Maine Media Workshops administers the annual contest, which recognizes innovation in portraiture.
2021
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, News
Maine’s new poet laureate is a small-town librarian who’s written 2 books of poems
Julia Bouwsma is a farmer and director of the Webster Library in Kingfield, and teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington.
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Posted inElections, Local Elections, Maine, News, Politics
Westbrook voters to consider ranked-choice voting in city elections
Residents will vote in November on a proposal that would allow ranked-choice voting in mayoral, City Council and School Committee races.
Posted inNation & World
Biden administration plan will offer J&J vaccine to migrants
DHS will jab them soon after they cross the border and await processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Barbie maker Mattel launches new line of coronavirus-fighting dolls
They feature British vaccine co-developer Sarah Gilbert.
Posted inMaine
South Thomaston will pay people $200 to get fully vaccinated
Residents and others who frequent the town are eligible for the payments if they get inoculated by Sept. 12.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Few weigh in on Maine Turnpike Authority plan to increase tolls
Turnpike officials say they need to raise an additional $18 million annually for construction projects after seeing toll revenue drop during the pandemic.
Posted inNation & World
Indonesia becomes 2nd in Asia to hit 100,000 COVID deaths
Just 8 percent of its 270 million population is fully inoculated.
Posted inSports
Match play golf: Powell, Cole advance to final
Jeff Cole rolls to a semifinal win, and Drew Powell needs a 20-plus-foot putt on the third playoff hole to advance at the MSGA’s Match Play Invitational.
Posted inNation & World
China seals city as its worst virus outbreak in a year grows
Officials say no one, whether tourist or resident, can leave Zhangjiajie.