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The event will be held on the tarmac at Northeast Air at Portland International Jetport.

Finding Our Voices survivor-empowerment funding tops $100K

August 27, 2023August 23, 2023

More than $100,000 has been distributed from Finding Our Voices to bring safety, freedom, and comfort to Maine women and children survivors of domestic abuse through the group’s Get Out Stay Out Fund. In two years $113,640 was disbursed to 184 women from every county in Maine, about 80% of whom are mothers of young […]

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Mid-Coast Audubon to host lobster bake fundraiser Sept. 2

August 26, 2023August 10, 2023

BREMEN — Mid-Coast Audubon is hosting its annual lobster bake fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 2, at Hog Island Audubon camp in Bremen. Members of the Mid-Coast Audubon board of directors will display their cooking talents and be available to answer bird questions. A $75 donation covers boat transportation, a meal of a lobster, potato and […]

Community, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel

Local Scouts lend hand both locally and for Hawaii

August 26, 2023August 21, 2023

The slogan of Scouting is to “Do a Good Turn Daily.” Members of local Scout Troops and Cub Packs will be working this year not only on badges and awards but also on ways that they can help others in their community and as far away as Hawaii. Eric Handley of Sidney, Kennebec Valley District […]

Books, Life & Culture, Maine Authors

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Ugly History of Beautiful Things’ and ‘Just East of Nowhere’

by Bill Bushnell August 25, 2023August 24, 2023

Essays on desire and consumption by Katy Kelleher, and a complex and provocative story by Scot Lehigh

J.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine

Four hearts collide in ‘Sam & Kate’

August 24, 2023August 21, 2023

Isn’t it nice, enjoying a soft, moving duo love story, without servings of the gratuitous mingling of bodies under soft percale sheets. Here in “Sam & Kate,” we savor a piece of cake with cracks of flawed icing giving us two veterans of movie history, the great Dustin Hoffman and still sparkling Sissy Spacek embracing […]

Community, Kennebec Journal

Next Wiscasset Art Walk set for Aug. 31

August 24, 2023August 23, 2023

716 Candles Project plans to offer insight, knowledge and stories from addiction.

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Newcastle’s Frances Perkins Center holds celebration, awards ceremony

August 24, 2023August 18, 2023

NEWCASTLE — The Frances Perkins Center’s board of trustees, staff, and supporters celebrated on Aug. 13 the grand opening of the Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark with the Homestead Celebration & Awards Ceremony. The ceremony honored Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board with the Steadfast Award; Mufalo Chitam, executive director […]