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Kidder to keynote Association for the ...
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Applications open for 2012 Maine Lobster Sea ...
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Warren Community School gears up for eARTh ...
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Jack Robert Page
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School Garden 101 program begins Feb. 28 in ...
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Extension offers online blueberry bush sale
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C. Elizabeth 'Lib' Thurston Keniston
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Camden Garden Club continues winter ...
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Lucy E. Mixer
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'Queen' bee film, honey tasting
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Cops & Courts
Sheriff warns of metal thefts
Feb 07The Knox County Sheriff's Office is warning citizens that metal thefts are continuing. Deputies have had contact with several vehicles containing ...
Rockland police blotter
By Staff - Feb 06An arrest or summons does not constitute a finding of guilt. An individual charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven ...
Maine Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force established
Feb 06Attorney General William J. Schneider and Gov. Paul R. LePage have announced that a task force has been formed to combat the prescription drug ...
Rockland man injured after crashing into home
By Daniel Dunkle - Feb 06A Rockland man was taken to Pen Bay Medical Center with minor injuries after crashing his truck into a tree and a house Feb. 5 on West Meadow ...
Knox County Sheriff's Office log
Feb 06The Knox County Sheriff's Office responded to and reported the following calls from Jan. 8 through Jan. 14.An arrest or summons does not constitute...
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Religion
Adult Forum continues discussion on Israel and Palestine at St. Peter’s
By St. Peter's Episcopal ... - Feb 07The Adult Forum education and discussion program at St. Peter’s will continue its study of issues effecting lives of people in Israel and Palestine...
Wednesday AM Interfaith Meditation
By St. Margaret's ... - Feb 07The Rev. Bonnie Versboncoeur, Zen Buddhist Priest, and The Rev. Martha Kirkpatrick, St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, Belfast, have started a ...
Transformation Is Possible!
By First Church of ... - Feb 06One Central Street, Camden, Maine www.cscamden.org Spend an hour with us Sunday morning and see yourself in a new light. Let Truth guide you away ...
The Christian Science Monitor February 6, 2012: SECOND ACTS
By First Church of ... - Feb 03SECOND ACTS “How many professionals are staging mid-career reinventions to ride out an unforgiving economy,” by Laurent Belsie Job Shifters: “It ...
Politics
WAKE UP, PENOBSCOT BAY! YOUR WAY OF LIFE IS IN JEOPARDY!
By TBNT - Thanks But No Tank - Jan 30DCP Midstream, the limited liability corporation of ConocoPhillips and Spectra Energy is poised to install their 22.7 million gallon tank of ...
Member Stories
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Trying to Legislate for Change at a Grassroots Level. One Person's Story:
By Catherine Cooper - Feb 07If you had asked me just over a year ago, if I would be this upset over the subject of GAL reform, I would not have known enough about what a GAL ...
Trackside's February Lunch Special & Entertainment Calendar!
By Kelly Woods - Feb 06Want to be a part of Trackside Station Nation? Like us on facebook! Just click the link below the picture. ~ Click on the calendar picture on ...
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Nickerson & AyersTop 2/06 Bridge
By Tom Tarbox - Feb 06The results of today(6 Feb 12)'s duplicate bridge game of The Idle Rich DBC are as follows: First, Sheila Nickerson of Belfast and Anne Ayers of ...
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WHAT'S "LOVE" GOT TO DO WITH IT?
By Lisa Dresser - Feb 06"LOVE" has everything to do with it this month at the Camden-Rockport Animal Rescue League. For the entire month of February all of our adult cats ...
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'ZUMBA WITH KORINN' TO HOST SPECIAL FUNDRAISER FOR UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
By Korinn Yvonne Scattoloni - Feb 05Korinn Scattoloni is hosting a special fundraiser at the Union Elementary School on Saturday February 18th. All proceeds will benefit Children’s ...
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Down the Road a Piece
By Milt Gross - Feb 05Snow hiking and cross-country skiing and icy driveways A great opportunity to get out into the snow and cold to enjoy the great outdoors, for ...
Opinion
Blizzard of 1952: No school!
By Terry Economy - Feb 06On Feb. 6, 1952, the National Weather Bureau issued the following weather statement: 'A huge snow storm is heading up the coast of New England ...
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Remembering an old growth cedar stand
By Ron Joseph - Feb 05“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, ...
Vermicomposting: Winter project prepares for spring planting
By Jean English - Feb 04Tired of trekking out to the compost bin in winter? Consider vermicomposting. Vermicomposts, according to the Soil Ecology Laboratory at the Ohio ...
No bodies, just background
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 04People are saying that all things today are much worse than ever before, but good things have happened. You just have to look a little harder to ...
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Letters to the editor, Feb. 2
Feb 04Bridge to differ You recently featured an article about Matinicus by Eva Murray in which your headline stated that there are no bridges here. There...
Coach Maz, a Giant defense
By Chris Wolf - Feb 04Ed Mazurek, of Rockland, taught social studies and coached football at Rockland District High School before retiring and entering into politics. ...
Blogs
Thorfinn Expeditions Interviews Quickblade Paddles Founder Jim Terrell
By Thor Emory - Feb 08Method Behind the Madness: An Interview with Quickblade's Jim Terrell A life-long passion for paddling, top level experience in international ...
Astrologically speaking February 1-19 Mercury is NOT retrograde. althought today and yesterday has been filled with disappointments. (written 2/7)
By ananur forma - Feb 07February 2012 Mercury is not retrograde this month. Mars and Saturn are retrograde making it a poor time to start a new business. If you are doing ...
Tilting at Windmills
By Kit Hayden - Feb 06With the 1099’s rolling in it’s time to face reluctantly the annual battle with the IRS. I reminisce, with a sort of wry amusement, on how our ...
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Durango is dead. Long Live Durango!
By Silvio Calabi - Feb 05YOU MAY REMEMBER the old Dodge Durango the way I do: As a clumsy, truck-based ute, just one more member of that herd of motorized dinosaurs that ...
Something New in the World of Kayaking
By Ray Wirth - Feb 05One of the best things about owning a small kayak shop (besides scouting out new sections of the Maine coast as potential tour destinations) is ...
Maine Winter Paddling
By Thor Emory - Feb 03My Dad is fond of saying, “That is no joke!” He uses this line to refer to anything that is in fact- no joke. Such topics as global warming, my ...
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Obituaries
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C. Elizabeth 'Lib' Thurston Keniston
Feb 08“Lib” passed quietly on Jan. 25, 2012, while in the wonderful care of the Hospice Society at Gosnell House in Scarborough. Born in Boothbay Harbor ...
Benjamin Snow
Feb 07It is with great sorrow that the children of Benjamin Snow announce his death on Feb. 3, 2012.Born in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 18, 1955, to June and ...
Patricia A. Duplissa
Feb 07Patricia A. Duplissa, 90, passed away Jan. 31, 2012, at Waldo County General Hospital in Belfast. Born in Madawaska on June 8, 1921, she was the ...
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Sheila K. Billings
Feb 06Sheila King Billings, 73, died Feb. 3, 2012, at her home in Camden after a long illness. She was born Feb. 17, 1938, in Camden and was the ...
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Lucy E. Mixer
Feb 08January 30, 1914 - January 31, 2012 Lucy E. Mixer, 98, of Rockland passed away Jan. 31, 2012. During the 1940s she married Carl Kitching from ...
June Buerge Scigliano
Feb 07(Genevieve) June Buerge Scigliano, 87, a resident of Tenants Harbor, formerly of Needham, passed away peacefully, with her family by her side, in ...
Robert Richardson
Feb 07Robert W. Richardson, 64, died at his home Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, following an extended illness. Born in Rockland on Feb. 17, 1947, he was the son ...
Robert C. Souers
Feb 03Robert Charles Souers, 85, a resident of Fishkill, N.Y., for 60 years and a summer resident of Friendship for more than 40 years, died on Monday, ...
Announcements
Jack Robert Page
Feb 08Charlie and Susan Ware Page are pleased to announce the birth of their son Jack Robert Page born on Dec. 29, 2011, at 2:48 a.m. at Pen Bay Medical ...
Olsen — Roman engagement
Feb 06Brenda and Linwood Olsen Sr. of Friendship are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter Ginger Mae Olsen to Michael Allen Roman Jr. of ...
Blood's 60th anniversary
Jan 27Clayton and Barbara Blood celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Jan. 30. High school sweethearts, Barbara Myrick married Clayton at a small ...
Dell Richard Hyssong IV
Feb 07Dell Richard Hyssong IV was born at 9:32 a.m. on Jan. 23, 2012, at Pen Bay Medical Center to D. Richard and Kelly Hyssong. He weighed 8 pounds, 8 ...
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Tayler William Benner
Jan 30Tayler William Benner was born Jan. 29, 2012, to Ryan Benner and Ashley Ranco of Friendship at Miles Memorial Hospital at 1:18 p.m. Tayler weighed ...
Hoffses-Cormier engagement
Jan 26Melissa and John Olson of Cushing and Michael Hoffses of Friendship are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Victoria to Michael ...
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News from 
- Romney to Campaign in Maine Friday
2/8/2012 12:30:00 PMThe GOP presidential candidate plans to make his first campaign stop in Maine at a rally Friday in Portland.
- Northern Maine Community College Gets $5M Gift
2/8/2012 12:00:00 PMThe gift from Presque Isle native Mary Barton Akeley Smith will enable the college to renovate two existing facilities at the campus.
- LePage Communications Chief Stepping Down
2/8/2012 11:30:00 AMPeter Rogers, who has been in the post since July, says he's ready to move on to something new.
- Proposed Turnpike Budget Cut by 10 Percent
2/8/2012 11:00:00 AMThe budget plan submitted by Executive Director Peter Mills cuts the agency's spending, in part by reducing employee salaries and ...
- Fishing Regulators Double Catch Limits on Gulf of Maine Winter Flounder
2/8/2012 11:00:00 AMFederal regulators say a new stock assessment indicates that winter flounder stocks are no longer overfished.
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