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Tensions simmer as lobster season nears
ROCKLAND, Maine — On a sparkling, springlike morning, Spc. Matt Talbot of the Maine Marine Patrol helped launch his agency’s fastest boat into Rockland Harbor. more
By Abigail Curtis
BDN Staff | 3/17/10 | 3072 views
Media Workshops sets $10,000 scholarships
ROCKPORT, Maine — Maine Media Workshops has launched a new scholarship fund for Maine high school students attending MMW’s Young Artists Program. Partnering with Camden National Bank, MMW has … more
By BDN Staff
BDN Staff | 3/16/10 | 432 views
Boat raffle to benefit Maine Lobster Institute
ISLESBORO, Maine — When lobsterman Josh Conover got a new boat to replace his all-wood 1977 vessel, he knew he wanted to do something interesting with the old boat. more
By Heather Steeves
BDN Staff | 3/15/10 | 2112 views
Acquittal in shooting spurs hope, wariness
ROCKLAND, Maine — For Edwin Vance Bunker, the end of his trial means the knot in his stomach has finally come undone. more
By Heather Steeves
BDN Staff | 3/15/10 | 4611 views
Camden Snow Bowl closes for the season
CAMDEN, Maine — The Camden Snow Bowl yielded to the promise of spring and closed for the season on March 13. more
By Heather Steeves
BDN Staff | 3/13/10 | 1380 views
Matinicus duo found not guilty in shooting
ROCKLAND, Maine — A Matinicus lobsterman and his daughter wept Friday as a Knox County jury acquitted them of charges in connection with a shooting on the town dock last summer. more
By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff | 3/13/10 | 27319 views
Defendants not guilty in lobsterman shooting trial
ROCKLAND, Maine - A jury has found a Maine lobsterman and his daughter not guilty on all charges stemming from the shooting a fellow lobsterman in a feud over lobster traps off Matinicus Island. … more
By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff | 3/12/10 | 2360 views
Jury to resume deliberations in lobsterman shooting case
ROCKLAND, Maine — Jury deliberations in the shooting trial of a Matinicus man and his daughter will resume today. more
By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff | 3/11/10 | 3408 views
Matinicus lobsterman testifies in own defense
ROCKLAND, Maine — The Matinicus lobsterman charged with shooting a fellow fisherman on the town dock last summer took the stand in his own defense late Wednesday to describe how rising tensions … more
By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff | 3/11/10 | 2676 views
Sinkhole repairs begin
ROCKLAND, Maine — Maine Department of Transportation crews began repairs Wednesday on “Maine’s largest pothole,” a 65-foot-deep sinkhole that opened on Old County Road last month. DOT … more
By Heather Steeves
BDN Staff | 3/11/10 | 2120 views
Boy testifies about events leading up to shooting
ROCKLAND, Maine — A 13-year-old New Hampshire boy who spends summers on Matinicus testified Wednesday about events leading up to the July 20, 2009, shooting on the town wharf. Edwin Vance … more
By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff | 3/10/10 | 2672 views
Waldo County rejects sheriff’s office options
BELFAST, Maine — Waldo County commissioners rejected several alternative options to building a new sheriff’s office and Emergency Management Agency office at a Tuesday meeting. more
By Heather Steeves
BDN Staff | 3/10/10 | 434 views
Five Town CSD proposes to reduce 13 positions
ROCKPORT, Maine — The Five Town CSD finance committee at its Saturday meeting proposed to reduce 13 positions at Camden Hills Regional High School to cope with state funding reductions for 2010-11. … more
By Heather Steeves
BDN Staff | 3/10/10 | 455 views
Police seek woman in ‘scary’ incident
BELFAST, Maine — Belfast police are looking for a woman who may have tried Tuesday afternoon to entice a young girl into her car using a puppy. more
By Nok-Noi Ricker
BDN Staff | 3/10/10 | 9683 views
Belfast police seeking driver who approached small girl
BELFAST, Maine — Belfast police are looking for a woman who reportedly tried Tuesday afternoon to entice a young girl into her car using a puppy. Belfast police Officer Howard Dakin said it’s … more
By Nok-Noi Ricker
BDN Staff | 3/9/10 | 210 views
Witness: Victim made death threat
ROCKLAND, Maine — Just before Edwin Vance Bunker pepper sprayed the man he would end up shooting on the Matinicus town dock last summer, the victim threatened to kill him, according to testimony … more
By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff | 3/10/10 | 5021 views
Lobsterman shot in neck testifies
ROCKLAND, Maine — The Matinicus lobsterman who was shot in the neck last summer told a Knox County jury Monday that he was angry but unarmed when he got into a confrontation over trap cutting with Edwin Vance Bunker and his daughter Janan Miller on the town dock. more
By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff | 3/9/10 | 3204 views
Source of distress call still under investigation
ROCKLAND, Maine — The Coast Guard is continuing to investigate the source of a distress call Saturday that resulted in a massive search effort in Penobscot Bay which turned up nothing. more
By Heather Steeves
BDN Staff | 3/9/10 | 940 views
Lobsterman shooting trial under way on midcoast
ROCKLAND, Maine — A jury will decide whether a Matinicus lobsterman and his daughter were defending themselves or acting recklessly last summer when Christopher Young, a fellow lobster fisherman, … more
By The Associated Press
| 3/8/10 | 2149 views
Fishery talks center on research, marketing
ROCKPORT, Maine — In light of mounting economic and environmental changes in Maine’s commercial fishing industry, at least two concepts seem to be cropping up more consistently among people who … more
By Bill Trotter
BDN Staff | 3/8/10 | 1087 views
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