Poland Spring employees working at the company’s Poland, Hollis and Kingfield bottling facilities helped spread holiday cheer throughout their communities this holiday season by supporting efforts to aid local families in need. At the company’s bottling plant in Poland, employees donated a total of 42 turkeys to the Lifesprings program, the Poland Food Pantry and […]
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Rumford church bringing back food pantry
Praise Assembly of God Church Pastor Justin Thacker is in the church’s library with his daughter Hannah, who loves children’s books. The church is bringing back its food pantry and is also offering a clothing closet and use of a library to the public. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times) RUMFORD — After a 10-month hiatus, the Praise […]
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Lewiston food pantry's traffic doubles over last year
LEWISTON — As people streamed through the line at St. Mary’s Food Pantry on Tuesday morning to grab Thanksgiving boxes, the first face they saw was Renay McCluskey on her first day of volunteering. She’d just survived living two and a half years in a tent in the Lewiston woods with her dog and fiance. […]
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SAD 17 board approves West Paris elementary school food pantry
PARIS — The School Administrative District 17 board of directors voted unanimously Monday evening to allow Agnes Gray Elementary School in West Paris to establish a food pantry. School Principal Beth Clarke said to get the pantry up and running the school would partner with Good Shepherd Food Bank. “We’d get a majority of our […]
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4-H'ers raising funds to assist local food pantries with meat purchase
NEW GLOUCESTER — Cumberland County 4-H members Caleb and Katie McGrath-Holmquist and Amber, Amanda and Austin Holmes are raising funds to purchase three market hogs and three market lambs from the Cumberland Fair 4-H Livestock Auction to donate to the Gray and New Gloucester food pantries. The auction will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. […]
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Volunteers and nine churches provide for those in need
LISBON FALLS — Debbie Hill’s 91-year-old mother, Dorothy, liked going to yard sales. During a day of bargain shopping, Dorothy saw a sign for a clothing bank and went inside to look for a good deal. The volunteers inside made coffee for her that day and every other time she stopped in. Hill was so […]
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Teacher grant recipients listed LEWISTON — The Lewiston Education Fund has announced the funding of teacher grants for the 2016-2017 grant cycle. Stephen Belleau, Gifted and Talented program, Jenn Carter, Lewiston Middle School, Stephanie Couture, Lewiston Middle School, Tiffany Demarest, Montello, Kathy Heermann, Longley, and Stephen Moore, Lewiston Middle School, were each awarded funding for […]
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American Legion hosting DJ Jean Louis AUBURN — William J. Rogers Post 153, American Legion, will host music, karaoke and dance with DJ Jean Louis from 7 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in May at 71 South Main St. The dates are May 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27. Members and guests are welcome. […]
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Franco Center postpones Québec trip LEWISTON — Gendron Franco Center has announced that it will reschedule the maple sugar day-trip to Lac-Mégantic, Québec, planned for Saturday, April 1, due to the winter weather forecasted. FMI: 207-783-1585, [email protected]. Jones Dance Band to perform BUCKFIELD — Jones Dance Band will perform from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturdays, April 1, 8, 15,22 and 29, […]
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Food Summit to address food insecurity in Greater Franklin County
FARMINGTON — No one should go hungry in local communities, yet children are arriving at school not having eaten, and more and more seniors are accessing area food pantries looking for help. The United Way of the Tri-Valley Area and Healthy Community Coalition will host a Food Summit on Thursday, April 6, that will include […]