BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will host a family day from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22. The museum is located at Hubbard Hall, and admission is free and open to the public. Participants can learn about how the Arctic Ocean is filled with life, including some of Earth’s largest mammals. […]
Alex Lear
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Alex Lear is a lifelong Mainer who has spent 25 years in journalism -- the first 20 as a reporter for newspapers in Damariscotta and Falmouth, then as Opinions section editor for the Sun Journal and now a digital producer with the Maine Trust for Local News. His long-running “Learics” column won first place in the Maine Press Association’s 2023 Better Newspaper Contest. He and his wife Lauren are kept young by their 9-year-old daughter Alaina. Send feedback and suggestions to Alex.
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Phippsburg sportsmen’s group to host winter field day
PHIPPSBURG — The Phippsburg Sportsmen’s Association will host its Winter Youth and Family Field Day on Sunday, Feb. 23. The event, to be held at the John Rogers Outdoor Education Center on Pitch Pine Hill, 272 Main Road, will include dog sledding, Nordic skiing, snow shoeing, tracking, an introduction to orienteering, a cell phone scavenger […]
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Freeport High’s beard-growing contest raises funds for heating assistance program
Freeport’s Carol Kaplan Fuel Assistance Fund could help about 60 households this winter.
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Cumberland taxes due March 16
CUMBERLAND — The second half of the town’s 2020 property tax bills are due Monday, March 16. Payments can be made by stopping by Town Hall between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays, and between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday. Checks can also be mailed to Attn: Tax Collector, 290 Tuttle Road, […]
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New Mt. Ararat High School nears 75% completion mark
A New Hampshire company will remove hazardous material in the original school before it’s demolished later this year.
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Bath seeks input on Elm Street-Front Street Redesign Project
BATH — Having completed work on alternative design concepts for the intersection of Elm Street and Front Street, along with part of Front Street, the city seeks public input in order to refine the design. Bath contracted with Terrence J. DeWan & Associates, a Yarmouth landscape architecture firm, to create the design, which is meant […]
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Harpswell Coastal Academy students share personal stories, poems with new book
The students worked with the Portland-based Telling Room to write and publish “Somehow I Knew What to Do: Personal Narratives from Harpswell Coastal Academy.”
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Fundraiser for Cumberland arts center grand piano nears 75% of goal
The Greely Music Boosters group looks to buy the $55,000 instrument in time for April’s 2020 Honors Jazz Festival.
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DOT nixes Cumberland’s request for signal at Route 100 intersection
A Maine Department of Transportation official says a traffic light is not warranted, but favors a four-way stop.
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Durham talk to highlight history of Maine murderers
DURHAM — The Durham Historic District Commission will host author Annette Vance Dorey on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Eureka Center, 606 Hallowell Road. Dorey will give a talk on her book “Maine Mothers Who Murdered 1875-1925: Doing Time in State Prison,” which tells the stories of more than 30 mothers accused […]