Waldo County News

Northport's Martha Leavitt was presented with the Silver Beaver Award, which is the highest National Boy Scout Council award the Katahdin Area Council can present to a scouting volunteer.

BELFAST : In December 2008 the Waldo County Commissioners launched a program to help consumers cope with the high price of prescription drugs.

The Searsport music teacher charged with child molestation has resigned his position.

NORTHPORT : An accident at the Route 1 and Saturday Cove Road intersection early on the evening of June 26 sent three people to the hospital with a variety of injuries.

BELFAST : A Northport man is facing his third operating under the influence charge after police arrested him early Monday morning.

State Police, Waldo County sheriffs deputies, and a hazmat crew from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection have responded to an accident in Knox involving a car and a tanker truck.

LIBERTY : The public is invited to visit the Donald S. Walker Health Center, 43 West Main St., Liberty, and meet the staff tonight, June 23, from 4 to 6. The new provider at the health center is Christopher Walker, N.P., of Searsmont, who previously worked with several area ediatricians.

STOCKTON SPRINGS : A coastal landslide threatening two unoccupied camps, and possibly a third, took place Thursday night along the shore at Fort Point Cove, according to Maine Geological Survey officials.

SEARSPORT : Police are seeking the public's help in learning the identity of a man believed to have been involved in an early morning break-in at Angler's Restaurant June 25.

CAMDEN : The Community Schoola s Passages Program, a home-based high school program for teen parents in Knox, Waldo and Washington counties, will be presented with a $25,000 grant from Barbara Bush for its Family Connections: Phase Two project at a ceremony in Biddeford on June 22.

BELFAST : Tom Ventura, a local midcoast fixture in the midcoast area for the last two decades, has returned to teaching music after a short sabbatical.

BELFAST, Maine a ' Waldo County General Hospital will activate its new medical helicopter pad when LifeFlight makes its first official landing there at 9:15 a.m. Friday, June 26.

BELFAST : A Hartland man has been charged in connection with an ongoing police investigation into an apparent embezzlement that was reported to the Waldo County Sheriff's Department last week.

BELFAST : Don't be alarmed if you see a helicopter landing somewhere it's never landed before in Belfast Friday morning.

ISLESBORO : Police confirmed that the pilot, and reported lone occupant, was not injured following a small plane crash that was reported on Islesboro just before noon Monday.

A small plane has crashed on the island of Islesboro Monday morning, but Waldo County dispatchers report the one man on board was not injured.

Burnham Neil L. Flood and Hilda M. Flood to Michael S. Flood. Dustin M. Turner to Dustin Marie Turner and Clayton Aric Turner.

BELFAST : Russell Lawn, 22, will finish his sentence at the Waldo County Jail next week, and he plans to make that his final stay behind bars.

BELFAST : Congratulations are in order! Village Soup's "Best of the Best, 2009" for Waldo County is out and Indigo Gallery's Charles Laurier Dufour has placed Second in the Best Artist category and Third in the Best Photographer category.

NORTHPORT : Donald and Renee Kitchen of Northport announce the birth of their daughter, Quinlan Rose Kitchen, at 4:31 p.m. Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Waldo County General Hospital, Belfast.