Matinicus News

Two islands will receive bills from Knox County for interest on late payments made to the county.

A Coast Guard rescue helicopter was called in Sunday to airlift an injured person from a sailboat near Matinicus Island.

AUGUSTA : The following bills relating to maritime issues were submitted to the Legislative Council for consideration in the coming short session of the Maine Legislature.

What most Mainers have not heard is what really is going on in Matinicus and other locations in the state of Maine.

Submitted by Eva Murray on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 9:18am. Four of us were expected at the Island Teacher's Conference, sponsored by the Island Institute and held in Belfast last week.

DAMARISCOTTA : Lincoln County Community Theater and Orchestra will open its fall musical "Once Upon A Mattress" Friday, Oct.

WALDOBORO : The Friends of the Waldoboro Public Library will wrap up its programs for the year with a talk by Eva Murray from Matinicus Island on Tuesday, Oct.

MATINICUS : Many Matinicus islanders still use outhouses rather than traditional bathrooms.

Submitted by Eva Murray on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 5:08am. My season has ended. The big steel display rack is down, and there are no more wee dark hours with Hobart the mixer and the BBC on the radio.

The day after one Maine lobsterman shot another on a wharf on the two-square-mile patch of Matinicus Island, islander Nat Hussey heard another shocker: State officials thought they would pacify the island's lobstermen by shutting them down for two weeks in midsummer.

ROCKLAND : A Superior Court judge has agreed to allow a 68-year-old Matinicus lobsterman, indicted for a July shooting, to return to the island.

ROCKLAND : The following cases were closed in Sixth District Court in Rockland from Sept.

The two-day clinic was sponsored by the Maine Seacoast Mission. The Mission paid the travel expenses of the veterinarian and the technician.

ROCKLAND : Julia's Gallery for Young Artists at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Matinicus Island School will present "Matinicus: The Place Beyond." The show will open with a 5 to 7 p.m. reception Thursday, Sept.

Pingree had asked for a briefing earlier in the week to learn why the Coast Guard had banned boats from the area around Seal Island, a remote 65-acre wildlife refuge about 8-and-a-half miles south of Vinalhaven and 21 miles from Rockland.

Submitted by Eva Murray on Fri, 09/11/2009 - 12:41pm. Do you remember where you were on the day we call "Nine-Eleven?" Imagine the scene if your winter home were only a few blocks from what they were soon calling Ground Zero - the fear, the mess, the police, the structural uncertainty, the dust, the reporters, the worry.

MATINICUS : A Matinicus lobsterman has filed a lawsuit against his insurance companies, claiming they failed to defend him from a lawsuit filed by another island lobsterman.

MATINICUS : The Matinicus Historical Society was recently granted its federal nonprofit status.

ROCKLAND : At 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, the Farnsworth Art Museum will continue its Curator's Choice series of gallery talks with a closer look at landscapes completed around 1935 by Marguerite Zorach, Marsden Hartley, Allen Erskine Philbrick and Carol Thayer Berry, all of whom worked in Maine.

MATINICUS : State police have issued a criminal summons against the Matinicus Island fire chief, accusing him of threatening a fellow lobsterman.