Belfast News

Quick update on National Maritime Day from Belfast, Maine. What got me here was this vessel, today a platform for tours between here and the Arctic mostly.

Annual exhibition of work by Maine artists age 55 and older at the University of Maine's Hutchinson Center, 80 Belmont Ave./Route 3, Belfast.

Alan Magee of Cushing is this year's featured guest speaker at the Festival of Art, an annual exhibition at the University of Maine's Hutchinson Center in Belfast.

Students from Bar Harbor, Bangor, Belfast, Lincolnville, Riley, Searsport and Winterport competed in the all day event.

I received word this morning that John Ford Sr., the author of "Suddenly the Cider Didn't Taste So Good," has written another book, and it'll be available later this month.

Regional School Unit 20 Superintendent Brian Carpenter said the district's proposed $33.5 million budget is a combination of declining revenues and increasing expenses, a scenario that has left few options for reducing costs while preserving the quality of education provided to students.

In this Thursday, May 9, 2013 photo, wild sockeye salmon is smoked at the Ducktrap River company, in Belfast, Maine.

John Burgess, owner of Camden Hills Realty , announced that Brian Walker has elected to affiliate with the Northport based real estate firm.

The 2013 Energy Fair, hosted by the Island Institute's Energy for ME energy-education project team, drew scores of students and teachers from 10 coastal and island schools to the University of Maine's Hutchinson Center in Belfast on Friday, May 10.

City councilors signed off on a change order request for the construction of a ramp that connects the Harbor Walk to the Armistice Bridge Tuesday, May 7. The change order is the result of a need for the city to purchase different materials, which are also more expensive to construct the ramp, City Planner Wayne Marshall explained.

On Thursday, June 13, at 1 p.m. the Belfast Co-op is sponsoring a tour of Coastal Farms and Foods in Belfast, the midcoast's new food processing hub.

For one week, Belfast Free Library, 106 High St., will host Family Crisis Services' "More Than a Rap Sheet: The Real Stories of Incarcerated Women," an exhibit featuring photographs and the poems of Maine's incarcerated women.

Nutritionist John Bagnulo will give a free talk Wednesday, May 22, at 7 p.m. at the Lincolnville Community Library.

Goose River Apartments located on 6 Alberta Way, Belfast is now taking applications and will be ready for occupancy mid-summer, 2013.

It was a celebration of trains big and small in Bangor on Saturday. Operation lifesaver --a railroad safety group-- held an exhibit at the Airport Mall to commemorate national train day.

Mr Hutchings is a math teacher at Belfast Area High School. He has been teaching for 33 years, the last 25 of them in Belfast, following a year in Deer Isle and seven in Lincolnville.

Sears is under new management and the owners are looking to provide the best service in the area they were born and raised.

Great condition double wide with fireplace and a 30'x36' insulated workshop garage in a nice area of Lincolnville and short drive to Camden or Belfast.

Last Sunday May 5th there was an open house at the town hall for folks to come see the beautiful cash register that used to be in the Monroe General Store when the Palmer's ran it.

The eighth-grade students at Wagner Middle School are continuing to raise money for their field trip to Boston on June 7. Raffle tickets are still available for a remote control "Stampede" truck, and JCM Redemption has an account set up for bottle return money.