Keeping a small arts center alive in this economy is day-in, day-out work. But the payoff comes when we get to not just present incredible music but rock out with our community. Next week feels like pure payday — and I couldn’t be more excited. Two very different, equally electric nights of music are on […]
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Preserving the harvest: Your guide to the basics of sustainable food storage
Picture yourself in January, opening a glass jar of summer tomatoes you preserved yourself — their rich flavor bursting with August sunshine, no plastic packaging clouding the view. Or imagine reaching into your freezer for perfectly preserved berries you bought at peak season for a fraction of their February price, stored in reusable silicone containers […]
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Community panel to discuss future of former Wiscasset nuclear site
The Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel is set to meet Sept. 30 in Wiscasset.
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Former Bath sardine cannery opening for boat storage
The Cannery Group LLC hopes this will be the prelude to a mixed-use revival of the space.
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This cargo boat has a history in the Midcoast
The maritime world is full of great names — names of islands, ledges, bays and outcroppings. One name that I didn’t know anything about until recently is that of a local street — “Gundalo”. Gundalo Gap is a small lane off of Mere Point Road that leads out to the water, and I had always […]
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Topsham residents to vote on funding mechanism for apartment complex
If approved at the polls in November, a tax increment financing district would allow for the development of a workforce housing complex on Union Park Road.
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Damariscotta venue to host open mic for music and spoken word
Open mic returns at the Long Barn at Inn Along the Way’s Chapman Farm, 741 Main St., Damariscotta on Saturday, Sept. 13. Local performer sign-up begins at 1 p.m. and performances are from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Artist performances, inn tours and hay field walks are all part of the ambiance at this by-donation fundraiser in support […]
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Novel Jazz Septet brings sounds of Ellington and Strayhorn to Boothbay Harbor
As Maine’s Novel Jazz Septet celebrates the group’s 21st year together, it brings the music of the great Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn to the historic Boothbay Harbor Opera House on Friday, Sept. 12. Through regular trips to the Duke Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian Museum as well as the Strayhorn Collection at the Library of […]
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Pejepscot History Center lecture examines how war affects the natural world
As part of its year-long theme, “The Land and its People,” Pejepscot History Center’s fifth Joshua Chamberlain Legacy Lecture examines the havoc war wreaks on the natural world. The talk is at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, at Dutchman’s event venue in Fort Andross, Brunswick. University of Georgia environmental historian Brian Allen Drake, editor of […]
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Trout Unlimited to discuss trolling at Topsham meeting
The Merrymeeting Bay Chapter of Trout Unlimited will hold a public meeting and presentation on “Trolling for Maine’s Trout & Salmon: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly” from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, at Sea Dog Brewing, 1 Bowdoin Mill Island in Topsham. Trolling Maine’s ponds and lakes is a traditional and effective way to […]