ALBION – Carol Marie Rundlett (nee Leck), 84, passed away on Sept. 9, 2022 at Maine General Hospital in Augusta, Maine. …
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Fiona threatens to become Category 4 storm headed to Bermuda
Hurricane Fiona is blamed for causing at least four direct deaths in its march through the Caribbean.
Fairfield auxiliary arts and crafts fair tables available for Oct. 1 event
Tables are available for the Fairfield Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 6924 Auxiliary’s annual arts and crafts fair. The event is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the 246 Main St. post. The sale will include baked goods, hot dogs and French fries. Table rentals cost $10 each. To reserve […]
Waterville cemetery crew to start fall cleanup in October
WATERVILLE — St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, 78 Grove St., reminds all burial right holders that during the first week of October the cemetery crew will start the annual fall cleanup for the coming winter season. Flowers real and artificial, vases and baskets will be gathered and disposed of. Burial right holders are advised to remove […]
Union library to host historian, historical interpreter Sept. 28
In June, six people set out to row a replica 17th century shallop, the Jane Stevens, from Georgetown to Fort William Henry in Pemaquid. They traveled across the mouth of the Sagadahoc and out of Boothbay Harbor, with stops at different islands along the way, according to a news release from Vose library. Historian and […]
Food for Thought program to host loon project coordinator
Food for Thought, offered by the University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn College, is set to be back on Zoom at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29. Tracy Hart, the coordinator of the Maine Loon Restoration Project at Maine Audubon, will be the guest speaker. The presentation aims to answer a variety of questions, according to a […]
Rangeley theater to host storytelling workshop Sept. 24
RANGELEY — A storytelling workshop is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Rangeley Friends of the Arts Lakeside Theater, 2493 Main St. Participants should come to the workshop with some ideas for their own story; something that really happened. Because it is a true story, there are no lines that […]
Winthrop library to host talk by paranormal investigator Sept. 28
WINTHROP — Paranormal investigator Nomar Slevik plans to give a talk at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the Bailey Library at 39 Bowdoin St. The talk will focus on supposed extraterrestrial sightings and abductions in what are known as “UFO hotspots” around New England. Slevik is a researcher, writer and podcaster whose work […]
Massachusetts panel explores changes to state seal, motto
Critics have decried the current ones as racially insensitive to the state’s Indigenous communities.
Redesign of Castonguay Square in Waterville will not happen as planned
Funding did not work as intended for the redesign, but a Colby College official said Tuesday that ideas from the original plan could be used to move forward with another design in the future.