FARMINGTON — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Franklin County is offering an apple pruning workshop from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, May 20 at the Cooperative Extension office at 138 Pleasant St. The class will be held rain or shine.
May 2013
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Grief support groupto begin on May 23
MADISON — Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County will offer a General Grief Support Group from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at the Baptist Church, Maple Street.
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Sebasticook ValleyHealth earns award
PITTSFIELD — Sebasticook Valley Health recently received a gold level award for meeting all the standards around creating a tobacco-free environment and supporting tobacco-free lifestyles by the Maine Tobacco Free Hospital Network. Thirty-one Maine hospitals were also honored during the event, which was held at the Maine Hospital Association in March.
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Annual Downtown Celebration Thursday
WATERVILLE — Waterville Main Street ninth annual Downtown Celebration is scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday on the Concourse.
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Franklin Savings Bank kicks off campaign for Octagon House
FARMINGTON — Franklin Savings Bank’s Community Development Foundation has donated $25,000 to the Farmington Historical Society to launch its Octagon House capital campaign.
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Center’s Walk for Lifeplanned for May 18
WATERVILLE — First Choice Pregnancy Center’s peaceful two-mile Walk for Life is planned for Saturday, May 18 at Head of Falls on Front Street.
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Police put their lives on the line every day
Patrick Eisenhart (letter, “Civilians, not law officers, found Boston bombers,” May 2) seemed harsh on law enforcement.
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PUBLIC HEARING
The Legislature’s Taxation Committee will take public testimony on L.D. 1496, the tax reform bill, at 10:30 a.m. today in room 127 of the State House.
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M.D. HARMON: Here we go again: Virtual replay of 2010’s attempt at ‘tax reform’
Naively, some of us thought we had solved the issue of peddling “tax reform” as a way to conceal higher taxes in 2010, when a Democratic Legislature tried to raise taxes on everything we bought while offering only a nominal income tax reduction in return.
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Don’t cut programs Maine seniors rely upon
It is the job of our legislators to protect Maine’s most vulnerable populations — older adults and challenged individuals. I am fully aware that this is a tough economy, but it is even tougher when one is frail, elderly, alone and in pain.