Applications for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Master Food Preserver Program are now available. The 10-session course is scheduled to meet from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, June 14 to Sept. 6, at the UMaine Extension office, 75 Clearwater Drive in Falmouth, and at Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road. The 35-hour course combines […]
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Lovell committee seeks entries for arts, artisans fair
The Lovell Arts & Artisans Fair committee is seeking new artists and artisans for the 47th annual event, planned from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the New Suncook School on Route 5 in Lovell. All disciplines and media will be considered, and past fairs have featured painting, pottery, jewelry, quilts, rugs, […]
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Rangeley summer youth drama camp registration opens
The Rangeley Friends of the Arts is offering three different week-long day camps in drama for youth this summer at the RFA Lakeside Theater, 2493 Main St. Whatever COVID guidelines are appropriate at the time will be used, according to a news release from RFA. • July 11-15, Drama Camp Week 1 for children ages […]
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Registration opens for summer Catholic youth program
PORTLAND — Hundreds of Maine youths can participate in a weeklong Catholic youth program for those in grades one through 12 that is dedicated to teaching the Gospel. Registration is open for Totus Tuus 2022, which will be presented in 10 Maine communities this summer: Farmington, June 19-24; Houlton, June 19-24; Fort Kent, June 26-July […]
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Bureau seeks applications for visiting artist program
AUGUSTA — A visiting artist program of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Parks and Lands encourages artists this August to develop their craft through experiencing the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, according to a news release from the bureau. The waterway has fueled imaginations for centuries. When Henry David Thoreau journeyed to […]
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Colby College art museum plans spring, summer exhibits
WATERVILLE — Life and death, the nature of public selfhood and acts of seeing and expression are among themes explored in the exhibitions to be on view at the Colby College Museum of Art this spring and summer at 5600 Mayflower Hill. The breadth of the works featured in the museum’s upcoming exhibitions advance its […]
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First Universalist Church of Turner Center to welcome speaker
“The First Universalist Church of Turner Center plans to host guest speaker Chris Morin at the 10 a.m. service Sunday, Aug. 29, at the churhc on Route 117 in Turner Center. A coffee social will follow the service. Morin is an ordained Interfaith Minister through the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine, and holds a degree in […]
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Household hazardous waste collection planned in Livermore
Androscoggin Valley Council of Government will host a household hazardous waste collection from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 28, at the Livermore Transfer Station 1787 Federal Road, in Livermore. Accepted items include: Aluminum cleaner, aerosols artists’ paint and mediums, auto transmission fluid, auto body repair products, battery acid, brake fluid, bug and weed killer, bug […]
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Nonprofit to hold juried fine art, craft show in Manchester
MANCHESTER — Designing Women is scheduled to hold its 14th annual juried fine art and craft show from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, at Longfellow’s Greenhouses at 81 Puddledock Road. Nineteen artisans will celebrate the end of summer with a show to help support Winthrop’s Sexual Assault Crisis and Support Center. The […]
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Maine Wildlife: Stay Safe, Keep them Safe topic of virtual talk
Maine Wildlife: Stay Safe, Keep them Safe is the topic of a virtual talk set for 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24. This virtual talk, presented by Jennifer Marchigiani of Misfits Rehab, will discuss what a wildlife rehabilitator does and how she got started as a wildlife rehabilitator. She will share some information about Maine’s wildlife, […]