NEWCASTLE Preserve guided walk set The Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association will sponsor a guided walk on the Marsh River Preserve with naturalist Wanda Garland at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The walk will start at the kiosk, located off Route 1 and the Osprey Point Road. The 70-acre preserve protects 5,500 feet of the Marsh River including […]
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WELLS Underground Railroad studied Wells Elementary School grade 4 students completed a five-week study on the ‘Underground Railroad” with an open house event to share what they’d learned with parents and guests. Sixty-eight pupils participated in the course of study to learn about the historic network of routes and safe houses that helped bring African […]
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Juliana L’Heureux: A family story of life in the ’40s and ’50s
Brunswick native Robert N. Biette gives local history and genealogy readers a fresh point of view about Maine’s Franco-Americans heritage in a newly published family memoir. “As It Was in the Thirties and Forties: With Ancestral History,” explains the Biette family’s roots as a hard-working middle-class Franco-American family living in the Pennellville area of Brunswick. […]
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Potluck
Wednesday Free meal, 5 to 6 p.m., at Mission Possible Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. BBQ pulled pork sandwich, fries, dessert, 5 to 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 832, 50 Peary Terrace, South Portland. Per person: $6. Thursday Community meal with meatloaf, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Suggested donation: $5. Friday Friday […]
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Births
Several area hospitals no longer provide birth announcements for publication. We will publish birth announcements from parents. Forms and instructions are available here. For more information, please call 791-6300. Central Maine Medical Center Devin Walker McKellick, born March 26 to Chris Conner and Stephanie McKellick, Lisbon. Grandparents: Brenda Parise, Lewiston; Carol Ann Brown, Lisbon; Thomas […]
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WESTBROOK Climb Aboard the Food Train Trinity Lutheran Church, along with local businesses and churches, is sponsoring Climb Aboard the Food Train during the month of April. The food drive will help fill the shelves at the Westbrook Food Pantry. Donations will be collected during the weekend of May 3 through 5. For more details, […]
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Blood drives
The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Monday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Stonewall Kitchen, York Noon to 6 p.m., North Parish Church, Sanford Tuesday Noon to 6 p.m., Freeport Community Center, Freeport 1 to 6 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, Wells Thursday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., University of Southern […]
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Events
BATH Tables available for Mayfair Tables are available to rent for individuals who wish to sell their wares at the Bath Knights of Columbus Yard Sale & Lunch Cafe on Mayfair day, Saturday, May 4. The event will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 807 Middle St. Cost is $10 for a table, […]
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Juliana L’Heureux: Franco-American Leadership Council
A Franco-American Leadership Council has been formed to promote the importance of the Franco culture to the state’s future, as well as memorialize the contributions of the past. Although Maine’s first French settlers arrived in 1604 with explorer Samuel de Champlain, the 400 years of Franco history here is often called a “quiet presence.” Franco-Americans […]
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Blood Drives
The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Monday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Lost Valley Ski Resort, Auburn Tuesday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., American Red Cross Bus at Naples Library, Naples 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., St. Bartholomew’s Church, Yarmouth Noon to 5:30 p.m., Berwick Academy, South Berwick Noon […]