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Bowdoin College to hold TEDx event featuring student talks
The TEDxBowdoinCollege club is hosting an event from 4-7 p.m. Saturday, April 6, in the Visual Arts Center’s Kresge Auditorium to showcase students’ own TED talks as well as professors and alumni of the college. TED began in 1984 as a conference co-founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks where technology, entertainment and design […]
Brunswick board to weigh challenge to proposed housing development
Two weeks after the initial public hearing, the Zoning Board is set to issue a decision on Thursday night on the challenge filed against affordable housing project Wilbur’s Woods.
Author-to-author event at UUCB benefits literacy education
Maine writer and memoirist Phuc Tran (author of “Sigh, Gone”) and poet Gibson Fay-LeBlanc will share the stage at 7 p.m. on April 27 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick for a fundraiser to support literacy education. The evening will feature Tran and Fay-LeBlanc reading from their work and in conversation about their inspirations […]
Rep. Arford and Councilor Updegraph to hold office hours at Brunswick library
Rep. Poppy Arford, D-Brunswick, and Brunswick Town Councilor Sande Updegraph will hold constituent office hours from 9:30-11 a.m. on April 13 at the Curtis Memorial Library in the second-floor seminar room 205. The office hours will provide local residents a chance to meet with their elected officials and discuss local and state government matters. Arford […]
Trout Unlimited meeting will feature screening of fish passage documentary
The Merrymeeting Bay Chapter of Trout Unlimited will feature at its next meeting a free screening of the documentary feature film, “A Watershed Moment.” The film tells the story of an all-hands effort involving fishermen, three coastal Maine communities, nonprofit organizations, and state and federal management agencies to restore fish passage throughout the Bagaduce River […]
Coastal Journal Meetings: April 5-12
Brunswick Mon. 4/8 4 p.m. Appointments Committee Town Hall Tue. 4/9 6 p.m. Planning Board Zoom, Town Hall Wed. 4/10 10 a.m. Staff Review Committee Zoom, Town Hall Thu. 4/11 6:30 p.m. Budget/CIP Workshop Zoom, Town Hall Harpswell Mon. 4/8 7 p.m. Recreation Committee Town Office Tue. 4/9 2 p.m. Planning Board Site Visit Town […]
Bowdoin College community shaken by student’s death
Authorities are awaiting autopsy results on Qingyang Zhan, a 20-year-old junior whose body was found in a parking lot in Topsham early Sunday. Police say there is no threat to the public.
View the solar eclipse with help from Curtis Memorial Library
Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick will stream the eclipse on a TV in the atrium from 2:15-4:45 p.m. Monday, April 8. Anyone in Brunswick or Harpswell will be able to see the eclipse, with the maximum eclipse at 3:31 p.m. Viewers in this area will see about 97% of totality, according to the library. It […]
One year later, Evan Gershkovich’s Russian detention drags on
Moscow authorities tacked on three more months of prison time as the American journalist marked one year behind bars.