Bar Mills Community Church will have many more beautiful handmade items for the Christmas Marketplace in Buxton this year. As usual we will have a great selection of fresh greens to decorate your home, a wide variety of baked goods-cookies, breads, pies… and candy to satisfy your taste buds, and don’t forget about Wanda’s Wonderful […]
October 2018
Pastrnak, Bergeron combine for 7 points, Bruins beat Sens
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — David Pastrnak had two goals and two assists, Patrice Bergeron added a goal and two assists and the Boston Bruins beat the Ottawa Senators 4-1 on Tuesday night. The Bruins (5-2-2) snapped a three-game skid and beat the Senators for the second time this season. David Krejci scored his second of […]
Peyton DePaul: Plastic pollution in the ocean
Ocean pollution is increasing rapidly, and more animals are dying due to this contamination. Over the past year, 10 percent of plastic ended up in the ocean. According to National Geographic, over 100 million marine animal species, such as dolphins, turtles, whales, and seal are dying due to ocean pollution. Many of these deaths are […]
Attorney General’s Office backs Medicaid expansion lawsuit against LePage administration
The Maine Attorney General’s Office has filed a brief supporting the lawsuit by Maine Equal Justice Partners that accuses the LePage administration of breaking the law by continuing to block the expansion of Medicaid coverage for more than 70,000 low-income Mainers. The amicus curiae brief, which was submitted in Kennebec County Superior Court on Oct. 17, was […]
Wells Elementary students lead school in Pledge of Allegiance
WELLS — For over a decade, small groups of Wells Elementary School students have been invited to the principal’s office to lead the entire student body and staff in the morning Pledge of Allegiance. As with the school’s previous principals, students now walk to Principal April Noble’s office to recite the pledge over the school’s […]
First Congregational Church of Kennebunkport welcomes new minister
KENNEBUNKPORT — The congregation of the First Congregational Church of Kennebunkport is very happy to announce the arrival of their settled minister, Rev. Charlotte E. Y. Bell. She began her new position on Oct. 2 with office hours at the church and conducted her first service at the church on Sunday, Oct. 7. The church’s Search […]
Maine Literary Award Winner to lead nonfiction workshop in Kennebunkport
KENNEBUNKPORT — In early November, the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance presents a flash nonfiction workshop with critically acclaimed writer Mira Ptacin. Winner of the 2017 Maine Literary Award for Memoir, Ptacin will offer discussion and exercises to open writers’ eyes to new possibilities and to help them create dynamic micro-essays in this three-hour workshop, “The […]
Student leadership, forward action rejuvenates Massabesic High
WATERBORO — Ask a group of Massabesic High School students to make a circle, and you’ll undoubtedly hear of the “Massabesic circle.” The legend, as it is told, is that Massabesic students are incapable of forming a circle with their peers. There are gaps in their circle, or people terribly out of place, and the […]
UNE deepens partnership with two Icelandic universities
BIDDEFORD — Late last week, the University of New England deepened its partnership with two Icelandic universities, signing an agreement with the University of Akureyri and Holar University College at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland. The agreement details how UNE’s new Professional Science master’s degree program in Ocean Food Systems will align and collaborate […]
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