The York-based company is eliminating 32 jobs and outsourcing production of its Village Candles to a third party in New Hampshire.
Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Megan Gray is an arts and culture reporter at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails. Her current beat is her favorite yet, and she loves the stories that take her to behind the scenes to an artist studio or theater backstage. Outside of work, she likes to explore Maine’s hiking trails and coastal islands with her husband, and she definitely wants to pet your dog.
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$100,000 donation will help digitize Portland library’s center for city history
The money will help fund a sound booth and podcasting equipment in this special research room at the Portland Public Library.
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Art exhibit honors Maine’s Deaf community, victims of Lewiston shootings
The curators wanted to create a place for healing as the 2-year anniversary of the tragedy approaches.
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Former staffer sentenced to 3 years for stealing $225,000 from 2020 US Senate candidate
Matthew McDonald told Max Linn that he would invest the money in cryptocurrency, court documents say.
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In Maine State Prison, these book groups are led by incarcerated people
The Maine Humanities Council works with nearly a dozen incarcerated people in state prisons to run regular book groups, including a recent discussion at the Maine State Prison on Lois Lowry’s ‘The Giver.’
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Speedwell’s new photo book reveals a magical, mysterious New England
The nonprofit has organized a panel discussion and two exhibitions in conjunction with the release of ‘The Haunted.’
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This year’s CMCA biennial spans 97 works by 29 artists with ties to Maine
The show at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland features artists who range from emerging to experienced.
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Making art helps with her Parkinson’s. Her son in Maine wants it displayed.
Devan Newell, of Scarborough, lobbied to have his mother Leslie’s art put up at the Old Port Sea Grill and is working to get it shown elsewhere.
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See Maine through the eyes of renowned photographer Gordon Parks
These images made in 1944 for Standard Oil have never been exhibited before and are on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art through Nov. 9.
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A new box office is just the ticket for the State Theatre
The venue is renovating a neighboring storefront to add space and help reduce lines.