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  • Former RSU 71 teacher pleads guilty to possessing child ...

    By Carolyn Zachary - Mar 01
    A Bucksport man who is a former elementary school teacher in Belfast pleaded guilty March 1 in federal court to possessing child pornography, ...
  • Frankfort news

    By Tom Seymour - Mar 01
    338-9746 Last Friday, a loud noise, sounding something like a small-gauge shotgun being fired, caught my attention. This was a little after 9 p.m. ...
  • Clark named acting U.S. attorney for District of Maine

    Mar 01
    Donald E. Clark became acting U.S. attorney for the District of Maine on March 1, by virtue of the resignation of U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank ...
  • Maine youths bring passion to climate change action

    By Kendra Caruso - Mar 01
    Two high school students and a collegiate member of Gov. Mills' Climate Council talked about their experiences advocating for solutions to climate ...
  • Belfast Ice Festival a hit despite rain, sleet

    By Kendra Caruso - Mar 01
    Dozens of people from the city and away could be seen from the Harbor Walk to Post Office Square in downtown Belfast Feb. 27 during the Ice ...
  • Searsport news

    By Lin Calista - Mar 01
    441-7810 searsportnews@gmail.com Vito, the Beach Cat If you'd like to remember summer in Searsport, Carver Library has a children's book called ...
  • Montville news

    By Fran Gonzalez - Mar 01
    380-9020 Congratulations to Hannah Hatfield, who has taken over the role of administrative assistant to the selectmen from departing interim ...
  • Freedom news

    By Nathan McCann - Feb 28
    freedomtownnews@columnist.com 993-2031 Freedom Solid Waste Representative Phil Bloomstein and alternate Meredith Coffin presented some great news ...
  • Stockton Springs news

    By Ellen Holland - Feb 27
    Ezachary18@gmail.com 567-8067 Town Office Nomination papers will be available beginning Feb. 25 for the following upcoming vacancies: Select board ...
  • Brooks news

    By Melissa McDonald - Feb 27
    207-323-9347 stellapearl320@gmail.com Greetings. By the time you read this, it will be March. As I write it, there are only 22 days until spring! T...
  • Searsmont news

    By Joyce and Mickey Sirota - Feb 27
    joycesirota@gmail.com; mickeysirota@gmail.com 322-7572; 322-5671 Searsmont Makes The Times We've hit big time, folks. On Feb. 19, an article in ...
  • Pedestrian LifeFlighted after hit-and-run

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 26
    A pedestrian was taken to an area hospital by LifeFlight after a hit-and-run collision in Swanville Thursday. Maine State Police are seeking the ...
  • Former reporter remembered as fighter, passionate ...

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 26
    A former journalist and longtime environmental activist died Feb. 8 after living with lung cancer for nine years. Peter Taber, 74, was a reporter ...
  • Curry to host virtual office hours

    Feb 26
    Sen. Chip Curry, D-Belfast, will hold virtual office hours on Zoom, to be broadcast on Facebook Live, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 3. Office hours ...
  • Belfast Garden Club supports education program

    Feb 26
    Belfast Community Outreach Program in Education has received a scholarship from Belfast Garden Club in support of our BCOPE summer garden internshi...
  • Knox news

    By Rita Doughty - Feb 26
    382-6783 knoxtownnews@yahoo.com Hello all, I am back again. Waiting patiently for surgery. Not much excitement here. Watching the days come and go ...
  • Unity news

    By Penny Sampson - Feb 26
    I saw a cute meme on Facebook the other day; people were in the produce section of a grocery store and everyone was wearing masks and they ...
  • Morrill news

    By Brenda Harford - Feb 26
    wisdomlady44@yahoo.com 322-4534 Happy birthday to Hunter Howes on March 7. Happy birthday to Ashley Knight on March 8. Happy birthday to Sharon ...
  • Monroe news

    By Ashlie Stubbs - Feb 26
    ashliestubbs13@gmail.com 592-0336 Hello Monroe! What a wonderful few days of welcomed early spring-like warmth and sunshine. A short respite from ...
  • Thorndike news

    By Linda Dixon - Feb 26
    568-3411 We had some great weather this past week, and it got up to 66 degrees in the gazebo. We are just loving it. I have been enjoying the ...
  • Jackson news

    By Meredith Toumayan - Feb 26
    JacksonTownNews@gmail.com 722-3087 March is upon us — in like a lion, out like a lamb — let the winds roar! My chickens have been enjoying the ...
  • CDC announces 217 new COVID-19 cases

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 25
    The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported an additional 41 COVID-19-related deaths in the state Thursday, Feb. 25. Dr. Nirav ...
  • Jackson news

    By Meredith Toumayan - Feb 25
    JacksonTownNews@gmail.com 722-3087 Spring is on the way - seed buying, garden layout planning, ordering Fedco trees, and real estate. It seems ...
  • Morrill news

    By Brenda Harford - Feb 25
    wisdomlady44@yahoo.com 322-4534 Reminder, attention for all Pre-K Pre-kindergarten has open enrollment at Glady's Weymouth Elementary School, and ...
  • Belfast police blotter

    Feb 25
    The Belfast Police Department reported three speeding violations, one inspection violation, one failure to maintain control of a motor vehicle ...
  • Waldo County sheriff's blotter

    Feb 25
    The Waldo County Sheriff's Office reported one speeding violation and the following recent activity: Feb. 11 Carol Goodwin, 60, of Hampden, ...
  • Prospect news

    By Ken Folette - Feb 25
    ~ Boston Post cane I recently had to look up a birth certificate dating back to the late 1800s. Dust blew through the air as I cracked open the ...
  • Waldo County closed cases

    Feb 25
    The following cases were closed in Waldo County criminal courts between Feb. 12 and Feb. 18: Tyler Jay Damon, 29, of Stockton Springs, Oct 1, ...
  • Flowers, lights to memorialize county's COVID-19 deaths

    By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 25
    By now, many of us have become numb to the daily numbers: the new cases of COVID-19, those in hospitals, and, sadly, those who have died. But it ...
  • Waldo County deed transfers

    Feb 25
    The following deed transfers were recorded from Feb. 12 through Feb. 18, 2021 at the Waldo County Registry of Deeds: BELFAST Albert P. Pusillo and ...
  • Swan Lake Grocery makes speedy comeback after fire

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 25
    After almost five months of construction, Swan Lake Grocery is poised to reopen its doors to the community March 3. On the evening of Tuesday, ...
  • Machias Savings is equity investor for affordable housing in ...

    Feb 24
    Machias Savings Bank announced Feb. 18 that it will act as equity investor in an affordable housing project currently under development by Realty ...
  • Recycling reform bill shifts responsibility for packaging to ...

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 24
    The Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and the Belfast Free Library sponsored a virtual presentation on plastic pollution and future solutions Feb. ...
  • USDA to invest $11 million in Belfast solar project

    Feb 23
    USDA Rural Development is investing $22,300,000 through loan guarantees for solar renewable energy projects located in two Maine communities ...
  • Searsmont news

    By Joyce and Mickey Sirota - Feb 23
    joycesirota@gmail.com; mickeysirota@gmail.com 322-7572; 322-5671 A vaccination tale We've been asked to pass along our experience getting vaccinate...
  • Appeals Board begins review of Planning Board’s Nordic ...

    By Kendra Caruso - Feb 23
    No determination was reached at the Zoning Board of Appeals' Feb. 18 meeting regarding the Planning Board's decision to issue Nordic Aquafarms ...
  • Belfast airport prepares requests for federal COVID relief ...

    By Kendra Caruso - Feb 23
    The federal government has made $29,000 available to the Belfast Municipal Airport between both COVID relief packages. The city is still in the ...
  • Island awards snow plowing contract to sole bidder

    By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 23
    The Select Board awarded the town's snow plowing contract for five years beginning Sept. 1 to Paul Hatch, the sole bidder, for a cost of $190,000 ...
  • Towns, hospital look at future of ambulance services

    By Susan Mustapich - Feb 23
    A study on emergency ambulance services in the towns of Camden, Rockport, Hope and Lincolnville is informing officials in those towns what has ...
  • Our Town Belfast to celebrate winter with ice festival

    By Kendra Caruso - Feb 23
    Our Town Belfast will host an ice festival Feb. 27 where ice sculptures will be placed throughout downtown, along with some ice sculpture demonstra...
  • Thorndike news

    By Linda Dixon - Feb 22
    The Town of Thorndike is soliciting bids on three foreclosed properties. Refer to thorndikemaine.com for specifications and requirements, which ...
  • Solar competitors join forces, plan to address shortage of ...

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 22
    Two employee-owned solar companies have joined forces with a goal of accelerating the regional transition to renewable energy, and meeting surging ...
  • City Council to try earlier meeting time starting in April

    By Kendra Caruso - Feb 22
    City Council decided at its Feb. 16 meeting to change the time its meetings start from 7 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on a three-month trial basis starting ...
  • Journalism scholarships available for Maine students

    Feb 22
    The Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholarship Fund and the Agnes Freyer Gibbs Scholarship Fund are inviting applications from Maine students. The ...
  • Waldo news

    By Sadie Lloyd Mudge - Feb 22
    waldotownnews@gmail.com Hello Waldo! Despite the icy day we had this week, I think this has been one of the better cross-county skiing years we ...
  • Board hears from owner of controversial rental property

    By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 22
    The Board of Selectmen heard from Jane Rago, co-owner of the 19th-century home on Lighthouse Road known as the Cow Palace, which she and her ...
  • Selectman candidates agree broadband is high priority

    By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 22
    While neither of the candidates running to fill out the rest of Zak Hollingshead's term on the Board of Selectmen has held elective office before, ...
  • Riley's Wish 2021; a fun day out on the lake

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 22
    On a frozen lake with a perimeter that takes in roughly 14 miles in Waldo County, a community came together to fish, socialize and honor a local ...
  • Frankfort news

    By Tom Seymour - Feb 22
    338-9746 tomseymour@gmail.com Residents of Frankfort Village were abruptly awakened in the wee hours last Thursday morning by the passage of the ...
  • Freedom news

    By Nathan McCann - Feb 22
    993-2031 freedomtownnews@columnist.com The Freedom Board of Selectmen met Feb. 16. Major topics of discussion included out of town vehicle ...
  • Searsport news

    By Lin Calista - Feb 21
    441-7810 searsportnews@gmail.com What are those tracks in my yard? Time to find out! Friends of Sears Island and Carver Memorial Library will ...
  • Stockton Springs news

    Feb 21
    Ezachary18@gmail.com 567-8067 Community builders What a great surprise on Valentine's Day to receive a gift from the Community Builders! It ...
  • Knox news

    By Rita Doughty - Feb 21
    knoxtownnews@yahoo.com 382-6783 Hello all, If anyone calls my house number ..leave a number at least... I will call you back. I can get my ...
  • Monroe news

    By Ashlie Stubbs - Feb 19
    ashliestubbs13@gmail.com 592-0336 Hello Monroe! I fear cabin fever may be setting in a bit early this year. The cold, cold temperatures combined ...
  • University of Maine Farmington names fall 2020 dean's list

    Feb 19
    The following Waldo County (plus Bucksport) students were named to the dean's list at University of Maine Farmington for the fall 2020 semester. ...
  • Prospect news

    By Ken Folette - Feb 19
    We welcome new Prospect columnist Ken Folette, who is also a deputy clerk for the town. He and his wife and family are recent transplants to the ...
  • CDC reports 218 new COVID-19 cases

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 18
    The daily COVID-19 case count in Maine jumped from 91 on Tuesday, to 218 today. There was no new report of the B117 variant, and hospitalizations ...
  • Waldo County closed cases

    Feb 18
    The following cases were closed in Waldo County criminal courts between Feb. 5 and Feb. 11: Edward R. Mylen, 41, of Brewer, aggravated trafficking ...
  • New Searsport clerk is familiar face

    By Fran Gonzalez - Feb 18
    On her first day on the job as the new Searsport town clerk, Harriet Clark said the day so far had been “kind of crazy,” with many tasks having to ...
  • Waldo County deed transfers

    Feb 18
    The following deed transfers were recorded from Feb. 5 through Feb. 11 at the Waldo County Registry of Deeds: BELFAST Barbara R. Drinkwater and ...
  • Catching up with the vice principal

    By Lucas Canning - Feb 18
    Mrs. Reynolds has been seen all over the school helping out this year. While most assistant principals spend their time in their offices, Mrs. ...
  • RSU 71 board opts not to enter into 20-year solar credit ...

    By Kendra Caruso - Feb 16
    Regional School Unit 71 Board of Directors decided against entering into a 20-year solar contract with a contractor building a local solar ...
  • Waldo County GOP attempts to ban former senators from office

    By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 16
    In December 2020, the Waldo County Republican Committee passed a resolution prohibiting two former state legislators, both Republicans, from ...
  • MaineHealth defends vaccinating all staff

    By Susan Mustapich - Feb 16
    MaineHealth issued two press releases the week of Feb. 8 in response to criticism that the health care company had administered COVID-19 vaccinatio...
  • Lincolnville officials join regional broadband group

    By Susan Mustapich - Feb 16
    Selectmen see access to high speed internet service as out of reach for many of Lincolnville's residents, even though the service is available to ...
  • Dr. Mark Eggena provides a COVID 19 update January 21, 2021

    Jan 21
    We talked to Dr. Mark Eggena of Pen Bay Medical Center Thursday, Jan. 21 about the local vaccine rollout and clinics, the variants in the virus, ...
  • Art Auction Supporting Journalism

    Jul 06
    Courier Publications will be holding an online art auction July 13-22 on Facebook to support quality local journalism in Knox, Lincoln and Waldo ...
  • Mount View High School senior slideshow and faculty ' ...

    Jun 18
    Mount View High School honored its senior class with a slideshow of the graduates, while the faculty put together a video to Katy Perry's song ...
  • Searsport District High School 2020 graduation

    Jun 17
    After a postponement from last week, the seniors of Searsport District High School received their diplomas Monday night, June 15. To view the ...
  • Mount View High School senior night

    Jun 16
    Mount View High School hosted a senior night for the graduates and families of the 2020 class Sunday, June 14.
  • Belfast Area High School 2020 graduation

    Jun 14
    The seniors of Belfast Area High School received their diplomas at the Belfast Municipal Airport on Saturday, June 13.
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    By Meteorologist Tyler ... - May 22
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