Candidate Matthew J. Siegel

• On the issues: Camden Select Board Candidate Sophie Romana

• On the issues: Camden Select Board Candidate Peter Lindquist

• On the issues: Waldoboro Select Board candidate Abden Simmons

• On the issues: Warren Select Board Candidate Richard ‘Rick’ Butler

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• June 11 update: Midcoast adds three new COVID-19 cases

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine. Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the...

• Maine’s COVID-19 death toll rises by one

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 844. Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in Maine resulting in...
• Last Maine CDC update: june 10

  ZIP code COVID-19 case data: Knox, Waldo counties (and some of Lincoln County)

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated COVID-19 confirmed and probable case data by ZIP code. With the data update, the Maine CDC continues to urge all individuals in Maine — resident or not — to...

• June 10 update: Midcoast adds seven new COVID-19 cases

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine. Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the...
• Town proceeds with plans for internet agreement with Camden

  Hannan takes helm as Rockport Select Board Chair

  

  ROCKPORT — At a June 9 organizational meeting of a newly configured Rockport Select Board, Michelle Hannan was elected to serve as the board’s Chair for the remainder of her term, which expires in...

• Maine CDC provides COVID-19 briefing

  

  AUGUSTA — The following is the livestream of the Maine CDC press briefing for the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the status of Maine’s tracking, testing and vaccination. Briefings are held...

• Maine’s COVID-19 death toll rises by three

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced an additional three COVID-19 deaths in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 843. Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in Maine...

• June 9 update: Midcoast adds five new COVID-19 cases

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine. Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the...

• Rockport soundly defeats short-rental ordinance proposal

  

  ROCKPORT — A town meeting warrant article asking Rockport voters if they favored crafting a municipal ordinance regulating short-term rentals was defeated June 8. While 194 ballots were cast in favor...

• Rockland voters OK $33 million school budgets

  

  ROCKLAND — Voters in Rockland June 8 endorsed, 105 to 65, a $33,047,900 budget to fund Regional School Unit 13. They also approved (click here for the RSU budget questions) Article 2, 137 to 33, to...

• Pratt, Simmons win Waldoboro selectman seats; residents approve housing over park at A.D. Gray property

  

  WALDOBORO — Voters in the Town of Waldoboro voted on a series of municipal positions, budget items and municipal business Tuesday, June 8. William Pratt and Abden Simmons won the two open select...

• Appleton voters elect two new Select Board members, signal dissatisfaction with school budget

  

  APPLETON – Scott Esancy and Marci Moody Blakely secured seats on the Appleton Select Board following a three-way competition. The elections were held June 8 at annual town meeting, which again took...

• Hope votes in municipal elections: Bruce Haffner recall article ends in draw

  

  HOPE — Voters in Hope cast ballots Tuesday, June 8 on a multitude of municipal election items, including the potential recall of two municipal officials and proposed school budget articles. To read...

• How Lincolnville voted during municipal elections, annual town meeting

  

  LINCOLNVILLE — Voters in Lincolnville cast ballots Tuesday, June 8 for municipal seats, annual town meeting warrant articles, a proposed school budget for Lincolnville Central School and a proposed...

• Crabtree, McDonald elected to Warren select board

  

  WARREN — The Town of Warren voted June 8 on a series of municipal seats, highlighted by two select board openings. Below are the results of the municipal races. BOARD OF SELECTMEN, ASSESSOR,...
• Camden approves forming Midcoast Internet development Corp.

  Sophie Romana, Matt Siegel seated as Camden’s newest Select Board members

  

  CAMDEN — It was a strong turnout in Camden June 8 for another unusual annual town meeting, with 802 voters casting ballots. Citizens chose Sophie Romana with 525 votes, and Matt Siegel, with 490...

• Fuller, Justice elected to Union select board

  

  UNION — Voters in Union cast ballots June 8 for municipal officials and annual town meeting warrant items. To view a preview of what was on the ballot, click here. Below are the results of those...

• RSU 40 school budget voting results

  Voters within the Regional School Unit 40 school district voted on its proposed school budget Tuesday, June 8. The communities of Waldoboro, Union, Warren, Washington and Friendship make up the...

• Rockland City Council hears request for small pandemic-style parade, asks for something bigger

  

  ROCKLAND — When Jen Chapman approached Rockland City Council for permission to hold a small non-moving parade in the Industrial Park this summer, Council volleyed with a request for bigger and...

• Art Walk, pub crawl offer incentive to Rockland street closure proposals

  ROCKLAND — “In regards to the retail businesses on Main Street, the hours between 5 and 8 p.m. on First Friday Art Walks – those are the busiest days that we ever see in our store over the course of...

• Tracking Midcoast vaccination rates: How many in your town are vaccinated?

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its COVID-19 vaccination by ZIP code tacker. With the data update, the Maine CDC continues to urge all individuals in Maine — resident or not — to receive either...

• June 8 update: Midcoast adds three new COVID-19 cases

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine. Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the...

• Maine’s COVID-19 death toll rises by one

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 840. Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in Maine resulting in...

• Town of Owls Head joins Rapid Renewal Service

  

  AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has announced the Town of Owls Head has launched Rapid Renewal, the Department of the Secretary of State's online service for the renewal of motor vehicle...
• Silver Alert .... graduating grands ... virtual town meeting

  This Week in Lincolnville: Goings on Around Town

  

  It was with a big sigh of relief that news spread around town Sunday morning that Peter Bang had been found. Peter, according to his wife Shereen, who posted the first message Saturday afternoon that...

• June 7 update: Midcoast adds two new COVID-19 cases

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine. Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the...

• Knox County deed transfers

  ROCKLAND — The following deed transfers were recorded from May 31-June 4 at the Knox County Registry of Deeds. Appleton Rae I. Perry Est. to Bruce B. Perry. Craig. C. Nash to Bruce B. Perry....

• June 6 update: Midcoast adds five new COVID-19 cases

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine. Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the...
• a heat-sensing drone

  FOUND SAFE: K9 Search and Rescue team locates missing 83-year-old man

  

  Update - June 6, 2021: Rockland Fire/EMS flew their FLIR drone camera for almost an hour before locating a heat source that was ultimately proven to be a missing Lincolnville man. The FD...

• Rockland apartment fire quickly extinguished

  

  ROCKLAND — Rockland firefighters, along with mutual aid assistance from Camden and Rockport, quickly extinguished an apartment fire at 21 Fulton Street in Rockland. The call arrived mid-afternoon,...

• Some Maine State Ferry Service Islesboro-Lincolnville June 6 trips canceled

  ISLESBORO — The Maine State Ferry Service has announced trip cancellations between Islesboro and Lincolnville for Sunday, June 6 citing water run as the reason. “There may be more trips affected,...

• Mills introduces plan for $1 billion investment in families, businesses, communities, infrastructure

  

  AUGUSTA — The Mills Administration introduced legislation Friday to implement the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan, a nearly $1 billion proposal to spur Maine’s economic recovery from the pandemic,...

• June 5 update: Midcoast adds three new COVID-19 cases

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine. Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the...

• Maine’s COVID-19 death toll, again, rises by one

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 839. Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in Maine resulting in...

• Local legislators throw weight behind Midcoast Internet nonprofit initiative

  

  Voters in Camden, Rockport and Thomaston have the opportunity on June 8 to get the ball rolling for high speed broadband service for their towns, with universal access and fiber to the premises for...

• June 4 update: Midcoast adds six new COVID-19 cases

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated its list of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state of Maine. Each morning, the Maine CDC updates its COVID-19 data on its website with the...

• Maine’s COVID-19 death toll rises by one

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has announced an additional COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 838. Below is a table of all the COVID-19 cases in Maine resulting in...

• Valerie Stanfill unanimously confirmed as Maine’s next Chief Justice

  

  AUGUSTA — In a Thursday vote, the State of Maine Senate unanimously confirmed Justice Valerie Stanfill as Maine’s next Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, according to a news release...

• House advances McDonald bill decriminalizing hypodermic syringes

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine House gave its initial approval to a bill Wednesday that would decriminalize possession of hypodermic syringes, improving public health and ensuring more Mainers with substance...

• House approves Zeigler bill to support retirement program for volunteer first responders

  

  AUGUSTA — The Maine House of Representatives gave unanimous initial approval Wednesday to a bill that would provide state funding to Maine’s Length of Service Award Program (LOSAP), a program that...

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