LEWISTON — A record 53 films, including one on the creation of Spruce Mountain ski area in Jay, will be featured next month at the fourth-annual Emerge Film Festival. Short films will have a more prominent role, with 44 selected for the festival, scheduled for April 27-29. One of them won a 2016 Student Academy […]
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Land trusts buy 800 acres on Crooked River
Local land trusts have signed a $1.37 million agreement to conserve roughly 800 acres along Crooked River, the largest tributary to Sebago Lake, the drinking water source for the greater Portland area. On Tuesday, CLT Co. President Robert Carlson, 89, of Harrison signed quitclaim deeds with the Western Foothills and Loon Echo land trusts, retaining the land […]
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Auburn theater group considers housing plan next door
AUBURN — An idea to tie a new artist housing and studio development with the Community Little Theatre will be presented to the public Thursday night. Community Little Theatre President Chris L’Hommedieu said his group is hosting a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. June 19 at the theater, 30 Academy St., for the public […]
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Land trust pitches purchases to Otisfield board
OTISFIELD — The Western Foothills Land Trust and the Loon Echo Land Trust are working together to develop a community forest project on the Crooked River that will include 590 acres of woodlands in Otisfield and Harrison. Lee Dassler of the Western Foothills Land Trust told Otisfield selectmen last week that the trust will be […]