On June 10, Camden will vote for two candidates from a field of four candidates to serve on the School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8) and Five Town CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School) school boards. 

Lincolnville is taking steps to strengthen the community by enrolling in the Community Resilience Partnership, a state-supported program that helps towns plan and fund local projects that improve safety, infrastructure, and emergency preparedness. 

Next month, Bigelow Laboratory will officially celebrate the opening of the Harold Alfond Center for Ocean Education and Innovation, which will transform the institute’s education and solutions-focused work. The new space is being named in honor of Harold Alfond to celebrate the generous support…

On June 10, voters in Camden will consider two candidates — Bobbi Oxton Blake and Christopher Rheault — seeking to fill one open Select Board seat being vacated by current Chair Tom Hedstrom. That seat carries a three-year term.

On June 10, Rockport will vote for two candidates from a field of three candidates to serve on the School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8) and Five Town CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School) school boards for a three-year term. There is also an open one-year term due to…

LINCOLNVILLE — Lincolnville is taking steps to strengthen the community by enrolling in the Community Resilience Partnership, a state-supported program that helps towns plan and fund local projects that improve safety, infrastructure, and emergency preparedness.

In December 2023, a ferocious storm rose out of the Gulf of Maine, the likes of which Downeasters hadn’t seen in a generation — if ever. It was as if Neptune himself, Roman god of the seas, conjured the storm as a warning to better protect planet Earth.

LIBERTY — Midcoast Conservancy has transfered the Haystack Mountain property to Georges River Land Trust, "a move designed to ensure the long-term protection, stewardship, and public enjoyment of a beloved midcoast Maine landmark," said Midcoast Conservancy, in…

AUGUSTA — On Tuesday, May 13, Sen. Pinny Beebe-Center, D-Rockland, welcomed Pastor Jamie Bickel of South Hope Community Church in Hope to the State House to deliver the opening invocation.

Camden and Rockport, in partnership with Camden Climate Action Now (CamdenCAN), received a joint Community Action Grant from the Maine Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future.

CAMDEN — US Army Staff Sergeant Ben Hazen is the 2025 Memorial Day Parade Marshal.

Hazen will also be the Memorial Day speaker at various stops along the War Memorial Post 30 American Legion parade routes in its local communities.

The General Henry Knox Museum invites the community to its 12th Annual Boots on the Ground event. This Memorial Weekend celebration honors veterans, military personnel, and their families. The event will take place on Saturday, May 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the grounds of Montpelier, which is the big white house just off Route 1…

Maine's Department of Education, in partnership with the nonprofit Educate Maine, announced the 16 County Teachers of the Year for 2025 on May 14, at the Hall of Flags in the State Capitol.

On June 10, Rockport will vote for two candidates from a field of three candidates to serve on the School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8) and Five Town CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School) school boards for a three-year term. There is also an open one-year term due to the resignation o…

On June 10, Camden will vote for two candidates from a field of four candidates to serve on the School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8) and Five Town CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School) school boards. 

On June 10, Camden will vote for two candidates from a field of four candidates to serve on the School Administrative District 28 (Camden-Rockport K-8) and Five Town CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School) school boards. 

The Megunticook River Citizens Advisory Committee is hosting a discussion of the recommendation for Camden's Montgomery Dam this evening, May 14, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Camden-Rockport Middle School in Bisbee Theater.  

This pertains to the 2025 Camden Town Meeting Ballot Article 7,…

ROCKPORT — For years, it was simply RES ("taking the kids over to RES to play T-ball). Then it was "the former RES" or "the old RES", or to be really specific, "the former Rockport Elementary School site on West Street." 

But no more.

DAMARISCOTTA — The Maine Warden Service is assisting the Damariscotta Police Department in the search for a missing Damariscotta man. 

BELFAST — The following divorces were recently recorded in Belfast District Court. 

Melissa S. Crossman, of Bangor, and Shawn B. Crossman, of Winterport, were married June 7, 2016, in Whitehouse, Jamaica, and divorced April 30. 

After decades of understaffing, underfunding and dire warnings about the condition of Maine’s dam safety agency, state lawmakers are now considering expansive legislation that would revamp the office in charge of overseeing hundreds of aging Maine dams and set aside funds to fix them.

In 1820, Joshua Lamb began building the old meeting house in Lincolnville Center, selling pews to help fund its construction. Now known as the Center Church, the Lincolnville United Church of Christ, it continues to have an active congregation in the 21st Century, led by part-time pastor Elizabeth Barnum…

ROCKLAND - The following deed transfers were recorded in the Knox County Registry of Deeds May 5-9.   

Camden

Barbara M. Nichols and Robert H. Nichols to Michelle G. Ricca and James Ricca.

Cushing

Amber Leigh Dewey to Northgate Land Capital LLC.…

A life celebration for Wayne 'Butch' Farley will be held May 18, 2025, from 1 - 3 p.m., at Rockland Golf Club.

ROCKLAND — Rockland Police were called to 17 James Street, in Rockland, just prior to 9:45 a.m., Sunday, May 11, for a report of domestic violence among three adults. While still en route, PD was informed of the possibility that knives were involved.