ORONO — After last year’s 25th annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Holiday Market, organizers renamed the event Wabanaki Winter Market to better represent participants and the wide range of artforms. And because of the coronavirus, the word “virtual” has been added to the name of the 26th annual market slated for Saturday, Dec. 12, according to […]
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Maine Film Center and Mid-Maine Technical Center to continue Maine Student Film Crew
Third workshop about stop-motion animation set for Dec. 10.
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MaineCF Grants available for Kennebec County nonprofits
New funding focus in effect for 2021; application deadline is Feb. 15.
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Forage, crop insurance webinar for livestock owners set for Dec. 9
ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer two opportunities for livestock owners to get updates on forage resources and crop insurance starting at 10 a.m and again at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9. “Got Livestock, Need Hay?” will feature UMaine Extension professor Rick Kersbergen sharing information for livestock owners on assessing how much […]
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St. Mark’s Christmas fair to be held online Dec. 5-10
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Waterville, hosts a Christmas Fair every year on the first Saturday in December. This year the fair is different, an online event. Rather than the usual one-day event, this year’s fair runs from Saturday, Dec. 5, through Thursday, Dec. 10. Spearheaded by parish members John DeWitt of Sidney, Mary Ellen Johnston […]
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New birding club for Maine youth planned through April
ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is offering a new statewide birding club for youth ages 9 to 18, with online monthly meetings to be scheduled through April. According to a news release from the extension office, the “4-H Bird Chats” club is for youth interested in citizen science, learning more about birds […]
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Preparing edible gifts topic of Dec. 8 webinar
ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar about preparing edible holiday gifts at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8. According to a news release from the extension office, topics will include cost-effective ways to make edible holiday gifts, food safety tips to consider, and Maine foods to use in soup and baking […]
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Virtual Midcoast Tree Auction to replace festival in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — Less than a week after making the difficult decision to postpone this year’s Midcoast Tree Festival in Brunswick because of the pandemic, organizers have come up with a creative way to bring holiday joy to the community while raising money for All Saints Parish (St. John’s School), Spectrum Generations’ Meals on Wheels program, […]
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Free diabetes and nutrition program to meet on Zoom beginning Jan. 19
AUGUSTA — Spectrum Generations in partnership with Healthy Living for ME will offer a free workshop to help individuals with diabetes or prediabetes, and their caregivers or family members. Living Well with Diabetes will be offered Jan. 19 through Feb. 23. Workshops participants will meet weekly from 3 to 5 p.m. on Zoom, a video conferencing […]
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Genevieve LeMoine to present ‘Melting Away: Disappearing Archeology in the Arctic’ Dec. 7
Zoom event hosted by Lithgow Public Library.