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This Maine school desperately needs repairs. Residents are suing to stop them.
On days with heavy rain, teachers at the 49-year-old Boothbay Region Elementary School must shield their classrooms from the leaks in the roof. Water comes in from the concrete parapets, drenching any...
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Hiker seriously injured in fall from Cliff Trail
An adult hiker was seriously injured Thursday, Oct. 10, after she fell roughly 25 feet from Harpswell’s Cliff Trail onto a rocky intertidal area, local officials said. Harpswell first responders...
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Why so many midcoast towns have names like Hope and Freedom
With just under a month until Election Day, Americans are getting swamped by all manner of signs, ads and other messages promoting the lofty ideals of candidates seeking higher office. For anyone who...
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A ‘Joy’ duck among items buried in new Belfast time capsule
After Belfast celebrated its 250th birthday last year, community members buried a time capsule in front of City Hall on Tuesday as a way of celebrating the city’s history and looking ahead to its...
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Man allegedly threatens woman with gun in Bath and both are arrested
Bath police arrested two people on Sunday after being called to a house for a report of a man threatening a woman with a gun. Police received a call at about 11 a.m. reporting the alleged threat at an...
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A Maine radio project is connecting people with different views
In the same year as a heated national election is dividing many Americans, a radio project based in eastern Maine is trying to unite them despite their varied backgrounds and political beliefs. For...
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Opponents of Belfast fish farm welcome early findings of new border survey
Opponents of the stalled-out project to build a land-based fish farm in Belfast are welcoming the preliminary findings of a surveyor whom the city recently hired to identify the boundaries between it...
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Rockland will hire a consultant to help with its housing crisis
The Rockland City Council unanimously authorized the city manager to establish a housing working group and hire a housing consultant at its Wednesday meeting as its next step in addressing the housing...
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New owner will reopen Belfast candy store and soda fountain
A candy shop and soda fountain that closed in downtown Belfast at the end of last month will soon reopen under new owners. Steve Ashey, who lives in Stockton Springs, has bought the Chocolate Drop...
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A haiku death match is coming to Belfast
The pen will indeed be mightier than the sword when the Belfast Poetry Festival kicks off on Friday. Closing out the first day of the festival will be a new event called the haiku death match, in...
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Maine’s international ferry is seeing more riders
After facing a series of challenges over several years, the CAT ferry in Bar Harbor has wrapped up a third season of increased ridership and stability. The ferry service to Canada, which was once the...
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Owner of dog shot by Searsport police charged with arson
A Stockton Springs man whose dog was shot by police during an arrest last week has now been accused of setting fire to his home. Rodney Damon, 44, is facing charges of arson, failure to control or...
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Missing man found dead on shore of Maine town
A missing man was found dead on the shore of Cushing on Friday. Donald McBeth, 83, a seasonal resident from Vero Beach, Florida, was reported missing about 7 p.m. Friday when he failed to attend a...
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Man airlifted to Bangor hospital after Unity crash
A man was airlifted to a Bangor hospital after an early Sunday morning crash in Unity. He was driving on Main Street about 3:55 a.m. when the crash happened, Detective Brad Hanson of the Waldo County...
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A Maine warming center had to close. Then the community stepped in.
When an overnight warming center in Brunswick announced it was closing this spring, it portended a regional crisis. A point-in-time count conducted this January found 119 homeless people in midcoast...
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2 candidates vying for Rockland council seat
Two candidates, including the mayor, are competing for a City Council seat in Rockland this fall. Retired physics professor David Statman is running against Mayor Nicole Kalloch for the council’s only...
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Midcoast Maine isn’t easy to get around without a car. That could change.
By mile four of my walk home from a recent event in downtown Brunswick, I really wished I’d done more research on transportation in the area. I live in neighboring Harpswell, and we’d used the app...
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Feds deny Maine’s request for $456M to help build offshore wind port
The federal government turned down Maine’s request for a $456 million grant that would cover most of the cost of building an offshore wind port on Sears Island, officials confirmed Tuesday. The Maine...
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2 dead, 2 hospitalized after carbon monoxide exposure at Freedom home
Two people died and at least two people were hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning on Tuesday. The people, who have not been identified, were found at a 555 Belfast Road residence at around 6...
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Belfast is expanding its city hall into the old courthouse next door
Belfast officials are in the early stages of moving some municipal operations out of the increasingly cramped city hall and into the former Waldo County Superior Court building that’s located next...
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