MaineHealth Pen Bay and Waldo Hospitals Seek Vendors for September Farmers’ Markets

ROCKPORT & BELFAST — Local farmers and entrepreneurs are invited to showcase their products at farmers’ markets on the campuses of MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital (MHPBH) and MaineHealth Waldo Hospital (MHWH) later this month. The MHPBH event will be held Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the MHWH event will be held Sunday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Vendors can sell a variety of products including farm fresh eggs, baked goods, fresh seasonal produce, handcrafted soaps and lotions, handmade crafts, gifts and jewelry, among others. Booth space is limited.

To reserve your spot, click here. For more information, email Meghan.Benner@mainehealth.org.

Mikaela Coburn-Pierce, MD, Joins MaineHealth Palliative Care Rockport

Mikaela Coburn-Pierce, MD

ROCKPORT — MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital is pleased to welcome Mikaela Coburn-Pierce, MD, to its Palliative Care practice.

Dr. Coburn-Pierce joins PBH after completing her fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine – Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Madison, Wis.

She completed her residency at the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health in Minneapolis, Minn, and earned her medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. She also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Bachelor of Arts in French and Francophone Studies.

For more information, visit mainehealth.org or call MaineHealth Palliative Care Rockport at 207-301-3090.

Colin T. Waters, MD, PhD, Joins Emergency Medicine Department at MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital

Colin T. Waters, MD, PhD

ROCKPORT — MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital is pleased to welcome Colin T. Waters, MD, PhD, to its Emergency Medicine department.

Dr. Waters joins PBH after completing his residency at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, VT, where he was also chief resident in 2024.

He earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2022, when he was part of the Maine Track Program at MaineHealth Maine Medical Center Portland. He also holds a PhD in biological and biomedical sciences from Harvard Medical School and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

For more information, please visit mainehealth.org.

King Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Help the American Horticulture Industry Bloom

Legislation would plant the seeds to encourage government entities to exclusively buy flowers, cut greens from American growers

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME), alongside Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), has introduced bipartisan legislation to prioritize domestic horticulturists and farmers, and strengthen the American floral industry. The American Grown Act would require the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of State to only purchase flowers and cut greens grown in the United States.

“When the federal government spends

MaineHealth Pen Bay and Waldo Hospitals Announce New Cardiac Rehab Program

ROCKPORT & BELFAST — MaineHealth Pen Bay and Waldo Hospitals have expanded their cardiac rehabilitation services with a new prevention program designed for people at risk of developing heart disease. This program gives participants an opportunity to take a proactive approach to protecting their heart health.

While traditional cardiac rehab supports

Mary Wood, MD, Joins MaineHealth Pediatrics Rockport

Mary H Wood, MD

ROCKPORT — MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital is pleased to welcome Mary Wood, MD, to its Pediatrics Rockport practice.

Dr. Wood comes to PBH from Central Maine Healthcare, where she was a pediatrician for the past four years at Bridgton Pediatrics and a per-diem pediatric hospitalist. Prior to that, she was a pediatrician for three years at Rochester Regional Health’s Sodus Pediatrics.

Dr. Wood completed her residency at the

Free Day at Maine State Parks for Library Card Holders on September 20

Augusta, Maine - September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month, and thanks to a proclamation by Governor Janet Mills, it is also officially Maine Library Card Sign-Up Month. To mark the occasion, the Maine State Library and Maine State Parks are partnering to offer a special day of free admission to participating state parks.

On Saturday, September 20, simply show your Maine library card at the entrance of any participating Maine state park and enjoy a day outdoors at no cost.

"This collaboration is a perfect way to highlight the value of libraries and the exceptional

Chilton Furniture Invites Community to Celebrate End of Summer with Evening Hours Event

Chilton Furniture - Freeport, ME

The Dune Upholstered Bed with a wool boucle headboard from Chilton Furniture, paired with the Shaker Heirloom Side Table

Chilton Furniture Logo

An evening of beverages, mingling and end-of-sale savings

Whether you’re shopping for new pieces or stopping by for a drink among neighbors, we look forward to a relaxed and enjoyable evening.”

— Jen Levin, President of Chilton

FREEPORT, ME, UNITED STATES, September 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As Chilton Furniture’s Summer-End Sale nears its close, the company is hosting Evening Hours—a relaxed, in-store gathering to celebrate its local community and offer one last chance to shop the sale. The event takes place Thursday, September 18, 2025, with extended shopping hours from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Chilton’s Freeport, Maine location, 184 Lower Main Street.

Guests can enjoy seasonal drinks—both

ROCK ROW HEALTH CAMPUS IN WESTBROOK, MAINE, DESIGNED FOR HEALING

Rock Row Health Campus in Westbrook, Maine. Photo by Navadise Media.

Integrative health at the forefront of building design and patient experience

WESTBROOK, MAINE, UNITED STATES, September 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Earlier this year, Waterstone Properties Group unveiled the Rock Row Health Campus, the state’s integrative care campus featuring two new buildings—a 200,000 SF medical building and a 20,000 SF health services building, complete with attached 650 car complimentary parking garage.

The Rock Row Health Campus was designed for healing, offering patients access to many

St. George Opens Nation’s First Pre-K–8 Career and Technical Education/Makerspace Building

St. George, Maine - In 2020, a small but determined team of educators at St. George Municipal School Unit embarked on a bold innovation journey—one that culminated in a major milestone over the summer. Guided by district leadership and a committee of teachers, families, school board members, and business owners, the team grounded its vision of a new, innovative facility in the community’s past, present, and future.

St. George Municipal School Unit was one of the first recipients of the Maine Department of Education’s (DOE) Rethinking Responsive Education Ventures (RREV) grant, a $16.9 million federal grant awarded to Maine in 2020. The state was one of only 11 to receive the funding, with more than $10 million eventually distributed to 42 school districts. St. George received $350,000 to kick-start its building design process, curriculum development, and capital campaign.

St. George Municipal School Unit’s ambitious goal was to use the RREV grant to help

UMF Visiting Writers Series presents nonfiction writer Matthew J.C. Clark, Sept. 18

FARMINGTON, ME  (September 4, 2025)—The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series is excited to present nonfiction writer Matthew J.C. Clark as the popular program’s first reader of the 2025/26 season. Clark will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, September 18, 2025, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing with the author.

Matthew J.C. Clark

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Clark’s debut personal essay collection, “Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and

Michael Cyr and Cyrus Evans Named 2025 Southern Maine Men’s Cross Country Captains

GORHAM, Maine – Senior Michael Cyr (Caribou, Maine) and junior Cyrus Evans (Farmington, Maine/Mt. Blue) have been named team captains for the 2025 University of Southern Maine Huskies' men's cross country season.
 
A Health Sciences major, Cyr placed 15th at the last season's Little East Conference Championships with a personal-best 8k time of 26:44.7. The placement was one spot away from All-LEC honors for a runner who has finished in the top 25 in each of his three seasons. He placed 21st as a freshman in 2022 to earn the LEC Rookie of the Year award

Gwen Catalano and AnnMarie Limberger Named 2025 Southern Maine Women’s Cross Country Captains

GORHAM, Maine – Junior Gwen Catalano (Buxton, Maine/Bonny Eagle) and senior AnnMarie Limberger (Vassalboro, Maine/Waterville) have been named captains for the 2025 University of Southern Maine Huskies' women's cross country season.
 
A Second Team All-Little East Conference performer in 2024, Catalano had a stellar debut season with the Huskies last year and was the top finisher for the team at every meet. She finished eighth at the Little East Conference Championships with a time of 19:22.1 in the 5k and ended the season by running a personal-best 6k time of 23:47.7 to place 50th at the

Southern Maine Wins Season Openers Over UMaine Augusta 6-1

 By USM Riley Driscoll, Athletic Media Associate

GORHAM, Maine – The University of Southern Maine Huskies women's team started off the 2025 season with a 6-1 against the University of Maine at Augusta Moose on Thursday evening in Gorham. The Huskies took two of the three doubles matches with the No. 1 pairing of freshman Payton Thibodeau (Gorham, Maine) and sophomore Alyssa Conley (Windham, Maine) winning 6-2, and the No. 2 pairing of fifth-year senior Hanni Johnson (Livermore, Maine/Spruce Mountain) and freshman Willa Wilson (Westford, Vt./Essex) winning 6-0.
 
Thibodeau, Conley, Johnson and Wilson each also won their singles match for each of their

Golden leads effort to extend ACA marketplace tax credits

Action needed to prevent premium price spikes on tens of thousands of Mainers

WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) is leading a bipartisan effort to protect Maine families, seniors and small business owners from massive health care premium price spikes by extending tax credits that help individuals afford health insurance plans on the state’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace, CoverME.go. “Letting the ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credits expire would raise costs on Maine families. That’s simply not an option,” Golden said. “Mainers who buy private insurance on the ACA marketplace are staring down an average $180 monthly premium increase in January if Congress doesn’t extend these credits, with rural Mainers aged 60-64 facing the steepest increase. Many are likely to lose coverage in the face of this price spike.”

Golden is an original cosponsor of the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Ac,

Senator Collins Announces More Than $14 Million for Airport Improvements Across Maine

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that multiple Maine airports will receive a total of $14,262,173 to support important infrastructure improvements. The funding comes from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Fiscal Year 2025 Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) program and the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), made possible by the Infrastructure Investment and Job Act (IIJA). Senator Collins was one of 10 senators who negotiated the IIJA, which provided $15 billion for airport improvements nationwide.

“Maine’s airports are vital pieces of our state’s transportation network that promote

Chancellor Malloy announces ‘transformational’ Maine Law, UMF presidents will lead through 2028

 

Maine Law President/Dean Leigh Saufley

Maine Law President/Dean Leigh Saufley and UMF President Joseph McDonnell had previously announced their intentions to retire as of June 30, 2026, but have agreed to extend their appointments to lead their respective institutions’ resurgence and progress toward fiscal stability

PORTLAND and FARMINGTON, Maine — The presidents of the University of Maine School of Law and the University of Maine at Farmington will postpone their planned retirements until 2028 so they can continue to lead the resurgence of these essential institutions for the state. 

Maine Law President/Dean Leigh Saufley and UMF President

King Bill Signed into Law, Veteran Customer Service Office Becomes Permanent

The bipartisan law codifies the Veterans Experience Office, making it a permanent office in the Department of Veterans’ Affairs

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee (SVAC), today applauded the signing into law of his bipartisan Improving Veteran Experience Act by President Donald Trump. Under the new law, the Veterans Experience Office (VEO) will become a permanent part of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA), ensuring it can continue to provide consistent and quality care for the veteran community. Established in 2015 the VEO collects veterans’ feedback through surveys and uses that data to continuously improve the VA’s website and other resources used by veterans interacting with the VA. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) was an original cosponsor of the legislation.

“Veterans across Maine and our nation consistently and courageously answer the call of duty

MaineHealth Pen Bay Hospital, Maine Cancer Foundation bring free tobacco cessation resources to Knox and Waldo counties

ROCKPORT — MaineHealth Pharmacy Retail Pen Bay Hospital has been awarded grant funding from the Maine Cancer Foundation to increase community access to tobacco cessation medications and support. The grant provides an opportunity to reduce barriers to accessing tobacco cessation support while leveraging the unique accessibility of pharmacists as trusted, frontline providers.

Patients and community members 18 years and older can request a two-week supply of

MaineHealth Stephens Hospital to Invest in Facility Expansion & Renovations

NORWAY, Maine – MaineHealth Stephens Hospital today announced plans for a significant investment in its facilities, with a renovation and expansion project set to begin later this year. The project, approved by MaineHealth, underscores the hospital’s ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care for the community.

This comprehensive plan will enhance several critical areas of the hospital, including the

MaineHealth Brings Brunswick Behavioral Health Services Under One Convenient Roof

BRUNSWICK, Maine – Beginning September 15, several MaineHealth Behavioral Health (MHBH) programs currently situated at 66 Baribeau Drive in Brunswick will relocate to the newly renovated behavioral health center on the MaineHealth Parkview Campus at 329 Maine Street in Brunswick. This move is the final step in consolidating MHBH services in the Brunswick area under one roof, making care more convenient and coordinated for patients. Earlier this year, MHBH services at 11 Medical Center Drive transitioned to the MaineHealth Parkview Campus.

With the Baribeau Drive move, the following programs will relocate to the MaineHealth

NIH funds MaineHealth research project aimed at saving newborn lives

The four-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, with funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, supports further investigation of how mixed-reality simulation technology can improve neonatal resuscitation training in rural communities.

PORTLAND, Maine – The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities has awarded MaineHealth a four-year, $2.8 million grant to further develop technology designed to improve neonatal resuscitation skills among rural clinicians.

Rural delivery teams often lack regular opportunities to practice critical resuscitation skills due to low birth volumes in their communities and the high cost of traditional simulation training. As a result, newborns born at rural hospitals who require resuscitation are at four times the risk of birth asphyxia, a preventable cause of death and severe brain damage in