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Malinowski solo show: May 30 - June 19
River Arts is pleased to announce Mark Malinowski’s solo show “Maine Moments” opening in the River Room Thursday, May 30 through Wednesday, June 19. The show features Malinowski’s latest works celebrating Maine’s special places and the beauty, light, color and the wonder of living here. An opening reception with wine and a charcuterie board will take place on Saturday, June 1 from 2 to 4 p.m.
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.
No time to waste in Rockport
While I appreciate the cheeky humor of the anti-question 3 signs, I don’t appreciate the spread of misinformation. The ballot question asks for approval for bonds of $33 million. I assume the exaggerated figure of $52 million includes interest over the 30-year term of the bonds. However, when taking out a car loan or a mortgage, the amount borrowed (not the amount ultimately paid back) is the correct way of expressing the loan amount. We can disagree about whether to move forward with the proposal, but let’s discuss the matter fairly and stick to the facts.
Spring into Summer Dance Party with The Sugar Snaps at Watts Hall Community Arts
THOMASTON — Get ready to welcome the season with an unforgettable evening of music and dancing at the Spring into Summer Dance Party featuring The Sugar Snaps! This exciting event […]
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...
Mother who said school officials hid her teen's gender expression appeals judge's dismissal of case
A Maine woman is appealing the dismissal of her lawsuit that accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression by providing a chest binder and using a new name and pronouns, without consulting her.Amber Lavigne filed her notice of appeal to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, weeks after a federal judge in Maine ruled she failed to establish legal claims for which the school district could be held liable.The lawsuit filed last year contended the mother had a “right to control and direct the care, custody, education, upbringing and healthcare decisions of her children,”...
Wiscasset officer’s kindness
The Boothbay Region High School boys tennis team would like to thank Wiscasset police officer Nathan Willhoite. Officer Willhoite assisted us one recent evening when we were returning from a match at Carrabec High School. Our bus ran out of gas several miles before the Wiscasset town office on Route 27. Officer Willlhoite went to his own residence to retrieve a five-gallon can of gas, which he brought back and emptied into our fuel tank.
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.
Energy park would help climate, tax base
RePower Wiscasset is a citizen group proposing that an Energy Park be developed on Wiscasset-owned property located off Old Ferry Road. Such a Park would substantially increase Wiscasset’s tax base while utilizing extremely valuable existing electrical infrastructure. The Energy Park would house clean electricity generators and associated businesses that could profit from the availability of clean electricity. This development would generate tax income and new employment opportunities, as well as allowing Wiscasset to play a meaningful role in the energy transition that Maine and the nation are currently pursuing.
Protect Camden property rights, Vote No on Articles 5, 6, and 7
The Camden Planning Board has been misinformed, misguided and simply missed the point as it relates to affordable housing and other complex housing issues facing our community. Instead of creatively addressing this issue by forming a specialized work group or other mechanism to address affordable housing issues, they’ve simply sought...
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.
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).
Warehouse and multiple sheds destroyed in fire at Chelsea business
CHELSEA -- Firefighters from nine communities spent hours battling flames at a business in Chelsea Sunday afternoon. The blaze destroyed a warehouse and multiple pre-built sheds. Footage shot by a Chelsea Resident Kara Taylor captures the shocking moment an apparent explosion went off as crews raced to the scene. "I...
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