PORTLAND
Writers Alliance gets grant to help ‘Poets From Here’
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance has received a grant from the Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Expansion Arts Fund to support “Poems From Here,” a recently launched initiative from Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum.
“Poems From Here” is a weekly radio broadcast on Maine Public Radio in which Kestenbaum selects and reads a poem by a Maine or regional poet and shares with listeners how language has the power to move and surprise.
The $2,600 grant will help to pay a modest honorarium to each poet selected for “Poems From Here” in 2017.
Poets whose work was selected in late 2016 for “Poems From Here” were also awarded an honorarium thanks to the Kirby Family Foundation’s support of MWPA projects and programming.
AUGUSTA
Hallowell launches online motor vehicle registrations
Hallowell has launched Rapid Renewal, the online service for the renewal of motor vehicle registrations.
Rapid Renewal is an e-commerce service allowing citizens to conduct business with municipal government and state government in one seamless online transaction. Residents are able to renew vehicle registrations and pay municipal excise taxes online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Payments are accepted through e-check and credit card.
Rapid Renewal may be accessed through www.sosonline.org, the Secretary of State’s site for online services.
For more details, call the Department of the Secretary of State at 626-8400 or email sos.office@maine.gov.
TREE Foundation receives $10,000 from Weyerhaeuser
The Maine TREE Foundation has received a $10,000 grant from The Weyerhaeuser Foundation to support a variety of programs.
The funding is intended to finance programs for area schools at the Holt Research Forest in Arrowsic, providing public information about the impending spruce budworm impact on Maine’s balsam fir and spruce forest, and support for the Project Learning Tree website and workshops.
Maine TREE was founded in 1989 by a group of timberland owners, forest product producers, tree farmers and others interested in the Maine forest.
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