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9.20.23 Public Services is actively picking up storm debris at this time. They are starting in the south end and working north.
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On July 1, 2022 Transfer Station permits are increasing. $145.00 for a Resident Permit and $20.00 for a Second Sticker.
AS OF MAY 1ST, 2023 CITY HALL HOURS WILL CHANGE TO 7:30 AM TO 5:00 PM MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, AND 7:30 AM TO NOON ON FRIDAY.
FALL LEAF AND BRUSH PICK-UP 2023 The Public Services Department will be collecting garden debris/brush and leaves beginning the week of November 6, 2023. The crew will be making just one trip through the City to pick up garden debris/brush, so please have it placed for pick up by 7 AM on Nov. 6, 2023. Pick-up times will be 7 AM to 3 PM on weekdays. GARDEN DEBRIS/BRUSH will be taken if PLACED SEPARATELY from leaves along the edge of the sidewalk/street. PLEASE DO NOT BLOCK THE STREET OR SIDEWALK LEAVES Should be raked into piles along the edge of the sidewalk/street and should be covered with a tarp or weighted material. If you would rather bring your brush and leaves to the transfer station there is no charge for the month of November. Keeping the leaf piles separate from the debris/brush piles helps us to properly recycle these items and makes the process more efficient. Please remember not to block any sidewalks or roadways. If you have any questions, please call Rockland Public Services at 207-594-0320.

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  • “The Pine Tree State on the National Airwaves” – A Maine History Talk by Michael Socolow

    Michael Socolow

    Michael Socolow’s talk, “The Pine Tree State on the National Airwaves,” details how the national, local, and regional radio businesses operated in Maine from 1920 to 1940. Socolow will delve into the dynamic by which certain shows and personalities from Maine – such as Rudy Vallee and Phillips Lord, who had top-rated NBC radio shows – became nationalized. He will also explore how some popular national radio shows became localized, such as when Jack Benny visited Dover-Foxcroft during World War II.

    Michael J. Socolow is a media historian whose research centers upon America’s original radio networks in the 1920s and 1930s. His scholarship on media history has appeared in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Technology & Culture, and other scholarly journals. He is the author of Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016). He is also a former broadcast journalist who has worked as an Assignment Editor for the Cable News Network. He has written pieces on media regulation and media history for The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, Politico, Columbia Journalism Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Chronicle Review, and other outlets. He is Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine. In July, 2020, Dr. Socolow was named Director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine.

    This event will take place in the library’s Community Room, with limited seating. For more information or for Zoom links to watch from home, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov.

    Date

    May 26 2022
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    Time

    6:30 pm

    Location

    Rockland Public Library - Community Room
    80 Union St, Rockland, ME 04841, USA

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