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Music without Borders Piano Festival postponed

BETHEL — Music without Borders, the international piano festival slated to return to Bethel in July for a 14th season on the Gould Academy campus, has been postponed. Uncertainties about safe international travel, vaccinations, and other conditions for mitigation of the coronavirus pandemic make it impossible, this season, to produce what had become a summertime […]

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MLT joins Sebago Clean Waters Partnership

BETHEL/SEBAGO — Mahoosuc Land Trust (MLT) is the newest partner in Sebago Clean Waters (SCW)—nine conservation organizations working with the Portland Water District (PWD) to protect water quality, community well-being, a vibrant economy, and fish and wildlife habitat in the Sebago region through voluntary forestland conservation. SCW’s goal is to protect 25 percent (35,000 more […]

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Community health needs being surveyed

AUGUSTA — We are excited to share that Healthy Living for ME™ (HL4ME™) is conducting a statewide Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Phase I of this assessment includes the dissemination and participation of a twenty-nine question virtual survey. The survey should take approximately eight minutes to complete and will provide HL4ME™ with valuable insight on […]

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Health needs assessment requested

AUGUSTA — Healthy Living for ME™ (HL4ME™) is conducting a statewide Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Phase I of this assessment includes the dissemination and participation of a twenty-nine question virtual survey. The survey should take approximately eight minutes to complete and will provide HL4ME™ with valuable insight on the following: • The type of […]

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Conservation biologist’s vision inspires MLT

BETHEL — An outpouring of gifts from family members, colleagues, and friends of Ken Hotopp has created a Mahoosuc Land Trust (MLT) fund to conserve lands with minimal human manipulation and disturbance.  The fund honors the late Kenneth P. Hotopp, naturalist, conservation biologist, and defender of wilderness and the climate who understood that minimally disturbed lands are […]

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MDA assembles 200 cleaning and hygiene kits

MANCHESTER — The Maine Dental Association recently partnered with nonprofit organization Maine Needs to assemble and distribute 200 cleaning and hygiene kits to four sites. The association, through its donation campaign called Maine Needs a Smile, collected personal hygiene items like toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, deodorant, and shampoo, and basic cleaning supplies, like laundry detergent, all-purpose cleaner, […]