AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources seeks project applications for its 2021 Agricultural Development Grant program. The bureau expects to award up to $250,000 this year. The program supports projects involving market research, market promotion, and testing and demonstrating new technologies. Additional priority will […]
2021
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Foundation seeks applications for traditional handcrafts
ELLSWORTH — The Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts Fund of the Maine Community Foundation seeks applications. The fund supports projects and organizations that promote Maine traditional handcrafts. Only nonprofit and municipal organizations are eligible; MaineCF cannot make grants to individual artists. New this year, because of the pandemic, the fund will offer general operating support grants only […]
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Lyme disease risks, prevention talk set for March 30
The Camden Public Library will host Rika K. Keck — of NY Integrated Health and the Global Lyme Alliance Ambassador Program — for an informational online presentation about Lyme disease risks and prevention. The free program, aimed at bringing to light some of the newest studies and treatments related to Lyme disease, will be held […]
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Maine Specialty Crop Grant Program applications open
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry’s Bureau of Agriculture seeks Specialty Crop Block Grants program applications from Maine’s specialty crop industry, to present for funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The bureau anticipates awarding at least $500,000 in 2021. The block grant program is specifically designed to enhance the competitiveness […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Austin Bay: Russia joins China’s Wuhan virus lie campaign
From the beginning of the COVID-19/Wuhan virus epidemic, China’s communist government has lied about the disease, its origin and its transmissibility. It has also avoided an accurate accounting of the contagion’s health and economic consequences within the Peoples Republic, always insisting Chinese Communist Party leadership has minimized the pandemic’s effects.
Posted inSun Spots
Witness to accident shares how people help strangers in need
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Something touching I witnessed in a local business parking lot in Lewiston recently made me realize again that our instincts as fellow human beings always seem to prevail in moments of crisis. I came to this scene minutes after the incident occurred; but in listening to the answers given by the two […]
Posted inFranklin, News, The Franklin Journal
Candle causes Weld house fire; no injuries reported
A state fire investigator determined the fire was accidental.
Posted inFranklin, News
New Sharon man critically injured in fire
John Gill, 85, received burns over 80% of his body.
Posted inNews, Oxford Hills
Oxford barn leveled by fire
Crews kept flames from spreading to the nearby house.
Posted inNews, River Valley
Roxbury voters approve all articles at Sunday’s outdoor town meeting
Former Selectman John Sutton honored for 39 years of service.