Newcastle News

THOMASTON : Maine Friends of Music will return to the General Henry Knox Museum for their fourth concert in the Oval Room 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 8. The museum, also known as Montpelier, is located on Route 131 right after the traffic light intersection with Route 1. The concert program will feature works by Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Scarlatti, Telemann, ...

NEWCASTLE : Last week the House passed the Waxman-Markey bill or the climate-change bill or the cap and trade bill or whatever you want to call it.

WALDOBORO : The Waldoboro Lions Club held its annual Installation Dinner on June 17 at the North Nobleboro Community Center.

WINSLOW, Maine a ' Maine state biologists are investigating a report of a mountain lion sighting in Winslow.

WALDOBORO : A concert featuring the church's 1875 Hook and Hastings organ, as well as piano, violin and bass violin, will be given Friday, July 10 at 7 p.m. at Broad Bay Congregational United Church of Christ.

ROCKLAND : Pen Bay Healthcare Foundation's newly created Hospice House Committee is comprised of supporters and PBH staff who are working in the community to raise awareness of hospice and to raise funds for Kno-Wal-Lin Home Care and Hospice's planned Hospice House.

DAMARISCOTTA : Liz Petruska of Waldoboro is among the cast members of "Independence," which will open River Company's 12th season 8 p.m. Friday, June 19, in the Porter Meeting Hall of Skidompha Public Library, Elm Street entrance.

The Pine Tree State is home to more than four-thousand islands, give or take a few hundred depending on the tide and just how much rock you think an island makes.

NEWCASTLE : Maine's senior Senator and Senator John Rockefeller of West Virginia are conspiring on a bill to give the government more control over the Internet.

THOMASTON : The Damariscotta Montessori School has officially broken ground for their expansion this summer.

THOMASTON : The annual Kno-Wal-Lin Auxiliary Card Party will be held at the St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Thomaston on Friday, June 19 from 1 to 4 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 and includes dessert.

NEWCASTLE : 60 Minutes recently ran a story on Reversatrol, the latest snake oil promising perpetual youth.

AUGUSTA : The Maine House defeated a bill May 18 that would have required all motorcyclists and their passengers to wear helmets.

A bald eagle cries out while perched in white pine near the Great Salt Bay in Newcastle.

NEWCASTLE : In 1751 the Colonial Agent of the Province of Pennsylvania sought the purchase of a bell for the State House steeple.

A great blue heron, left, takes flight from the rock it was sharing with a great black-backed gull on a misty morning on Great Salt Bay in Newcastle, Maine.

NEWCASTLE : In 1751 the Colonial Agent of the Province of Pennsylvania sought the purchase of a bell for the State House steeple.

WALDOBORO : The Waldoboro Woman's Club met April 14 at the VFW. The hostesses were Dona Williams and Bette Hilton.

A man wanted in Massachusetts for armed robbery and in Vermont for kidnapping is suspected of scamming a Woolwich family out of $7,000 and stealing a car from a dealership in Newcastle.

NEWCASTLE : One of the nice things that happens in May, on Maine rivers, is the return of the alewives.