The Maine Department of Environmental Protection decided Thursday that Nordic Aquafarms’ pending permit applications are complete for processing. Read More
Stockton Springs residents voted 230 to 57 to accept Stockton Springs Elementary School, which was closed for good by RSU 20 two years ago. Read More
Voters in Freedom overwhelmingly decided on Tuesday to keep their town government the way it is. Read More
Hops, grain and grapes may rule the roost — or glass — elsewhere, but at Perennial Cider Bar & Farm Kitchen in Belfast, the apple is king. Read More
“This community is just so wonderful and just pulled together. It gives you renewed faith.” Read More
Austin McDevitt's attorneys have argued he shot the man in self defense. Read More
Belfast city councilors took a deep dive into some of the city’s parking and traffic problems at Tuesday night’s regular meeting and made some changes to how cars and trucks will move through downtown. Read More
The Tarratine Tribe has declined to make Redmen’s Hall available to the city as a polling place. But that didn’t keep Belfast councilors and Mayor Samantha Paradis from talking about the private group’s name for the second meeting in a row. Read More
The sprawling events center, which formerly served as a corporate retreat for the MBNA credit card empire, is the largest employer and the largest property taxpayer in Northport. Read More
Maine has a reputation for high quality seafood. With the demand for seafood rising to meet growing populations, salmon farmers are looking to the Pine Tree State as a site for future aquafarms. Read More
A Dutch company that produces yellowtail in Europe wants to start a land-based fish farm on the coast of Maine, according to a seafood industry trade publication. Read More
A Bangor man has been indicted on manslaughter and other charges five months after a car crash that claimed a Searsport teen's life. Read More
The executive director of the soon-to-be-shuttered Broadreach Family & Community Services sent a memo to all his staff Wednesday saying that the agency plans to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Read More
After 35 years and thousands of people helped, a Belfast-based nonprofit agency that provides mental health, early child intervention and other services to people in three counties last week abruptly announced its imminent closure. Read More
Next month, voters in those communities will decide if they want to accept this gift or tell the school district thanks, but no thanks. Read More
The council’s discussion around the name of the hall briefly flared into something of a confrontation between Mayor Samantha Paradis and Councilor Neal Harkness. Read More
The move from Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset to the Somerset County Jail in East Madison will save Waldo County taxpayers about $200,000 a year. Read More
It was a long, cold winter and a longer, muddier spring. No one knows that more than the residents of Freedom. Read More
A lot has changed for educators over the past 45 years. But at Gladys A. Weymouth Elementary School in Morrill, some things haven’t changed at all, where Susan Olson and Kay Dodd have welcomed young minds into the world of education. Read More
Officials from Nordic Aquafarms are rejecting the idea that the company’s pending application for a submerged lands lease should be summarily thrown out by the Maine Bureau of Public Lands. Read More
