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School Notebook: March 27

March 27, 2024March 23, 2024

$1K technical education scholarship available Bar Harbor Bank & Trust is offering a $1,000 scholarship to income-eligible seniors in Cumberland County attending a technical career program and planning to attend a college or technical school the year after graduation. Accepted applicants may also apply for a second $1,000 scholarship to be used for their second […]

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Coastal Journal Meetings: March 29-April 5

March 26, 2024March 25, 2024

Bath Tue. 4/2 5 p.m. Planning Board Workshop City Hall Wed. 4/3 10 a.m. Housing Subcommittee City Hall Wed. 4/3 4 p.m. Bike/Pedestrian Committee City Hall Wed. 4/3 6 p.m. City Council Zoom, City Hall Thu. 4/4 8 a.m. Climate Action Commission City Hall Brunswick Mon. 4/1 6:30 p.m. Town Council Zoom, Town Hall Tue. […]

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‘Signs of the Season’ citizen science trainings scheduled

March 25, 2024

University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant will begin a series of workshops next week for those interested in participating in the Signs of the Seasons citizen science project, a statewide initiative to identify and record cyclical and seasonal changes in more than 20 different indicator species, such as milkweed, butterflies and loons, […]

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Cooking at the Cove: You’ll go bananas for these healthy nighttime nibbles

by Karen Schneider March 21, 2024March 18, 2024

We’ve been told repeatedly by health experts, “No eating after dinner. No nighttime snacking.” However, what if we have an evening snack attack and we just can’t help it? What if we must have a little smackerel of something to get us through until breakfast? It doesn’t have to be a bowl of ice cream […]

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Poetry coming back to the park in Bath

by Mikayla Patel March 20, 2024March 25, 2024

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Patten Free Library will hold its fourth annual Poetry Walk next month.

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Arts Calendar: March 22-29

March 20, 2024March 17, 2024

Comedy Friday 3/22 Brian Glowacki: 7 p.m., Empire Comedy Club, 575 Congress St., Portland. $25. 21-plus. empirecomedyme.com Saturday 3/23 “YES&Co. Improv with Nat Warren-White”: 7 p.m., Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St., Freeport. $20 advance, $25 at door, $15 students. meetinghousearts.org Lewis Black: 8 p.m., Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. $47.50-$190. porttix.com Saturday 3/23 & […]

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Community Calendar: March 22-29

March 20, 2024March 19, 2024

Books/Authors Friday 3/22 Maggie Thrash author talk: “Rainbow Black,” 7 p.m., Print: A Bookstore, 273 Congress St., Portland. printbookstore.com Saturday 3/23 “Entering the Narrows: Poetry for Strength and Solace”: Presented by poets and scholars Mihku Paul and Claire Millikin, 6:30 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, 1 Middle St., Brunswick. Free. uubrunswick.org Tuesday 3/26 MZ […]

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People and Business: March 20

March 20, 2024March 19, 2024

Hires, promotions, appointments Matthew Glassman was appointed executive and artistic director of the Chocolate Church Art Center in Bath. Glassman was co-artistic director and ensemble member at Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts from 2000 to 2022. Elizabeth Carlson-Guerin has been named artistic director of Acorn Productions, a nonprofit theater organization that produces the Maine Playwrights […]