Belfast

A University of Maine System representative said the proposal is unnecessary and that municipalities — including Belfast — have not submitted any bids for about a dozen properties sold by in the past two years.

The vote follows a recommendation from Harbor Master Katherine Given who raised concerns about safety and navigation connected with the eight larger passenger ships that docked last summer and the tour busses that transport the visitors to neighboring cities.

After years of opposition and legal challenges, Nordic Aquafarms says it will stop pursuing its land-based salmon farm project in Belfast.

The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Bangor, claims that the university system engaged in religious discrimination when it rescinded the church's bid to buy the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Calvary Chapel Belfast has also filed a formal appeal of the latest sale offer for the facility.

Waldo Hospital president Denise Needham said there simply aren't enough babies being born to sustain labor and delivery services.

The sale of the Hutchinson Center to a Belfast church has generated two appeals and at least 135 comments from members of the public, the University of Maine System said this week.

Degree-seeking students haven't taken classes at the Hutchinson Center since the pandemic, and university officials say enrollment has mostly shifted online. A group of Belfast residents, however, want to see the facility preserved and kept in local hands.

The Council voted to vacate an order it issued three years ago to take intertidal land by eminent domain to accommodate intake and discharge pipes for Nordic Aquafarms.

On Tuesday night the Belfast City Council will hold a public hearing to allow residents to weigh in on the city's move to take a parcel of intertidal land by eminent domain and nullify a conservation easement on that property.

A seasonal migration of inflatable ducks to Belfast Harbor is attracting attention from residents and tourists, because they are bright yellow and bigger than a Volkswagen bus.