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Fiddlehead fundraiser GRAY — The Fiddlehead Art & Science Center’s 5th annual Silent & Live Auction Fundraiser, “Palette,” will take place Saturday, May 19. This year to build more excitement, the center is offering an online portion to the auction through a fundraising website called “Bidding for Good.” Online bidding is ongoing now through May […]
Michael McClellan: Education should light a fire, not fill a bucket
Irish poet William Butler Yeats once said, “Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” How true that is. However, I would even say that Yeats did not go far enough. For too long in Maine, we have not only limited ourselves to filling the buckets, we have been […]
Mildred B. Frye
LEWISTON — Mildred B. Frye, 93, of Raymond, died Sunday, April 15, at Central Maine Medical Center. She was born in Auburn, July 17, 1918, the daughter of Frederick and Abbie Damon Berry. She married Owen H. Nichols. She later married Lyman M. Frye. She had been a homemaker all of her life. She enjoyed […]
Historical Society speaker to discuss dowsing
RAYMOND — The Raymond-Casco Historical Society will present “Dowsing,” with Wayne Holmquist as the speaker, at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 9, at the Raymond Public Safety Building. Holmquist, of Raymond, will explain the ancient art of dowsing and how it is used to find lost graves and old wells. Not only can Holmquist identify cemetery […]
Seedlings to be historical society topic
The Raymond Casco Historical Society will host Carol Drew at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 12, at the Raymond Public Safety building on Route 302 in Raymond. Drew is the owner of Watkins Flowers and Greenhouse on 791 Roosevelt Trail in Casco. She will speak about starting seedlings and how to plant them, and will demonstrate […]
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Church Women United HARRISON — Church Women United will meet for a human rights celebration at 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 2, at the Congregational Church. Speakers will be Marion Chase, prison ministry; Sister Renatta, homeless women; and Pastor Franklyn Anderson, Honduras school children mission. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. Knitting guild PARIS — […]
J. Sutherland: Unfair discrimination
The town of Raymond has begun the process of amending its animal noise ordinance to be far-reaching and have broad negative consequences for anyone keeping farm animals in this rural town near Sebago Lake, 20 miles north of Portland. The town has undertaken the action based on the complaint of only one couple, who is […]
Bill would ensure ‘ethical government’
AUGUSTA — Legislators were urged Wednesday to approve a bill submitted by Gov. Paul LePage to close an ethics law loophole that has allowed high-level state officials to not report millions in state payments to organizations run by themselves or their spouses. The governor proposed the bill, LD 1806, shortly after publication of a Maine […]
Coastal Carolina University dean’s list
CONWAY, S.C. — The following Coastal Carolina University students have earned dean’s list status for the fall 2011 semester. Dean J. Darien of Raymond Samuel R. Hutchinson of Raymond Kyle F. Maines of Bethel