While learning how to get the best savings, Durham group members also donate to local charities. Pat Provost and the other women who meet twice monthly at the Eureka Community Center for Couponing for the Community might share some light moments, but they’re dead serious when it comes to saving money on their shopping bills. […]
Web
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Southern Forecaster, Web
Bonny Eagle High School Robotics Team hosting toy drive
The Bonny Eagle Robotics Team (BERT) is collecting donations of new unopened Lego or other brick construction kits for children of all ages for donation to the patients of the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital. Collection boxes are located at the following schools and businesses in the Bonny Eagle area through Tuesday, March 31: Bonny Eagle […]
advertisement
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
Buxton kids ‘camp out’ to read
Sleeping bags, blankets, stuffed animals and tents were unlikely classroom props as students and staff at Buxton Center Elementary School on Friday focused on reading. It was all part of “Camp Read A Lot,” a day culminating a week filled with reading activities at the school that found ways to make reading fun for students. […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
Briefs
Sebago Brewing owners receive Maine honors The partners of Sebago Brewing Co. – Brad Monarch, Kai Adams and Tim Haines – have been awarded the Maine Restaurant Association’s 2015 Restaurateur of the Year Award. The trio started their restaurant enterprise in 1998 in the early days of Maine’s then still-burgeoning craft brew revolution. Their first […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
Neighborhood store returns
After closing in late December, a popular Route 302 corner store has reopened, with new but familiar ownership. Josh Gelston, a former longtime employee of Highland Variety and the owner of Starlite Cafe? at the Westbrook Community Center, reopened the store as Duck Pond Variety last Friday. This week, he said the store has already […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Northern Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, Web
D’ailleurs, there’s French dancing, too
If you’ve never seen French dancing, you’re in for a big surprise, says the organizer of a French and French-Canadian community dance, scheduled for Sunday, March 15 at the Pownal Town Hall. Noveau Chapeau will provide the music and Marie Wendt will give lessons in French dance during a wide-ranging evening of activities, which begins […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
Voila! Curtain rises for local students’ French opera
All 80 students from L’Ecole Francaise du Maine of Freeport will perform at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, in a children’s opera in front of what is sure to be an appreciative audience, at the Franco American Heritage Center in Lewiston. Julien Joubert’s “La Maison du Vieux Leon” will be part of the monthly […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Northern Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, Web
Recycling rewarded at Freeport High School
Seven Freeport High School students who wrote a grant that helped expand the school’s recycling program have earned an award from ecomaine, a recycling and waste incineration facility that services 53 communities, including Freeport. Dede Bennell, service learning and aspirations coordinator for Regional School Unit 5, accompanied the Earth Club students to ecomaine in Portland. […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
Toasting a town’s legacy
There was a great coming together in the crowded Town Council chambers last week as the town paid tribute to six visionary women who created Freeport’s comprehensive social service agency. Former Town Councilor Ed Bonney, Town Council newcomer Bill Rixon, Lt. Susan Nourse of the Freeport Police Department and many others paid tribute March 3 […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
Propane truck rollover shuts down Gorham roads
A propane gas truck flipped over about 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday at the roundabout on New Portland Road in Gorham, closing stretches of three roads. State and Gorham police are at the scene, along with firefighters, who are standing by. New Portland Road is expected to be closed several hours from the roundabout to Johnson […]