BELFAST - Privateer Lynx, a replica of an 1812 Baltimore Clipper ship, will be spending most of the month of July in Belfast. The City Council rolled out the welcome mat on Tuesday…
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BELFAST - Much has been said about the capacity of the two travel lifts at Front Street Shipyard. The smaller, 160-ton hoist was heralded as the largest of its kind north of Newport, Rhode Island…

Sergeant Travis Ford works for the Rockport Police Department. He has been a sergeant for six years and a patrol officer for the Rockport PD for 15 years. Penbaypilot.com rode with him on a rainy…

BELFAST - “A clean budget.”
That was how Regional School Unit 20 Superintendent Brian Carpenter described draft…

BELFAST - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that Maine will receive $3.8 million in grant funding for environmental assessment and…

CAMDEN — At 8:34 p.m., May 27, Maine warden divers recovered the body of James B. Wescott, 71, of Belfast, from Megunticook Lake in Camden.
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BELFAST - Whether you’re stretching your legs after a long winter’s hibernation or riding in from somewhere warmer, you’ve likely noticed some new businesses around the city. We visited a few of…

It began with a series of challenges amongst firefighters in Hancock County, which eventually spread south to the Midcoast. Take a polar plunge within 24 hours of being “called out” by the person…

BELFAST - In the future, smaller lot sizes and backlot flexibility could allow more houses to spring up in the dense residential areas of the city located within the bypass. Setback rules could…

BELFAST - After sending the advisory Harbor Committee back to the drawing board earlier this month, the City Council on Tuesday approved a new fee schedule for slips at Thompson’s Wharf pier. The…
STOCKTON SPRINGS - A 79-year old man died in a crash Monday afternoon on Route 1 that involved three vehicles.
Lt. Aaron Hayden of Maine State Police said Tuesday that the collision that…

MONROE - When he was in college, Josh Moody went with a friend to a skateboard shop in southern Maine. In the back of the store, there were a handful of surfboards. Moody thought it was joke.
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LINCOLNVILLE — In addition to listening to a budget overview and summary for the Five Town CSD, the Lincolnville Board of Selectmen Monday night learned about upcoming Recreation Commission…
SEARSPORT - An driver was allegedly distracted when she drove into a utility pole in downtown Searsport, Monday. In addition to damage at the scene, the accident set off a cascade of disruptions…

BELFAST – For years the city has charged a nominal rate for slips at Thompson’s Wharf pier with priority given to renters from previous years. Last week both of those practices came under scrutiny…

CAMDEN– Members of the Thomaston, Hope, Waldoboro, St. George and Camden fire departments assembled at Camden Exxon, 1 Union Street, Saturday, May 10, for training in extrication. The Camden Fire…

ROCKPORT — Mother’s Day is the single busiest day for Hoboken Gardens, busier even than Valentine’s Day.
“Everybody has a mother,” said …
STOCKTON SPRINGS – Town firefighters put out a fire that consumed a shed Wednesday night. A hour-and-a-half later, they were called back to the same Route 1 property for a fire on the porch of an…

BELFAST – Last month Coastal Farms and Foods representatives announced …

NORTHPORT- Recently Belfast Community TV Station Manager Ned Lightner and Mark Kuzio, a regular contributor, were brainstorming about what to do with their new…

BELFAST - Even before Regional School Unit 20 hit major budget troubles, City Manager Joe Slocum regularly took pains to remind Belfast residents that only a fraction of their property tax bills…

ROCKLAND — At an RSU 13 budget meeting Monday, April 28, at the McClain School in Rockland, the school board struggled to fund budget cuts to try and make the finances work. The board debated…

BELFAST - In a time when high school students are encouraged to pad their college applications with eye-catching acts of community service, Tyler Cross, the…

ROCKLAND — Every Thursday, come rain, snow or sunshine, the Rockland Fire Department pulls Tower Truck 3 out and Patrick Lowe takes the ladder up 97 feet to make sure it’s in proper working order…

BELFAST - Organizers of the Free Range Music Festival scaled back the successful citywide event this year, opting instead for a concert and party to raise money for next year’s festival and tide…

BELFAST - They came bearing branches adorned with paper flowers, dressed as puffins, polar bears, bees and humans of all stripes. Residents and visiting activists on Tuesday staged a festive…

CAMDEN — Peter Ott’s Restaurant reopened April 18 amid great fanfare and patrons turning out to see its new location on Bay View Landing, complete with water views, a rich, warm, new interior and…

BELFAST - The funky risers and bean bags are gone from the second-floor room in the Belfast Free Library once reserved for small children. Also gone are the model trains and miniature puppet…

I enjoy traveling to Montana, Alaska, British Columbia and other destinations. At the conclusion of each trip though, I'm eager to return home to Maine. Following is a short list of reasons why I…

For a small school with no track, Boothbay Region High School fields an impressive outdoor track and field team. This year’s roster boasts 49 athletes, 33 of them male.
Last year, the…

BELFAST - Members of the City Council on Tuesday sparred over whether to waive the rental fee for two groups hoping to use of the Belfast Boathouse for educational events. The requests…

BELFAST - After a week of warm weather, brush and organic debris from winter has been piling up curbside, here.
Thanks to the ice storm, those piles are significantly bigger than usual…

ROCKPORT — The little house on West Street (Route 90) in Rockport that was donated to the fire department survived seven live fire training rotations Sunday morning before the structure became too…

BELFAST - After two years in business, Coastal Farms and Food Processing will be closing its doors at the end of the month.
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BELFAST - The U.S. Economic Development Administration on Tuesday awarded Belfast $1.9 million for a major overhaul of Front Street.
The grant would cover half the cost of the estimated $3.8…

BELFAST - A proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maine Department of Transportation to deepen and extend the shipping channel at Mack Point cargo terminal in Searsport will be subject…

BELFAST - With all eight municipalities of Regional School Unit 20 considering plans to withdraw, simply dissolving the district might be a better idea. That’s…

BELFAST - When you buy a gallon of gas, how do you know it’s really a gallon? And what about a pound of apples?
There’s no guarantee you’ll get what you pay for. But if…

ROCKLAND — We all have a past. Rockland City Councilor Louise MacLellan-Ruf shared hers on Saturday at the Penobscot School at 28 Gay Street in Rockland. In 2013, she won first place in the…

CAMDEN — Anyone serving, or who has served in the U.S. military, is now approved to receive training and certification under the G.I. Bill to become Montessori instructors, according to Martha…
SWANVILLE - Several residents on the northwest side of Swan Lake caught wind of a gas smell Wednesday morning. After a visit from the Belfast Fire Department, the source remained a mystery.
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BELFAST - In a presentation to the The Propeller Club of Searsport and Bucksport last week, Captain David Gelinas made a lengthy case for the importance of…

ROCKLAND — Rockland’s Mayor Larry Pritchett did an excellent job moderating a special Rockland Council meeting Wednesday evening, March 19, as the community talked about how to accept and display…

BELFAST - Residents seeking the city’s support in a campaign to remove fossil fuel companies from the Maine Public Employees Retirement System’s investment portfolio got an endorsement of sorts,…

BELFAST - For each of the last seven years, volunteers from Friends of Belfast Parks have donned rubber gloves and a sense of humor and picked up a winter’s worth of dog feces at the city’s…

Curtis Warren, a Senior at Belfast Area High School, was awarded the DAR Good Citizens Award, March 11.
The …

MONROE — The building at the center of town is immediately recognizable in the architectural lexicon of little towns. That residents considered using for something other than a general store…

ROCKLAND — Paul Benjamin, president of Rockland Main Street, introduced incoming executive director Gordon Page, Sr., to a small crowd during an informal reception hosted by the RMS board to…

BELFAST - U.S. Senate candidate Shenna Bellows started making national headlines recently when her fundraising in the last quarter of 2013 surpassed that of three-term Senator Susan Collins.
…SEARSPORT - Voters on Tuesday re-elected one selectmen, replaced another, and approved a measure to seek withdrawal from Regional School Unit 20.
In a four-way race for two seats on the…