Giving Tree applications The Giving Tree Project provides Christmas presents to children in need from Durham, as well as Lisbon, Sabattus and Bowdoin. Each town office has a Giving Tree, decorated with tags that list the name of a local child 18 years of age or younger, and a requested gift. Residents take a tag […]
November 2016
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Durham News
Giving Tree applications The Giving Tree Project provides Christmas presents to children in need from Durham, as well as Lisbon, Sabattus and Bowdoin. Each town office has a Giving Tree, decorated with tags that list the name of a local child 18 years of age or younger, and a requested gift. Residents take a tag […]
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Henderson holds on to council seat
A recount held on Nov. 18 in the South Portland City Council race confirmed the results from Election Day with Susan Henderson taking the second at-large seat just ahead of Kate Lewis. City Clerk Emily Scully said the official results of the recount gave Henderson a total of 4,495 votes and Lewis, 4,445, a difference […]
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Pownal News
Office hours The Town Office, at Mallett Hall, is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday 8:30 a.m.-6:30 and closed Friday. The office will not be open on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 24. Meetings The Board of Selectmen will meet on Mondays, Nov. 28, Dec. 5 and 18, at 7 p.m., at Mallett Hall […]
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Council elects Tracy as chairwoman
The Freeport Town Council has elected new leaders, sworn in members and bid farewell to a former chairman. The council unanimously elected as chairwoman Sarah Tracy, who represents District 2, at its Nov. 15 meeting. Tracy completed the final year of Kate Arno’s term in January 2013 and was re-elected in 2014. At-large Councilor Melanie […]
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Curbside composting pilot project considered
With a stagnant recycling rate, the city of South Portland is considering implementation of a curbside composting program. South Portland’s recycling rate is at 29 percent “and I think food waste is the key,” said the city’s Sustainability Coordinator Julie Rosenbach at a Nov. 14 council workshop. Organic material, particularly food waste, makes up about […]
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Freeport News
Event celebrates ‘Night Tree’ A holiday tradition children, the “Night Tree” event at Wolfe’s Neck Farm, Saturday, Dec. 3, is inspired by Eve Bunting’s book, “Night Tree.” Her story is about a family that feeds the forest animals by making decorations for a special tree. Each hour during the day, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., the […]
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Arts calendar
THEATER Friday, Dec. 2-Saturday, Dec. 3 “Oath Breakers,” presented by Naked Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Michael Levine, 7 p.m. at The Ballroom at Mechanics Hall, 519 Congress St., Portland. Free First Friday Event; Saturday, 7 p.m., $10 all ages. Tickets, visit wwwacorn-productions.org. Saturday, Dec. 3 “The Nutcracker,” presented by the Studio of the Living […]
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Monthly potlucks staple of Wolfe’s Neck Club
The Wolfe’s Neck Club may no longer make root beer in a large bucket outside the former one-room schoohouse in Freeport, as it once did, but it still holds on to a 75-year-old tradition, its monthly potluck suppers. Every second Sunday of the month at 6 p.m., old friends and new bring dishes to enjoy, […]
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Dorothy “Dot” Fern Phinney, 95, died peacefully Nov. 12, 2016, at Southern Maine Medical Center, surrounded by her family. She was born in Casco, on Nov. 22, 1921, one of 13 children born to William and Mary Maines. She attended Casco schools. In her early years, she was an accomplished seamstress making draperies and beautiful […]