North Haven News

ROCKLAND : The Puffin Project Visitor Center is now displaying a complete skeleton of a harbor porpoise.

TREMONT : The classically styled and beautifully built launch built by Redfern Boat in Lamoine just seems to sell itself.

Maine was one of 20 states in the nation to get a failing grade from the Center for Public Integrity for not having stronger laws regarding financial disclosures by its lawmakers, prompting the state's top two lawmakers to say they will seek a review of those laws in January.

Hundreds of islanders gathered Monday morning at a 75-acre construction site in a misty spruce forest to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Fox Islands Wind project.

NORTH HAVEN : Two intoxicated female teenagers were arrested June 30 after they stole and crashed three cars, according to police.

VINALHAVEN, Maine a ' Mainea TMs first island wind-power project is being ushered in Monday with a groundbreaking ceremony.

ROCKLAND : The Island Institute announced award recipients for the first year of grant making through the Four-Season Island Agriculture Fund, first launched in May and made possible by a grant from the 1772 Foundation.

NORTH HAVEN : Reserve a Monday-Thursday night in July & August, and get the second night* for half price! Choose a room with period details and original painted wallpaper or a bright, renovated suite with water views and a private bath.

ROCKPORT : Maine has what is needed to be at the center of the emerging field of ocean-based energy.

North Haven, a rocky island in Maine's Penobscot Bay, is quintessentially New England.

Gov. John Baldacci ceremonially signed three bills on Wednesday to help Mainers count calories while dining out and to improve the state's monitoring of childhood obesity.

ROCKPORT : Approximately 400 scientists, developers, governmental regulators and other interested parties filled the Knox County Room at the Samoset Resort in Rockport Tuesday morning as Gov.

"The Toughcats lend a contemporary and interesting feel to Scruggs-style bluegrass, deep South ragtime, and singer-songwritery folk that shows a great feel for songwriting and fine musicianship." -Sam Pfeifle The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME Joe Nelson sings, plays his National guitar and dislikes 3-pronged forks.

ROCKLAND : Mainea s public universities will offer courses and degree programs in Mental Health and Human Services at University College at Rockland in the fall semester beginning August 31.

A major energy bill that calls for weatherization of homes and sets a course for energy independence in oil-addicted Maine won a unanimous vote of support in the House on Friday.

ROCKLAND : Friends and family were welcomed to the Mid-Coast School of Technology's Student Recognition Night by Director Beth Fisher on Thursday, May 28, 2009, at the Elks Lodge on Rankin Street in Rockland.

Maine took the first step Tuesday toward joining other states and cities that require restaurant chains to post calorie counts on their menus.

ROCKLAND : After discussing a half-dozen state-created rate increase proposals for two and a half hours May 22, the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board voted unanimously to adopt, with some amendments, an option developed by an island board of selectmen.

People have been touting the "Rockland Renaissance" since the 1990s, but recently this small midcoast city has done the impossible and actually become the sophisticated little city it advertised itself to be.

ROCKLAND : After discussing a half-dozen state-created rate increase proposals for two and a half hours Friday, May 22, the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board voted unanimously to adopt an option developed by an island select board.