Rockland News

The Maine Department of Transportation is ready to start fixing the 65-foot chasm in Old County Road.

"Mega" cruise ships will be required to pay $6 per passenger if they want to come to Rockland, city councilors agreed March 8. The council voted 4-1 to hike the fee from the $1 per passenger that had been in place.

On Friday, March 12, University College at Rockland will host a career development session about academic programs and professional careers in business administration from 10:00 - 11:00AM. Brenda McAleer, Professor of Business at the University of Maine at Augusta, will talk about academic preparation for job opportunities in small businesses and ...

A trial has begun for a Maine lobsterman charged with shooting a fellow fisherman in the neck in a dispute over fishing territory in the lobster-rich waters off Matinicus Island.

The Coast Guard is seeking the public's assistance with the investigation of a reported ship sinking in Maine.

Skowhegan Area high School and Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield are among more than two dozen schools to compete later this month in the Maine Drama Festival.

The U.S. Navy will send a ship to visit Rockland during the 63rd annual Maine Lobster Festival in August.

The cast and crew of Rockland District High School's "Wiley and The Hairy Man" celebrate their Midcoast regional Class B win of the 2010 Maine Drama Festival.

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The Rockland Contra Dance series began in October and is presented on the second Sunday of each month in the first-floor dance studio of Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education, 24 Lincoln St.

Adam Miceli of the Rockland Fire Department works at the scene March 3. Rockland a ' Rockland firefighters rushed to the scene of a fire in a home at 258 Rankin St.

Emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle accident on Route 17 near the Union-Washington town line around 6 p.m. on March 2, and the state highway was temporarily closed in that vicinity.

Passengers return to the Jewel of the Seas from Rockland's Harbor Park last Oct.

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The Rockland City Council has a lengthy agenda before it on Monday night, March A 1, including a continued discussion of Central Maine Power's tree cutting program.

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Rockland residents who want to re-register their motor vehicles now only need to make one stop.

The annual meeting for the Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse will be held Wednesday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the Rockland Yacht Club in Harbor Park.

Officials say the more they learn about the sinkhole on Old County Road in Rockland, the more they realize it's going to be extremely difficult to fix.

The honor graduates for the class of 2010 at Rockland District High School are, from left, front row, Kotaro Taniguchi, valedictorian Jennifer Herbert and salutatorian Hayli Kinney; and back row, Ian Ellis, Vinh Nguyen, Haley Wotton, Cameron Paddock McCrea, Everett Spear IV, Alexander Peabody, Hannah Woodman, Kayla McGuire and Kyle Fowlie.