BELGRADE — Russell Cahn of Augusta received the highest award a local scouting district can bestow upon a scouting volunteer on Sept, 25, when he was presented the District Award of Merit during the annual District Scouters’ Recognition Dinner held at Camp Bomazeen. Cahn serves as Scoutmaster of Troop 631 at St. Augustine Church, but […]
camden maine
Camden, town’s library celebrates ‘Olmsted 200’
The nationwide event celebrates of the work and philosophy of the Olmsted firm over the past 200 years of American park design.
Comfort and Joy concert with Down East Singers set
Down East Singers, directed by Anthony Antolini, will present a free concert Comfort and Joy, with guest fiddler Owen Kennedy at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, in the Camden Amphitheatre, on Atlantic Ave. in Camden. The event is co-sponsored by the Camden Public Library. The performance will be a tribute to people who have suffered […]
Talk to cover experiences of woman merchant mariner
The Camden Public Library is scheduled to host merchant mariner Megan Frey for a presentation of the challenges and insights from her career. The virtual talk is to begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23. Frey will narrate an online slideshow of photographs from ocean passages, such as sailing around Cape Horn on the […]
Camden library to host International Dot Day Sept. 15
The public is invited to celebrate International Dot Day from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15, at the Camden Public Library, 55 Main St. Children’s librarian Miss Amy will facilitate a collaborative community art project outdoors in the library’s Children’s Garden. All ages are welcome to participate, and art supplies will be provided […]
Camden library’s Friday Film Club to return Sept. 17
The group will discuss the films screened Sept. 2 in the Camden Amphitheatre at the free Maine Outdoor Film Festival.
New England Forest Rally returns to western Maine this weekend
Approximately 90 cars will navigate the treacherous corners of logging roads near Sunday River during the 30th annual auto race.
Camden Shakespeare Festival presents ‘Aquitania’
Camden Shakespeare Festival, in association with Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble and Camden Library, will present the comedy “Aquitania” outdoors in Camden beginning on Wednesday, July 21, and in Bath on Wednesday, Aug. 11. A librarian is transported to a strange country where she matches wits with a bowler-hatted villain. Magic cake and an ancient board game […]
‘Camden on Canvas’ plein air weekend planned
The Camden Public Library and artist Colin Page, owner of the Page Gallery on Bay View Street, are working together to design a unique event called “Camden on Canvas.” The event, to be held throughout town July 30 to Aug. 1, will benefit the library’s Campaign for the Future. Twenty notable New England landscape artists […]
Family ties pull Olympic gold medalist back to Maine
Anna Goodale, a mother of two young boys, left a demanding coaching job at Ohio State for an opportunity to run the community-based rowing club in her hometown of Camden.