Throughout the summer, the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust in Bath is offering storybook trails across the region. These temporary exhibits at preserves will showcase nature-themed stories and activities for elementary-aged children and their chaperoning adults. Kids and families can walk a trail, explore a preserve, and read a children’s book one page at a time. […]
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Augusta society to present ‘Siege at the State House’ July 20
The Kennebec Historical Society’s July presentation, “Siege at the State House: The 1879 Coup that Nearly Plunged Maine into Civil War,” is scheduled to be presented by historian Mac Smith at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at the Maine State Library’s temporary location, 242 State St. in Augusta. This is the former location of the […]
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Farmington-based program to offer personal support specialist training
FARMINGTON — Personal support specialist training will be offered this summer at Franklin County Adult Education at little or no cost to enrollees. Participants can learn the basics of the healthcare field and help neighbors and friends at the same time. This 50-hour course will cover how to provide daily living care to older adults […]
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Skowhegan technical center to host health careers exploration camp in August
SKOWHEGAN — Somerset Career & Technical Center is set to host Summer Scrub Club, a health careers exploration camp, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Aug. 8-10, at the center at 61 Academy Circle. The camp is designed to introduce participants to a wide variety of careers available in health care and […]
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Augusta library to host talk on Gannett family, 1st Amendment
AUGUSTA — Genie Gannett plans next month to present “Living Your Freedoms: The First Amendment and the Gannetts of Maine,” a story about how the Gannett family lived their First Amendment freedoms across four generations. The talk is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, in the Community Meeting Room at Lithgow Public Library, 45 […]
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Rockland Apprenticeshop plans 50th anniversary celebration July 17-23
The event includes an open house, free sailing for youth and adults, boatshop tours, a demonstration, food and music all week long.
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Collaborative hospice volunteer training to be offered
Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area, Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County and Hospice Volunteers of Kennebec Valley plans to offer a collaborative 25-hour volunteer training for those interested in non-medical comfort care for individuals and family members in hospice. According to a news release from the Waterville office, the training will be held September/October and will […]
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Oakfest set for July 22-24 in Oakland
The annual Oakfest is back with a weekend of family-fun events planned for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 22, 23 and 24, in Oakland. The weekend will start Friday at the Oakfest Downtown Wine & Dine with live music, food trucks, a beer tent, wine and DACH tasting, street dancing, a children’s scavenger hunt, tours […]
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Newcastle church to celebrate restoration completion July 17
NEWCASTLE — A celebration of new restorations completed at the historic St. Patrick Church, 380 Academy Hill Road, is set for 1:15 p.m. Sunday, July 17, inside the old church. July 17 is the 214th anniversary of the church’s dedication. A Mass of Thanksgiving will precede the event at 11 a.m. in the new church […]
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Sound bath event set for July 17, 25 at Camden Amphitheatre
Sound Therapist Jim Doble and didgeridoo musician Forest Weston plans to use a variety of resonant instruments to create soothing waves of sound during two community sound bathings on Sunday, July 17, and Monday, July 25, in the Camden Amphitheatre on Atlantic Avenue. Sound bathing is a meditative experience in which those in attendance are […]