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Dramatic rise continues for Belfast softball

Belfast, Maine · Belfast

Dramatic rise continues for Belfast softball

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The Belfast Area High School softball team has continued its dramatic rise this season. After posting their first winning season since 2011 last year, Kevin Gray’s Lions have gone from a 12-4 team to a 15-1 club this spring entering the Class B North playoffs. Gray took over as the head coach in 2023 and guided the Lions to an 8-8 campaign after the previous two teams had gone a combined 3-29. Last year’s 12 wins were the most in a season for Be…Read Article

Freedom Select Board Candidates Discuss Issues

Freedom · Freedom

Freedom Select Board Candidates Discuss Issues

The RSU 3 budget is also on the June 10 ballot.Read Article

Shopkeepers Nix Yellow Loam for Roads; Beware of Sharpers Selling Watches; A Well-Seasoned Pork Barrel

Belfast, Maine · Belfast

Shopkeepers Nix Yellow Loam for Roads; Beware of Sharpers Selling Watches; A Well-Seasoned Pork Barrel

Compiled from Republican Journal archival holdings by Sharon Pietryka, Reference & Special Collections Librarian at the Belfast Free Library.Read Article

Searsmont Loves a Parade

The library board has awarded two $1,000 H. Joyce Withee family scholarships this year.Searsmont · Searsmont Read Article

Cheeky Food Truck Park opens at former Wentworth Event Center site, holds grand opening

Cheeky Food Truck Park will host its Grand Opening Party on Wednesday, June 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at 139 Searsport Avenue, in Belfast, Maine. This free community event will feature eats from local food trucks, a ribbon-cutting with the Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce, and festive fun, according to a news release.Belfast, Maine · Belfast Read Article

Cumberland & Knox runs first revenue train on Maine’s Rockland Branch

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The first Cumberland & Knox train on the Rockland Branch passes the Bath Iron Works on May 31, 2025. Michael St. Louis BRUNSWICK, Maine — New short line Cumberland & Knox made its debut last weekend, running its first train over a 56-mile, state-owned former Maine Central branch that hadn’t seen any freight action at all in eight months. The move saw locomotive LTEX 1555, an ex-Canadian Pacific GP9u, pick up 12 covered hoppers from the CSX inte…Knox · Knox Read Article

Stephen Wallace Underwood, notice

BELFAST — Stephen Wallace Underwood, 84 years, of Belfast, Maine, passed away May 30, 2025.A memorial mass will be celebrated on Sunday, June 8, at 2 p.m., at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 95 Court St., Belfast Maine. Memories and condolences may be shared with his wife, Nancy Perkins, and their families on his tribute wall.Belfast, Maine · Belfast Read Article

David B. Sutherland, Sr., service

BELAST — The committal service for David B. Sutherland, Sr., 82, who died on December 8, 2024, will be held Saturday, June 7, 2025, at 2 p.m., at the Kinney Cemetery in Brooks. Arrangements are with the Long Funeral Home, 9 Mountain Street, Camden.Brooks · Brooks See the Story

Hoping to Make a Splash

As the summer months arrive, local swim teams are gearing up for another summer of learning and healthy competition.Belfast, Maine · Belfast See the Story

'Free the River,’ Okay, Drain the Lake!

' ... I’d sit in Harbor Park transfixed by the water curling over the dam.'Belfast, Maine · Belfast Read Article

Viking Track Athletes Complete Regular Season, Compete at PVC Championship Meet

SEARSPORT — Gray skies and soggy spring weather have not deterred a small group of track and field athletes from Searsport District High School from running, jumping, throwing and vaulting their way through the 2025 spring season.Track and Field · Searsport Read Article