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First Selectman Declares Friday, May 17, 2024, as Horizons at Brunswick School Awareness and Giving Day
First Selectman Fred Camillo has officially declared Friday, May 17, 2024, as Horizons at Brunswick School Awareness and Giving Day, recognizing the significant impact of Horizons at Brunswick in the community. Entering its 11th year, Horizons at Brunswick addresses a wide range of needs for under-resourced boys from Greenwich Public...
Residents back $55 million budget for coming school year
Attorney John Loyd Jr. moderates the annual Maine School Administrative District 75 budget meeting on Thursday, May 16, at Mt. Ararat Middle School’s Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham. A sparse crowd of 100 voters backed the district’s proposed $55 million budget for the coming school year. (J. Craig Anderson photo)
11 rescue dogs from Afghanistan on their way to Maine
BRUNSWICK (WGME) -- Right now, the clock is ticking on a mission to find homes in America for rescue dogs and cats in Afghanistan. Four-hundred of the rescue dogs and cats are now being cared for in Kabul, Afghanistan. An organization, founded by an American, is planning to fly more than 300 rescue dogs and cats to the U.S. for adoption.
Maine State Music Theatre presents South Pacific in season opener
The Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick kicks off the 2024 season in June with Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific. The musical is a classic show that explores themes of love, prejudice, and cultural conflict during World War II in the South Pacific Islands. South Pacific runs June 5...
Local clubwomen attend GFWC Maine Spring Convention
FREEPORT — Five women from the GFWC Miosac Club in Dover-Foxcroft attended the General Federation of Women’s Clubs Maine Spring Convention at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport May 9-10. Attending were members Suzanne Raymond, who is GFWC Miosac Club treasurer, GFWC Maine president-elect, and serves on the GFWC New England Region Resolutions Committee. Anne Cress is the GFWC Maine corresponding secretary, acting state necrologist and GFWC Maine interim parliamentary advisor. Both women are past GFWC Miosac Club presidents and past GFWC Maine state presidents.
Board signs warrant for June 11 primary vote and for RSU 1 budget
Woolwich selectmen signed the warrant for the June 11 primary election that will include consideration of the 2024-25 Regional School Unit 1 budget. A final district-wide meeting for ratification of the proposed $43.83 million budget is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 28 at Morse High School. Woolwich’s proposed share of the budget is $5,028,744, a 6.74% increase from last year.
Dozens of Bates College students protest outside Rep. Golden’s home over war in Gaza
LEWISTON, Maine (WMTW) - A group of Bates College students demonstrated against the war in Gaza outside of Rep. Jared Golden’s house over the weekend. About 80 students marched and chanted, “No more money for Israel’s crimes,” ahead of a potential invasion of Rafah. They accused...
Yereance falls in state singles
Griffin Yereance, sophomore at Boothbay Region High School, lost in the boys’ Round of 52 state singles tournament held at Bates College in Lewiston Friday, May 17. Yereance, who plays second singles for BRHS, fell to Liam O’Dwyer, Camden’s third singles player, 1-6, 5-7.
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