AREA — The 31st Annual Bridgton Hospital Golf Tournament was a huge success. On September 13, 115 community members, business leaders, Central Maine Healthcare team members, volunteers, and friends of Bridgton Hospital gathered at Bridgton Highlands Country Club to show their support for their local hospital. Nearly $30,000 was raised through registrations and raffles. These funds […]
September 2023
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Slaying the Dragon for Breast Cancer awareness
NORWAY — The Maine Dragon Boat Club will team up with the Cancer Resource Center of Maine in October to promote breast cancer awareness. On Saturday, October 7, from 1-3 p.m., the public is invited to gather at Lakeside Norway’s boat dock, 61 Lake Road, Norway, to “paddle for a purpose” and “slay the dragon” […]
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This n That
Auction NORWAY — There will be an auction on October 7 at the Norway Grange, 15 Whitman Street in Norway. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. The auction will start at 5:30 p.m. Bell Ringers NORWAY — The 2023 English Hand Bell Choir, of the Second Congregational Church, UCC, 205 Main Street, Norway, is actively recruiting […]
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Students explore career opportunities at Sunday River
NEWRY — On Thursday, September 21, the Maine Tourism Association (MTA) and Sunday River hosted 175 students from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, Buckfield Junior – Senior High School in Buckfield, and Telstar High School in Bethel. Throughout their visit, students were grouped together for a guided tour of Sunday River, immersing themselves in […]
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Jodi Phinney, co-founder of Maine Doulas, dies at 54
Phinney, who had been battling ALS, helped hundreds of mothers through pregnancy into parenting.
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UMaine System and its maintenance and service workers union at an impasse in bargaining
The university system is offering a one-year contract extension with a 3% raise. The union says that’s not enough and has requested third-party mediation.
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Open House planned, Bethel project presented
PARIS — The program at the Sept. 21 meeting of the Paris Cape Historical Society was provided by Randy Bennett, the retired executive director of the Bethel Historical Society, who did a presentation on the recently established Hastings Homestead Museum in Bethel. he museum features a house, built in 1822, that has been occupied successively […]
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Movie Review: ‘A Haunting in Venice’
‘A Haunting in Venice’ is director/star Kenneth Branagh’s third go-around as Agatha Christie-penned detective Hercule Poirot. The other two were 2017’s “Murder on the Orient Express” and 2022’s “Death on the Nile.” “A Haunting in Venice” comes barely a year and a half after the latter film, though the turnaround is less impressive when one […]
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Met ‘Live in HD’ returns to Fryeburg
FRYEBURG — The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, begins its 17th season on Saturday, October 21, with a live transmission of Jake Heggie’s ‘Dead Man Walking’, a Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove, starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean. The […]
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Kids’ Book Review: ‘The Baddies’
The Baddies Written by Julia Donaldson; Illustrated by Axel Scheffler If you are a fan … or not … of ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘Room on a Broom’, you will likely like ‘The Baddies’, newly published in July of 2023, and written by the same author and illustrated by the same illustrator. The tale is written […]