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Driver falls asleep at wheel, does estimated $10,000 in damage to vehicle
A 20-year-old driver who reportedly fell asleep while driving early Wednesday morning, March 26 escaped serious injury, but the outcome was not as favorable for the vehicle involved after it skidded...
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Increased cost to run new town office generates discussion at Frankfort town...
More than 60 residents of Frankfort attended their annual town meeting and moved quickly through a 46-article warrant Friday, March 28. Article 43, which sought to fund the new Town Office by raising...
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Montville adjusts salaries, donations in town warrant
Montville residents passed their town warrant quickly, with some adjustments to salaries and charitable donations and an amendment to the amount of notice given for sale of properties obtained by the...
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Voters sail through warrant, re-elect selectman, road commissioner
Residents breezed through a 49-article warrant and passed every article with little discussion during the annual town meeting at the Prospect Fire Station Saturday, March 29. "The meeting went very...
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Liberty voters approve 6-month, 1-year budgets to control cash flow
A crowd of more than 100 Liberty residents thinned to less than 40 by the end of the six-hour Town Meeting March 29, but the 31-article town warrant was approved with few adjustments. Town officials...
View ArticleBelfast looking to community members to start up low-power radio station
The city of Belfast is exploring options for operating a low-power FM radio station after receiving a permit from the Federal Communications Commission. Recently, the city hosted a meeting at the...
View ArticleBAHS Science Olympians take home six medals from States
On Saturday, March 28, the Belfast Area High School Science Olympiad Team traveled to the University of Maine in Orono to compete in the Maine State Science Olympiad Tournament. Teams from 16 private...
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Brooks man arrested after boy, 7, comes to school with injuries
A Brooks man is facing two domestic violence assault charges after a seven-year-old boy went to school Friday morning, March 28, and told staff members there that the man had been physically abusing...
View ArticleReport offers suggestions for improving pedestrian safety in Belfast
A final report has been released following a walkability audit that was conducted in early March focusing on the Route 3 and Main Street corridor from the Reny's plaza to the downtown. A group of...
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Father, son spot bobcat at home in Northport
Josh Outerbridge and his son Lincoln got a rare treat when a bobcat wandered into their yard in Northport on Friday, March 28. Outerbridge said the bobcat was interested in their bird feeder where...
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Three arrested for possessing, selling prescription pills
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested three people for possessing and distributing oxycodone pills in Waldo County. Agents with the Mid-Coast District Task force as well as officers from the...
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City officials identify option for reducing Harbor Walk lighting along...
City officials have received a revised plan to address concerns from neighbors near Steamboat Landing regarding lighting along the Harbor Walk in the park. The plan submitted by Bath-based Bartlett...
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Big cats return to New England
Sightings of cougars throughout the east have been reported with greater frequency, though the mystery of whether breeding populations of these big cats are back in Maine remains. One expert on big...
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Belfast's farmers market moves back outdoors
Though this season's vegetable crops are still a ways off, the Belfast Farmers Market's winter vendors were at the first outdoor farmers market of the year, Friday, April 4, selling root vegetables,...
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Small Business Administration recognizes veteran's effort to open Belfast...
The pounding of hammers and buzz of saws can be heard through the open doorways of the former Jed's Restaurant as the previously vacant building is being transformed over the next few months into a...
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Belfast's farmers market moves outdoors
Though this season's vegetable crops are still a ways off, the Belfast Farmers Market's winter vendors were at the first outdoor farmers market of the year, April 4, selling root vegetables, meat,...
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WCTC employee accused of sexually assaulting student
An employee at the Waldo County Technical Center and local high school coach was arrested on a charge of gross sexual assault Friday night, April 4, after police say he admitted to having sexual...
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Knox man killed in I-95 head-on collision
A Knox man was killed in a head-on collision on Interstate 95 in Hamden during the evening hours of Sunday, April 6. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said 39-year-old...
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Federal trial on Penobscot River mercury pollution delayed one month
Judge John Woodcock Jr. granted a motion by the plaintiffs to delay the federal trial over mercury pollution in the Penobscot River by four weeks. Attorney Mitchell Bernard, who represents the Natural...
View ArticleBelfast hires engineering firm to study Inner Harbor space issues
Belfast officials authorized the city to enter into an agreement with a Camden-based engineering firm for the purpose of conducting a study to determine how the city can maximize space in the Inner...
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