Quantcast
Channel: Midcoast Archives - Bangor Daily News
Browsing all 878 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A midcoast native is opening the 1st virtual lobster museum

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Winterport at odds with race track over more expensive lease

Winterport officials and the group that runs the local dragway can’t agree on a new lease that would allow car racing to resume at the town-owned property this year. For decades, the Winterport...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

1 dead after explosions and fire in Warren

One person is dead after explosions and a fire in a garage in Warren. The fire broke out about 10:07 a.m. Monday at the home on Ridgewood Drive, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why Mainers don’t like Coast Guard’s plan to remove marker buoys

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is reopening this week

New England’s largest botanical garden is reopening for the season on Thursday, boasting more programming and classes, renovations for a new plant habitat and the groundbreaking of a new horticulture...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

2 pets die after fire tears through Searsport home

  A Searsport home was destroyed and two pets died in a fire Tuesday afternoon. The fire is believed to have started in the kitchen on the front side of the home on 438 East Main St., according to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Palermo man’s death ruled homicide

A man who was found dead outside a home in Palermo earlier this month was killed, Maine State Police said on Tuesday. On April 19 at about 10:30 a.m. police were called to 128 Boots and Saddle Road in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

18-year-old and minor charged with Rockland car burglaries

An 18-year-old and several juveniles are facing charges for car burglaries in Rockland. On Tuesday, police arrested 18-year-old Timothy Gleason and charged him with felony theft, burglary of a motor...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Winterport cuts ties with longtime operator of race track

After weeks of debate, Winterport has cut ties with the longtime operator of the local car racing track and made plans for a new group to take it over. On Tuesday night, the Town Council voted to...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Freight rail service resuming in the midcoast

A Maine railroad operator is resuming freight service between Brunswick and Rockland after it was stopped in June of last year in the wake of a Thomaston cement plant closing its manufacturing. The...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How much you could pay for a lobster roll in Maine this season

Tourism season is fast-approaching, and lobster shacks across Maine are preparing to open their doors to locals and visitors alike. While few of them have yet determined what they’ll charge for the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pedestrian in serious condition after pickup truck hits him near BIW

A pedestrian was seriously injured Thursday morning after a pickup truck hit him near Bath Iron Works. The 27-year-old Bath man was in the crosswalk on Commercial Street, near the intersection with...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Maine softens limits on riprap in new shoreline restoration rules

State environmental regulators have approved new rules for shoreline restoration projects in Maine that streamline how they will be handled and encourage more use of natural solutions, after agencies...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How Maine women can learn carpentry as they build a midcoast home

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Maine’s top court denies appeal of Lincolnville man’s manslaughter conviction

Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court has rejected an appeal filed by a Lincolnville man convicted of manslaughter in the 2023 death of his roommate. Matthew Pendleton, 49, was initially charged with murder...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why a Maine newspaper opened its own cafe

There’s a new, bustling cafe on Mechanic Street in Camden, where visitors can grab lunch and coffee. It’s also the only eatery in the state — possibly even the nation — where they can expect to speak...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

They want to create Maine’s biggest scallop farm in Penobscot Bay

Andrew Peters was on a waitlist for a lobster license. Then he learned it was possible to farm scallops in Maine. For the last seven years, Peters and his wife Samantha have been trying to do so...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New wine bar opens in downtown Belfast

Pulling Corks, a new wine bar in downtown Belfast, has seen steady business in the month since it was opened by owners David Speer and Kristin Amundson-Speer. The Speers, who moved to Maine in recent...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Lawmakers want to force Maine to keep docking ferries overnight on islands

Lawmakers along Maine’s coast have introduced a bill that would require the State Ferry Service to berth its vessels on the unbridged islands that it serves off the midcoast and Hancock County. The...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

FBI probe of Maine waste station remains a mystery

More than a month after federal law enforcement agents apparently raided the Boothbay-area waste transfer station, officials have yet to share any details about what was investigated. The FBI...

View Article
Browsing all 878 articles
Browse latest View live


<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>