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Bags program to benefit HYS in June
St. Philip’s Help Yourself Shelf (HYS), 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset, has been designated to receive the proceeds from the Boothbay Hannaford store’s Fight Hunger Bag program for the month of June. Each time a patron buys a Fight Hunger bag, $1 is given to HYS to help ease food insecurity. With ever increasing costs and more people seeking help from the Shelf, each and every dollar is quickly put to use in that effort.
The University of Maine, Augusta holds graduation at Maine State Prison
The University of Maine, Augusta, held its first post-pandemic graduation ceremony this week at the Maine State Prison in Warren. Twenty-one men were recognized with associate and bachelor's degrees in liberal studies. The graduates and their friends and family said the prison education program has changed their lives. It's not...
Tapestry Singers presents Songs of Maine
Tapestry Singers will perform concerts on Saturday, June 15 and Sunday, June 16 at 4 p.m. at the Damariscotta Baptist Church as a belated celebration of the Maine Bicentennial. The group had planned the concert for June 2020 and then the pandemic shut everything down. The concert will feature Castlebay, a local duo who specializes in collecting and performing the music of Maine. The program includes folk songs of the woods and the waterfront, Algonquin and Penobscot water songs, and arrangements of Shaker tunes. One hymn is by so-called "Yankee Tunesmith." Supply Belcher, who created sacred vocal music for local choirs. Also on the program are arrangements of French Canadian and Scottish folks songs. Three of the pieces on the program are based on the works of some of Maine’s most prolific poets (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Philip Booth).
WATCH: Explosion, fire destroys large manufacturing building in Chelsea
CHELSEA (WGME) - A large manufacturing building, as well as several empty sheds and other buildings were destroyed in a massive fire this afternoon in Chelsea. We spoke with one neighbor who caught on camera the moment a building at New England Rent to Own, a manufacturer of sheds and modular homes, exploded.
Electric school bus company responds to maintenance issues from Maine schools
WINTHROP (WGME) -- Lion Electric, the company that made electric school buses for several Maine school districts, has responded to CBS13's request for comment Wednesday. On Monday, school officials in Winthrop and Yarmouth said their Lion Electric buses suffered repeated maintenance issues, leading to concerns about safety. School officials in...
Eight fire departments respond to facility in Chelsea
CHELSEA, Maine (WABI) - At least eight fire departments responded to a large fire at a facility for mobile and manufactured homes in Chelsea on May 26, according to the Morning Sentinel. The New England rent to own storage facility, located on 65 River Road, was engulfed in flames at...
Maine’s Iconic ‘Trolley Cart’ Diner Earns Spot on ‘America’s Best Classic Diners’ List
Never pass up an opportunity to eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner in a vintage trolley cart. It's so fun. Have you ever been to the icon of Biddeford breakfast places, the Palace Diner? It's the cutest little diner you'll ever see, made up of just "one car length's worth of patrons", according to roadfood.com Yes, this makes it extremely hard to secure a spot on a Saturday or Sunday morning, but if you can manage the wait time, I can promise you it's worth it. I've only been a few times on the weekends, and all I remember is the portions being of wildly delicious quality, and enough to take home for lunch the next day.
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