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Casting call: Want to be in a movie?
Casting call: Want to be in a movie?

Maine filmmakers to start shooting Reversing Falls in September on Blue Hill Peninsula

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Blueberry grower optimistic that 2026 harvest will top last year’s yield
Blueberry grower optimistic that 2026 harvest will top last year’s yield

Some fields producing as much as 6,000 pounds of berries per acre

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Astronaut landing in Blue Hill to recruit ‘Earth Crew’
Astronaut landing in Blue Hill to recruit ‘Earth Crew’

Shaw Institute collaborates with Nicole Stott, becoming ‘Earth’s Crew’

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GSA announces new cell phone policy
GSA announces new cell phone policy

More information on the "bell-to-bell" ban for student devices

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Blue Hill to hold special town meeting on sewage pipe funding mechanisms
Blue Hill to hold special town meeting on sewage pipe funding mechanisms

Select board also wants authorization to sell or repurpose large generator 

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Putting the ‘skill’ in skillet toss
Putting the ‘skill’ in skillet toss

Insights and tips from an intercontinental reigning champ

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Car lands in Deer Isle mudflats
Car lands in Deer Isle mudflats

Rescue crews pull unconscious driver and trapped passenger from car

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Colby professor to discuss how climate change impacts public health
Colby professor to discuss how climate change impacts public health

Sept. 3 event organized by Brooklin Climate Response Committee

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LIFESTYLE

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Cape Rosier woman shares an elephant love lesson
Cape Rosier woman shares an elephant love lesson

Baby elephant foster parent speaks on connection to the world's largest land mammal

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Documentary about Brooklin Boat Yard to be screened at Venice Film Festival
Documentary about Brooklin Boat Yard to be screened at Venice Film Festival

Film about ‘community, its craftspeople, and how they depend on each other’ also has some ‘tough moments’

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THE U-TURN: New way to mow a lawn
THE U-TURN: New way to mow a lawn

Plus, local firefighters hold kids event at Blue Hill Public Library

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83-year-old ‘key to city’ given to East Blue Hill Public Library
83-year-old ‘key to city’ given to East Blue Hill Public Library

Wooden ‘key to the city’ returned to East Blue Hill Public Library

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POEM: The King of Orange
POEM: The King of Orange

The monarch butterfly’s enigmatic migration

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POEM: Short summer
POEM: Short summer

‘We wait so long…it goes so fast’

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Penobscot man carries on the Rowantrees tradition
Penobscot man carries on the Rowantrees tradition

Geoff Miller learned to make one of the Blue Hill’s Peninsula’s most iconic pottery styles 45 years ago. Now he keeps the flame alive.

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COPS & COURTS

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DOT signs stolen
DOT signs stolen

Police log for Aug. 16-22

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PUBLIC MEETINGS

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Bucksport Town Council Meeting
Aug 27
Bucksport Town Council Meeting

Council meetings are held at the Bucksport Town Office on the second and fourth Thursdays of every month at 6:00 p.m. Meeting agendas are posted at the Town Office and on the website.

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Sedgwick Select Board
Aug 27
Sedgwick Select Board

Meetings are held at the Sedgwick Town Office.

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Blue Hill Select Board Meeting
Aug 31
Blue Hill Select Board Meeting

The Select Board generally meets every Monday evening at 5:30pm at Town Hall, and occasionally holds “working sessions” at other times. All of these meetings, to the extent practicable, are listed on the Town calendar.

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Surry Select Board Meeting
Sep 2
Surry Select Board Meeting

Select Board meetings are held at 6pm on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month in the Surry Fire Department meeting room.

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Sedgwick Select Board
Sep 3
Sedgwick Select Board

Meetings are held at the Sedgwick Town Office.

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Brooklin Selectman Meeting
Sep 8
Brooklin Selectman Meeting
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Castine - Selectboard, Assessors & Overseers of the Poor Meeting
Sep 8
Castine - Selectboard, Assessors & Overseers of the Poor Meeting
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Castine - Planning Board Work Session
Sep 8
Castine - Planning Board Work Session
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OPINIONS

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20 years after ‘Tire Tracks’ left a mark
20 years after ‘Tire Tracks’ left a mark

Let’s use the anniversary of a film about burning rubber to shape our shared future

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LETTER: Raising the alarm on surveillance cameras
LETTER: Raising the alarm on surveillance cameras

We shouldn’t allow Flock Safety cameras into our community

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LETTER: The loss of fisheries should be an alarm for humans
LETTER: The loss of fisheries should be an alarm for humans

Our understanding of the mechanisms of extinction is woefully inadequate, says a Brooklin resident

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