The WinterKids Winter Games, a four-week-long outdoor program scheduled to run from Jan. 9 to Feb. 3 is set to feature a variety of activities that get students moving and learning outside. This year’s theme, “My Wild Winter,” encourages students to get wild with a variety of nature-based learning and movement opportunities outdoors, according a […]
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Waterville Area Habitat for Humanity sets fall fundraiser for Oct. 15
Waterville Area Habitat for Humanity plans to hold its fall fundraiser, Murder at The Juice Joint, at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. The event will be held at the Waterville Elks Lodge, 76 Industrial St. in Waterville. With the passing of prohibition and organized crime on the rise, The Juice Joint, a swanky speakeasy run […]
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Whitefield library to host fall festival Oct. 15
Whitefield Library plans to hold its annual fall festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at 1 Arlington Lane in Whitefield. This year will feature music, children’s games, pumpkin painting, baked goods, chili, popcorn, cider and raffle items. As always, used books will be on sale in the library. As part of […]
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Cattlemen’s college to be offered Oct. 15 in Old Town
For the fifth year, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Beef Producers Association plan to host the Maine Cattlemen’s College. The event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the J. F. Witter Teaching & Research Center, 160 University Farm Road in Old Town. This year’s event will focus on forage and […]
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Maine hunger dialogue, climate action summit set for Oct. 21, 22 in Augusta
AUGUSTA — University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Campus Compact plan to hold a two-day 2022 Maine Hunger Dialogue and Climate Action Summit starting at 9:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21 and 22, at the University of Maine at Augusta, Randall Student Center, 70 University Drive. The summit, Safeguarding Food Systems from a […]
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UMaine Farmington to honor professor emeritus of English Oct. 14
The University of Maine at Farmington English Program plans to honor longtime and recently retired UMF Professor Emeritus of English Daniel P. Gunn with a symposium to commemorate his legacy of educational excellence. The celebration will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, in the UMF Emery Community Arts Center on […]
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Mid-Maine chamber plans gubernatorial forum Oct. 11
WATERVILLE — The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce plans to host a gubernatorial forum with candidates Sam Hunkler and Paul LePage at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Ayotte Auditorium, Thomas College on West River Road. This will be a moderated discussion with questions geared toward a better understanding of the candidates’ stances. Coffee and a […]
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Skowhegan center continues Wabanaki Voices Speaker series Oct. 13
The Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center’s next speaker in its Wabanaki Voices Speaker series is scheduled to be Chris Sockalexis, a member of the Penobscot Nation. The talk will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in Tewksbury Hall, located on Western Avenue in Skowhegan. Sockalexis will present Penobscot culture, history and […]
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Winthrop center to host Augusta museum co-founder Oct. 13
Genie Gannett, co-founder of the First Amendment Museum in Augusta, is scheduled to speak at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Winthrop History and Heritage Center, 107 Main St. She will tell the story about how the Gannett family lived their First Amendment freedoms across four generations. Inspired by this history, she will talk […]
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UMaine Farmington to host alumnus, award-winning poet Oct. 13
The University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writers Series is scheduled to present award-winning poet and UMF alumnus Jacques Rancourt as the program’s second reader of the season. Rancourt will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center, South Street. The reading is free […]