The Bureau of Parks and Lands Allagash Wilderness Waterway is continuing its Visiting Artist Program. The program’s goal is to immerse a visual artist in the AWW wilderness to interpret and share their experience through their art. The selected artist will receive: • Rustic cabin lodging on the Waterway for two weeks during August; • […]
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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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Vermont-based center offering milk storage, handling grant
This grant opportunity closes Thursday, Feb. 9.
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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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Temple Beth El congregation returns to in-person Hanukkah celebrations with Sunday’s party
This year marks the return to an in-person event for Temple Beth El with games, songs and food, after two years of pandemic-driven adaptations for the annual celebration.
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Finding Our Voices awarded $10K from Cohen foundation
Finding Our Voices has been awarded $10,000 from the Sam L. Cohen Foundation. The grant aims to bring safety and freedom to Maine women and children trapped in domestic abuse, through the Finding Our Voices Get Out Stay Out fund. The fund pays for short-term motel stays, apartment rent, car repairs and gas cards, computer […]
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Brewer-based hospital launches statewide How Are You? movement
It is the next step in checking in on Mainers’ well-being, building deeper connections.
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Ag department offers targeted farm loan funding for underserved groups, beginning farmers
BANGOR — U.S. Department of Agriculture Maine Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Sherry A. Hamel reminds producers that FSA offers specially targeted farm ownership and farm operating loans to underserved applicants as well as beginning farmers and ranchers. “Each year, a portion of FSA’s loan funds are set aside to lend to targeted underserved […]
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Veterans’ Emergency Financial Assistance available
AUGUSTA — The Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services and Fedcap’s Veterans Forward program have partnered to offer the bureau’s Veterans’ Emergency Financial Assistance Program for veterans who suffer an emergency and do not have sufficient savings or access to other financial assistance to resolve it. Examples of grant assistance (up to a $2,000) for veterans […]
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Tourism association kicks off statewide food drive
The association seeks canned, non-perishable food at Calais, Fryeburg, Hampden, Kittery, Yarmouth sites.