MINOT — There will be a Thanksgiving Drive-Thru “Pie Sale” at Minot United Methodist Church, 142 Minot Ave., Minot on Tuesday November 24 from 9 to 11 a.m. First come, first pick. Pies will be $12 each. Masks are required for service.
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Church to hold virtual discussion groups
WATERFORD — The Waterford Congregational Church (WCC) will begin offering monthly discussion groups via Zoom on December 9, 2020 to explore our relationship to race and the privileges white members of our diverse society enjoy. Based on the curriculum “White Privilege: Let’s Talk, A Resource of Transformational Dialogue” created by the United Church of Christ (UCC), […]
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Church to hold annual wreath sale
NORWAY — Beautiful fresh handmade balsam Christmas wreaths $15 each, will be sold on Saturday, November 28, 2020 and Saturday, December 5, 2020 from 10 a.m. to noon, in the parking lot at the Second Congregational Church, UCC, 205 Main Street, Norway, Maine. All proceeds will benefit the many missions of the Second Congregational Church, […]
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Church expands its Mitten Mission
NORWAY — The Second Congregational Church, UCC, 205 Main St., Norway, Maine is requesting help in expanding its Mitten Mission. For over 50 years, a small group of dedicated members and friends of the Second Congregational Church, UCC, 205 Main St., Norway, Maine knit mittens, hats and scarves for children in the Oxford Hills school […]
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Monitoring temperature in local lakes
REGION — In the last two weeks, the weather has been spectacularly warm and that has made my job of removing heavy and slimy buoys with attached temperature sensors from lakes in this area much easier. Last November, when our team was doing this same job, there was ice on the shoreline, winter hats were a […]
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Walmart offers free Thanksgiving dinner
NATION — Through an exclusive promotion with Walmart, leading mobile rewards platform Ibotta, Campbell’s, Butterball and Coca-Cola have teamed up to launch the Free Thanksgiving Dinner program in an effort to feed millions of American families this Thanksgiving. The Walmart-exclusive items included in the Free Thanksgiving Dinner program are: • Campbell’s condensed cream of mushroom soup (10.5-ounce can) • […]
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Meetings cancelled
WEST PARIS — Due to the dramatic local increase in the number of positive COVID-19 tests, The Finnish-American Heritage Society of Maine has decided to cancel the remaining meetings of 2020. Hopefully we will see everyone again March of 2021!
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Counties designated as primary disaster areas
WASHINGTON, DC — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Maine counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Cumberland and York counties who suffered losses caused by drought and above-normal temperatures that has occurred since May 1, 2020, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans. This natural […]
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The Liberty Ship Memorial
My mother’s life-long love of photos must have begun the day she was born. Her father (Grampie Robinson) worked for local photographer Minnie Libby, who constantly used him and his family as subjects when making lighting and setting adjustments. As a result my brothers and sisters and I grew up with an amazing amount of […]
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Rotarians donate laundry detergent to food bank
BRIDGTON — Rotarians Carol Madsen and Carol Rothenberg, both from Waterford, were joined by Friends of Rotary Barbara Allen of Waterford, and Denise Eldridge of Bridgton, to affix Rotary labels on 500 bottles of laundry detergent for the Harrison Food Bank. Sandy Swett, director of the bank expressed her gratitude for all the work that […]