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May 16
Penobscot Bay YMCA invites older adults at all levels of physical fitness to participate in National Senior Health and Fitness Day, which will be ...
May 16
Medomak Middle School's April students of the month are Ryan Andrick, Justin Bowman, Juno Buendia, Caroline Dustin, Bridgette Gross, Kianna Pike, ...
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May 16
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Waldoboro EMS
WALDOBORO — National Emergency Medical Service week is being held from May 20 through May 26. ...
May 16
Students in the Culinary Arts Program at Mid-Coast School of Technology under the direction of Josh Gamage prepared “Food for Finals” for students ...
May 16
The Medomak Middle School-American Legion Public Speaking Contest was held May 9.
Participating in the contest were Gabrielle Ruano, Kianna Pike, ...
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May 16
Mid-Coast Mental Health Center was recently awarded $20,000 from The Davis Family Foundation to support the agency’s Knox County Mental Health ...
May 16
KeyBank announces Samantha A. Hill has been named assistant vice president and branch manager for the Camden Market Square branch located at 141 ...
May 16
Led by a procession of University of Maine at Farmington faculty, administrators and dignitaries to the moving music of a local bagpipe group, 387 ...
May 16
Tammy Davis shared these spring snapshots: a chipmunk filling up on birdseed; Solomon's Seal; lilacs starting to open up; lady’s mantle; and ...
May 16
At the conclusion of 2012 Elks National Youth Week activities for the Rockland Lodge 1008 last weekend, Boy Scout Troop 206 assisted the Lodge in ...
May 15
Maine’s ferry passengers as they travel between the mainland and the islands frequently observe seabirds. Many passengers can’t identify these ...
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May 15
Vose Library, 392 Common Road, will host the second presentation in a series regarding retirement concerns on Tuesday, May 22 at 7 p.m.
Dr. Phil ...
May 15
George A. Smith, former executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine and an accomplished writer, addressed the Rockland Kiwanis Club at ...
May 15
Thank you to Lincoln (pictured), Ella and Mac for bringing the cats lots of toys and treats. The little kittens enjoy running around the kitten ...
May 15
More than two dozen women from around Maine, including participants from Knox and Hancock counties, will travel to Washington, D.C., to tell ...
May 15
There will be a Haddock Chowder Dinner on Saturday, May 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the St. George Town Office to benefit Saint George Days. Donations ...
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By George Chappell - May 15
Rob and Sherree Craig will have an open house Saturday, May 19 for their new restaurant, Aviary Cafe, at the Knox County Regional Airport.
"We'll ...
May 15
A special joint school board meeting of RSU 13, SAD 40, Five Town CSD, SAD 7, SAD 8, Islesboro School Committee, and Region 8 Mid-Coast School of ...
May 15
The Rockland Police Department and Rockland District Nursing Association on April 28 collected 137.6 pounds of unwanted medications during the ...
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May 15
In accordance with the presidential proclamation, Gov. Paul LePage has directed that the United States flag and the state of Maine flag be flown ...
May 14
Learn to sail while exploring Maine’s rich maritime heritage with Rockland Community Sailing at the Apprenticeshop in partnership with RSU 13 ...
May 14
Gov. Paul LePage recently presented Allen Insurance and Financial with a 2012 Governor’s Award for Business Excellence during a reception at the ...
May 14
The Friends of the Waldoboro Public Library will open up the Book Barn on Saturday, May 19.
The Book Barn, located at 995 Main St., will be open ...
May 14
Union Historical Society will meet Wednesday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Town House on Town House Road, off Union Common. Members will hear a ...
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May 14
Camden's annual Arbor Day program will take place at the Bok Amphitheater, on Atlantic Avenue adjacent to the Camden library and opposite the ...
May 14
Rockland Rotary President Doug Curtis Jr. presented a check for $100 to Destination ImagiNation Team Bugaboo from Rockland District Middle School ...
May 14
Tammy Davis spotted two loons on Chickawaukie Pond on May 11. She said the loons didn't stay afloat for very long, and they are smooth divers.
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May 14
Employees of The First recently raised $653.55 for the new Zing! Program at Pen Bay Healthcare as part of the bank’s Casual for a Cause program. ...
May 14
Medomak Valley High School announced its magna cum laude and cum laude graduates for the class of 2012.
Courier Publications news staff can be ...
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May 13
The Camden Rotary Club will hold its third annual Giant Yard Sale on May 26 and May 27 at the former Rockport Elementary School East on West ...
May 13
A chair yoga class, led by massage therapist and yoga instructor Brita Light, RN, can help those that suffer from chronic pain.
This introductory ...
May 12
David Hall taught Cub Scouts from Pack 142's Bear Den to use tools and build wooden tool boxes. Participating Scouts include Noah Hall, Sam ...
May 12
The Owls Head Transportation Museum is home to one of the finest collections of pioneer aircraft and ground vehicles in the country. Open year ...
May 12
Are you looking for a sweet, laid-back dog who is ready to give as much affection as she gets? Sandybelle could be just right for you. This gentle ...
May 12
The American Cancer Society has selected Allen Insurance and Financial to serve as honorary team for the 10th annual Relay for Life of MidCoast ...
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May 12
Come wish Barbara Dyer a happy birthday on Saturday, May 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Camden/Rockport Historical Society at the Conway Homestead ...
May 12
The Rockport Garden Club's annual plant sale will take place Saturday, June 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Aldermere Farm on Russell Avenue.
The sale ...
May 12
Rockland Elks Lodge 1008 Exalted Ruler Tom Wenckus and Elks National Foundation Chairman John Young visited Medomak Middle School on May 10 to ...
May 12
Volunteers gathered recently at the Teen Center to help United Mid-Coast Charities assemble 7,000 annual spring mailings. The group, comprising ...
May 11
The Lincoln County Fish & Game Association and Medomak Valley Land Trust are partnering again to host the fifth annual Hooked on Fishing Day at ...
May 11
Eighth-grade Spanish I and Spanish II students at Camden-Rockport Middle School recently performed well on the 2012 National Spanish Examination.
T...
May 11
Alewife migration season has arrived once again in the coastal rivers of Maine. This annual natural wonder starts first in South Carolina and ...
May 11
The Rockland Women’s Golf Association seeks sponsors for the second annual Midcoast Breast Cancer Classic Golf Tournament. The co-ed, shotgun-start...
May 11
Quarry Hill honored more than 100 area citizens, including dozens of its own residents, at volunteer-recognition events held April 21 and April 25 ...
May 11
Classic cars and antique airplanes highlight the action at the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s Spring Auto & Antique Aeroplane Show on May 26 ...
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May 11
Lisa Pohlmann, the executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, will lead an informative talk about everyday toxins and their ...
May 11
Kim Lincoln serves as a general assignment reporter, covering the towns of Rockport, Hope and Appleton.
Lincoln, a media studies graduate from the ...
May 11
Representatives from local food pantries were on hand to accept $200 each from the Empty Bowl Supper Benefit that took place in April at Medomak ...
May 11
Priscilla Pattison, a pillar of the Midcoast art community and a resident of Quarry Hill, is one of 36 Maine seniors being honored by the Maine ...
May 11
The Thomaston Children’s Festival will be held Saturday, May 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Thomaston Academy lawn.
The event sponsored by ...
May 11
On May 4, Jeffrey Evangelos of Friendship was certified by the Maine Secretary of State's Office as an independent candidate for House District ...
May 11
This Thomaston turkey approached Hope Creighton's house, and she captured these images through her kitchen window.
Courier Publications news ...
May 10
Some of the best gardeners in the Midcoast have been digging, dividing and potting perennials from their own gardens in preparation for the Camden ...
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May 10
A collaborative effort involving Quarry Hill and other members of the MaineHealth network of health care providers is proving effective in ...
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By Charlotte Henderson - May 10
Guild tea party new dateDue to illness, the annual tea party of the Washington Ladies’ Guild is postponed to Wednesday, May 16 at 1 p.m. at the ...
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By Jessica Davis - May 10
Library News
Stop by the library to check out the beautiful art work by AVS art teacher Anthony Lufkin, currently on display in the foyer and in ...
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May 10
Camden National Bank announced a lucky winner in its annual Debit Card Sweepstakes. Patricia Hubbard of Thomaston won $1,000, simply for using her ...
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May 10
U.S. Cellular announced that its Calling All Communities campaign will return for the fourth year this September. It challenges schools to rally ...
By Staff - May 10
Juliette Laaka is a general assignment reporter for The Courier-Gazette. She was hired as the company was being relaunched and has been assigned ...
By Diane O'Brien - May 10
Municipal Meetings
All meetings are at Lincolnville Central School unless otherwise noted.
The Cemetery Trustees meet Thursday, May 10, at 6:30 ...
By Humane Society of ... - May 10
Our pet picks of the week are Chester and Big Bang. It's Chester's birthday this week and he has only one wish, a loving home of his own.
He's a ...
May 10
Whether it's a bargain or a collectible, there's something for everyone at the annual Gibbs Library garage, plant and book sale.
This year the ...
May 10
During the 2012 (second annual) Eliza Steele Mercy March/Youth Fast this spring, Thomaston Baptist Church hosted area high school youth fasters ...
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By Stephanie Kumble - May 10
Town
The Conservation Commission will meet Friday, May 11, at 8 a.m. at the town office. The select board will meet Monday, May 14, at 7 p.m. at ...
May 09
Mid-Coast School of Technology Machine Tool Program student Owen Thompson is the MCST Maine Administrators of Career and Technical Education ...
May 09
The Maine Elks Association held its annual convention May 4-6 at Sugarloaf Resort. Rockland Lodge 1008 was honored when Emma Mason of Oceanside ...
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May 09
Cars are fun to drive, but they need proper care and maintenance. Girl Scouts will offer an educational series to provide high school girls with ...
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May 09
Clean Bee Laundry and the Temple family will host the third annual bake sale to benefit Safe Passage on Saturday, May 19 from 9 to 11 a.m. The ...
May 09
The Medomak River Community Market on Friendship Street in the village is gearing up for gardening time.
The market will be stocking gardening ...
May 09
Maine waters are being invaded. As with a serious illness, early detection is key; the earlier the introduced invader — such as Eurasian water-milf...
May 09
Think manufacturing in Maine and think high school students operating self-designed robots tossing ping-pong balls expertly into bins. Wind blades ...
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May 09
Calf Unveiling DayROCKPORT — An open house event for the community to visit Aldermere Farm and the newly born Belted Galloway calves (12 so far ...
May 09
Children will draw marsh and wetlands life (May 15), scenes from Memorial Day (May 22) and migratory birds (May 29) at this month's children's ...
May 09
Trekkers, a youth mentoring nonprofit organization, will hold its fourth annual Pedal to the Port bicycle ride Saturday, June 9. Drawing more than ...
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May 09
Tuesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. Hope Historical Society’s monthly meeting will feature Camden’s Nancy Graham, a descendant of Hope’s most famous ...
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By Francina Pearse - May 09
Town Office
The newly remodeled town office is open for business. There may be a bit of confusion at some construction is still going on. Also the ...
May 09
The recent Union Area Chamber of Commerce dinner and awards ceremony recognized the contributions of volunteers, businesses and nonprofit organizat...
May 08
Commodore Homes of Pennsylvania announced that Boggs Homes is the winner of the 2011 Single Lot Sales Center Volume Award.
The award is presented ...
May 08
The Union Area Chamber of Commerce held a roadside clean-up day on May 5. Chamber members and volunteers picked up from roadsides and delivered to ...
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May 08
The new Wednesday Walkers, a walking/hiking group in the Midcoast, announced that hikes are now being led by a sponsoring group of land trusts.
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By Juliette Laaka - May 08
The Rockland School of Ballet presented "The Daring Flight of the Ambitious Little Goldfinch" on Saturday, May 5 at the Lincoln Street Center.
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May 08
Are you graduating from high school for the 2012 school year? We would like to publish your photo in our graduation supplement. Please email your ...
May 08
The Visual & Performing Arts Student of the Month for May is senior Andrew Kyle. Kyle has been very active in the Camden Hills Regional High ...
May 08
University College at Rockland celebrated the graduation of 65 local university students on May 5. About 130 guests, including parents, spouses ...
May 08
May is Lyme Disease Awareness month, and the Camden Public Library will host Lyme disease specialist Dr. Bea Szantyr on Tuesday, May 22 at 6:30 ...
May 08
The South Thomaston/Rockland Lions Club is having its spring fundraising raffle, with a drawing for a new 14-foot Carolina Skiff with 9.9-horsepowe...
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May 08
The Five Towns Adult/Community Education Office is offering a trip to Boston on Saturday, May 19.
This is a day to explore, shop and dine in the ...
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May 08
Watch the laser racers as they compete Sunday, May 20 in Thomaston Harbor in support of the Coastal Family Hospice Volunteers Program. The event ...
May 07
Journey’s End Marina is in the process of reconstructing what was once an old fish pier into a new indoor boat storage facility located on Tillson ...
May 07
David Lyman took this photo of the full moon over Penobscot Bay on May 5, when the moon was closest to Earth. The photo was taken from the golf ...
May 07
On the Water in Maine Inc. announced its purchase of the former All-State Insurance property located at 195 Commercial St. (Route 1). On the Water ...
May 07
Gardens are full of countless miracles and are wonderful opportunities for children to make engaging connections to learning and lifelong skills ...
May 07
At the 2012 Energy Fair held at the University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center on May 4, dozens of students from island and coastal communities along ...
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May 07
Business is Blooming in Camden events are set for May 17 to 20 in downtown Camden. This first annual event is a collaboration between the Camden ...
May 07
"Sandy is loved by all her patients. She treats everyone well and makes them feel listened to. Sandy has been a faithful employee for many years ...
May 07
La Libertad is a small indigenous village in the Colombian Amazon, near the borders of Peru and Brazil. The village is only 14 years old, but ...
May 07
Jeri Brooks Greenwell of Bethel, chairman of the American Legion Auxiliary’s Department of Children and Youth, recognized Kasey S. Emery of Camden ...
May 07
Dr. Alexandra Degenhardt will present the latest news in multiple sclerosis treatment and research on Saturday, May 19 from 10 a.m. to noon at the ...
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May 07
An open house for the new headquarters for Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge and the Friends of Maine’s Seabird Islands is scheduled ...
May 07
The Medomak Valley High School Destination ImagiNation team will host a Mother’s Day mini golf event at Golfer's Crossing on Route 1 at the ...
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May 07
The Rockland Public Library invites the community to chime in on possible changes in library hours through a one-question survey.
The proposed ...
May 07
For more than 30 years, Midcoast gardeners have flocked to Merryspring’s annual plant sale in search of the new as well as the tried and true. ...
May 06
Camden Herald reporters asked people on the streets: Do you think employers should monitor their employees on social network sites?
May 06
Jamie Nabozny brought his message of tolerance and having safe schools to Oceanside High School in Rockland on May 2.
Nabozny's experiences with ...
May 05
Coastal Mountains Land Trust and Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition will co-host a spring bird walk in Ducktrap River Preserve in Lincolnville on May ...
May 05
Students of the month at Oceanside High School East for March are sophomore Alexandria Moreash-Kennedy, junior Natalie Atwood and senior Michael ...
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May 05
Applications for young sailors interested in learning to sail are being accepted at the Rockport Boat Club.
New additions for the 2012 summer ...
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May 04
Join Cheryl Parker as she takes the fear out of using a pressure cooker. Learn all about the new generation of pressure cookers, their safety, and ...
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May 04
Launched on Earth Day in 2007, Pen Bay Healthcare recently celebrated several years of environmentally friendly milestones with the Shades of ...
May 04
In honor of its 25th anniversary, Georges River Land Trust has organized Revelry for the River, a yearlong celebration including 18 special ...
May 04
The spring botany class at CHRHS has been busy filling the greenhouse with a wide variety of plants. More than 90 varieties of annuals, perennials,...
May 04
The Girl Scouts Knox County Service Unit and local leaders held their annual meeting May 1 at the Landings Restaurant. This year marks the 100th ...
May 04
Wells Fargo Advisors has designated Ron Hall, senior vice president, investment officer, as a member of the firm’s Premier Advisors Program, a ...
May 04
Trekkers Program Coordinator Elisabeth “Lis” Lohmueller is the recipient of the 2012 Governor’s National Service Volunteer award. This honor ...
May 04
Invasive plants of Midcoast Maine
ROCKPORT — Hildy Ellis, Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District coordinator, will discuss invasive ...
May 04
Jenna Lookner serves as a news reporter covering the towns of Camden and Lincolnville for The Camden Herald. She covers municipal and police news, ...
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May 03
Vermont Technical College’s commencement will take place Saturday, May 5, at 2 p.m. at the Shapiro Field House on the Norwich University campus in ...
May 03
Gov. Paul LePage announced the nomination of Mark Vannoy of Waldoboro as commissioner of the Maine Public Utilities Commission. If confirmed by ...
May 03
The Waldoboro Fire Department’s Pink Flamingos fundraiser recently made their 50th landing. The fundraising idea was something Chief Paul Smeltzer ...
