The Waterville college is working to expand its programming on Allen and Benner islands, which have hosted resident student fellows and other visitors since Colby purchased them last year.
Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Megan Gray covers the outdoors and tourism at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails, arts and culture. Outside of work, you can find her kayaking on the ocean and exploring Maine's many coastal islands with her husband.
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A new sculpture winds through College of the Atlantic
The installation by British artist Andy Goldsworthy comprises 250 curbstones that form a 1,000-foot path from the entrance of the Bar Harbor campus to Frenchman Bay.
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Auction will include 1941 Plymouth owned by Margaret Chase Smith
The late U.S. senator’s car will be auctioned Sunday with a starting bid of $7,500, but Thomaston Place Auction Galleries estimates it will sell for at least twice that amount.
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Museum of Beadwork aims to elevate niche art form
The venue opened this month next to Caravan Beads on Forest Avenue in Portland.
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Small group of neo-Nazis demonstrates in Augusta
The participants did not appear to carry weapons, and the demonstration did not prompt confrontations or arrests, authorities said.
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In new exhibition at Colby, Pueblo people tell their own story
Native art gives a broader picture of what the Taos Society of Artists wanted to depict.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Excerpts from ‘Rainbow Parenting: Your Guide to Raising Queer Kids and Their Allies’
Lessons for parents and kids at different ages.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
With this wig designer backstage, there will no bad hair days on the set of ‘9 to 5 The Musical’
Kevin S. Foster II designed 40 wigs for the workplace musical comedy, opening this week at Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick.
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As Fourth comes and goes, Mainers still ‘waiting for summer’
After a dreary June, residents and visitors alike are pining for more baseball, barbecue and boogie boarding.
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These couples from New York City were once at the core of Monhegan’s art colony
The Monhegan Museum of Art and History is showing the works of eight late artists who started coming to the island in the middle of last century and influenced each other over the following decades.