CARRABASSETT VALLEY — This year’s 23rd annual Sugarloaf Charity Summit is scheduled to kick off with Climb for a Cure, a moonlit climb, on Thursday, Dec. 29, at 5092 Sugarloaf Access Road. For a suggested donation of $20, $5 for those 12 and younger, participants snowshoe or skin up one mile to Bullwinkle’s restaurant before […]
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Finding Our Voices receives $8K grant for campaign
Finding Our Voices has received an $8,000 grant from Camden National Bank for its Youth Healthy-Relationship campaign, bringing the bank’s total funding of the grassroots, survivor-powered nonprofit in the three years of its existence to $38,000. This grant aims to expand the group’s groundbreaking work educating young people across Maine on what is healthy and […]
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Gardiner Cubmaster receives Wood Badge beads, neckerchief
Scott St. Amand, Cubmaster of Pack 672 in Gardiner, completed all requirements for the extensive Wood Badge Training program and received his Wood Badge Beads and neckerchief on Nov. 29 at the Christ Episcopal Church in Gardiner. St. Amand also serves as the Kennbec Valley District co-chair for training, along with Scott Fails of Farmington. […]
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Vermont-based center offering milk storage, handling grant
This grant opportunity closes Thursday, Feb. 9.
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Wiscasset-based foundation offers environmental leaders scholarships
WISCASSET — Chewonki Foundation is offering two $15,000 Maine Youth Environmental Leaders Scholarships to support Maine students who would like to join Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki in 2023-24 for the fall or spring of their junior year in high school. The semester-long academically rigorous residential program is based in Wiscasset. Learning takes place in […]
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State wildlife department seeks help with bird sightings
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife seeks citizens’ help with bird sightings. Any bird observed in Maine through Wednesday, March 15, will help the department complete the five-year Maine Bird Atlas project. According to a news release from the Augusta-based department, 191 birds call Maine home in the winter. Those who see a […]
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Union Fair trustees seek entries for 2023 poster
The Trustees of the Union Fair are looking for artists to submit artwork for the 2023 fair poster. The deadline for entries is Friday, Feb. 10. The winning poster will be used in posters, schedule brochures and digital media. The winner also will get a $750 cash prize. Full contest rules and an entry form […]
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Madison selectmen, town manager look to move past concerns over staffing
Selectmen have questioned Town Manager Tim Curtis about the departure of the road commissioner and others, and one selectman claimed Curtis had ‘secretly’ hired a cousin for a municipal post, which Curtis denied.
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Augusta church to offer free curbside Christmas dinner
AUGUSTA — A free curbside Christmas dinner is scheduled to be provided at South Parish Congregational Church, 9 Church St., from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 25. All are welcome to a full turkey dinner. Those unable to drive to the church, who would like a turkey dinner delivered to the greater Augusta […]
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Waterville plans downtown winter parking ban
WATERVILLE — The Concourse and downtown must be kept clear of parking from midnight to 6 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, to allow for snow cleanup by the city’s Public Works Department. Overnight parking is permitted at the Head of Falls Municipal Parking Lot, 51 Front St. For more information, call 207-680-4744. Check out other […]