OXFORD — Grover Precision provided Agnes Gray Elementary School in West Paris with seasonal work on projects that support its outdoor learning initiative. This summer, a crew spent four days in the school garden. The Grover employees built a fence, installed greenhouses and sent school staff on a $500 shopping spree at Paris Farmers Union […]

BIDDEFORD — Maine Community Bank, with its Biddeford Savings and Mechanics Savings divisions, has created a charitable foundation to unite and support the communities they serve. The Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation’s mission is to help individuals and families in the bank’s local communities meet their basic needs and achieve financial empowerment. Its two […]

POLAND — Thomas Thrasher, founder of Canyon Springs Landscaping LLC and a board member of Agassiz Village, recently led more than 25 volunteers from Northland JCB, Lost Valley, G B Property Management and Mattra Inc. in donating time and resources to renovate the grounds at Agassiz Village, a nonprofit camp for underprivileged youth. Volunteers removed […]

LEWISTON — In a second round of COVID-19-related grant allocations, Lewiston-based Community Health Options, the state’s only nonprofit, member-led health insurance plan, donated $10,000 to Tree Street Youth. Tree Street Youth helps elementary, middle and high school students get learning enrichment, academic tutoring, college preparation, and offers internships or mentoring opportunities for 18- to 24-year-olds. […]

AUBURN — The L-A Community Little Theatre received $2,500 this month from the Modern Woodmen of America Matching Funds Campaign. The donation was made in support of the successful online silent auction that CLT held in June.

AUBURN — The DuBois Realty Group of Keller Williams Realty wrapped up its Give Where You Live giving campaign for 2019 with a donation to Trinity Jubilee Center for $1,800. The donation will support the Trinity Jubilee Center’s Sponsor a Meal Project. The project invites people and businesses to “adopt a day” in the soup […]

AUBURN — Boston-based New Balance Foundation has made a second $50,000 to the Good Shepherd Food Bank in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this latest round of funding, more than 60 nonprofit grantees recently received a total of $1.25 million in New Balance Foundation COVID-19 grants. New Balance has three manufacturing facilities in Maine.

LEWISTON — State Farm Agents Lisa Laliberte and Sam Francis donated six $170 coolers to the Lewiston Schools Nutrition Program. The two had reached out asking how to help and were told about the growing concern of keeping food cold as the weather warms. Laliberte and Francis quickly purchased six 54-quart coolers that will help […]

AUBURN — The Androscoggin Chapter of Land Surveyors donated $3,300 to the Good Shepherd Food Bank, which will provide 13,200 meals to hungry people in Maine. The chapter rallied donations from local surveyors supporting the greater Androscoggin County area. The donation was part of a COVID-19 response initiative by the Maine Society of Land Surveyors. […]