Nolan Burgess of Whitefield, a senior at Erskine Academy, has been selected to receive the 2024 Principal’s Award. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, recognizes a high school senior’s academic excellence, outstanding school citizenship and leadership. Burgess is a consistent high-honors student in a highly competitive academic program that includes honors or accelerated […]
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Extension to offer vegetable, fruit school in Augusta March 26
AUGUSTA — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers Association plans to host the Maine Vegetable and Fruit School. The event is planned from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, at the Elks Lodge 964, 397 Civic Center Drive. Geared toward individuals involved in vegetable and […]
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Downeast Trout Unlimited to host meeting about water quality in streams
Downeast Trout Unlimited plans to host David Thorne, fisheries biologist and stream habitat coordinator for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, for a discussion of efforts to improve water quality and increase reproductive success of Brook Trout in streams impaired by acidic deposition. The hybrid meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, […]
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An evening with Brandy Clark & Hayes Carll set for Waterville
Brandy Clark and Hayes Carll will take the stage at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at the Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. in Waterville. A 17x Grammy-nominee, CMA Award-winner and Tony-nominee, Brandy Clark is one of her generation’s most esteemed songwriters and musicians. In the midst of yet another landmark year, Clark released her […]
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Mid-Coast Audubon to offer Damariscotta Mills birding field trip
Mid-Coast Audubon is set to lead a field trip in the Damariscotta Mills area Saturday, March 16, to check the pools above and below the famous fish ladder and also look out over Great Salt Bay. Participants can expect to see a good representation of overwintering ducks, including Hooded, Common and Red-breasted Mergansers, Common Goldeneye, […]
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Winthrop society to celebrate Irish heritage with folk singer
The Winthrop Maine Historical Society is set to host Irish folk singer Rob Roberts at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at the Winthrop History and Heritage Center, 107 Main St. In between songs, Roberts will present a bit of the history. He began playing music at an early age and eventually settled into the Celtic […]
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Alfond center plans Polar Plunge in Oakland on March 16
The Alfond Youth & Community Center, serving the Boys & Girls Club and YMCA of Greater Waterville, is set to host its 31st Annual Polar Plunge on March 16. The event takes place at 11 a.m. at the Oakland Boat Launch, 22 Old Belgrade Ave. The center hopes to have 100 participants to celebrate the […]
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘We’re Going Home’ and ‘Princess of the Wild Sea’
A loving tribute to the author Cynthia Thayer’s husband Bill Thayer and their 40-year marriage, and a novel for young readers by Megan Frazer Blakemore.
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MOVIE REVIEW: Danielle Macdonald makes ‘Falling for Figaro’ rom-com float
We find ourselves here in a pretty much predictable rom-com film set, at first, in a boardroom in a big city where futures are decided, especially for our Millie Cantwell, (Danielle Macdonald, “Dumplin” 2018, “Bird Box” 2018.) But hold on, after the boardroom and some nonsexual chatty bedroom scenes, the story suddenly takes us to […]
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First graduate of guide dog program to share experiences with organization
Damariscotta’s Skidompha Library will host the talk March 14.