Sugarhouses open their doors for Maine Maple Sunday Weekend events March 25-26 with demonstrations, samplings and sales, pancake breakfasts and other family activities.
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Cape’s Elizabeth’s wayward seals – two of them – rehabilitated and released
The seal pup rescued after wandering town streets in January and another pup rescued a week earlier were safely returned to the ocean Thursday.
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Gorham farm owners balk at Mosher’s Corner rezoning
The proposal would rezone the Mosher’s Corner neighborhood into agricultural industrial.
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Freedom Reads sets up ‘micro-libraries’ at Windham prison
The nonprofit organization’s founder says supplying books to prisons builds community and inspires hope among the incarcerated.
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Collins promoted to chief of police in Buxton
Kevin Collins has been with the department, most recently, since 2021 and as a former member of the York County Sheriff’s Department was named Deputy of the Year in 2020.
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In Westbrook, Hawkins is at home on the streets
Lacking a permanent residence, the self-proclaimed “adventurer” is not interested in shelters or any type of official assistance, preferring to take care of himself.
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Windham vet walking to all corners of U.S., finding big hearts along the way
Matt Dyer’s 5,871-mile journey has evolved from a fitness challenge to a “people challenge” motivated by the kind people he meets on his route.
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Lakes Region Sportsman: You can help out local farmers with a crow hunt
It started with a call from my old friend, Paul Bissonnette. Biz is a big bird hunter and loves wing shooting more than just about anything. We had hunted ducks before, but that was years ago. He told me that he knew a local farmer who was having troubles with crows getting into his feed […]
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Westbrook Families Feeding Families receives timely donation
The pantry, started in 2007 by school committee Chairperson Sue Salisbury to provide lunches for school programs, is low on supplies such as peanut butter and rice.
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Buxton food pantry founder steps down after 16 years
Joann Groder’s Buxton Community Food Co-op serves about 130 families a month and now will be under the directorship of longtime volunteer Jean Harmon.