Chebeague Island Thu. 7/6 6 p.m. Select Board Town Hall Tue. 7/11 6 p.m. School Committee Town Hall Wed. 7/12 6 p.m. Select Board Town Hall Cumberland Mon. 7/10 7 p.m. Town Council Town Hall Falmouth Thu. 7/6 Noon Recycling/Energy Advisory Town Hall Mon. 7/10 7 p.m. Town Council Zoom, Town Hall Tue. 7/11 6:30 […]
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SAD 51 board will ask voters to approve North Yarmouth land purchase
The proposed site for a new school at 80 Gray Road was part of a plan voters rejected last year.
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Currie to perform at Skyline Farm in North Yarmouth
Folk-inspired musician Carolyn Currie of Cumberland will perform in concert Sunday, July 9, at Skyline Farm in North Yarmouth. Currie has received numerous awards and national recognition for her original music. She has also played with artists such as Jonathan Edwards, Tom Rush, Lucy Kaplansky, Cheryl Wheeler and Richard Shindell, and has performed festivals at […]
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Food drive at Falmouth pantry at farmers market
A food drive for the Falmouth Food Pantry will take place at each Wednesday farmers market in Falmouth this month. Donations of non-perishable food items and cash will be accepted at the market through July. The Cumberland & Falmouth Farmers Market will match cash donations up to $250. The Falmouth market is held from 10 […]
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Endangered plovers return to Chebeague Island
Piping plovers have returned to Chebeague Island for the first time in 40 years, with a pair nesting at Indian Point, according to the Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust. The eggs have hatched and the land trust and the Indian Island Association are working with Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Maine Audubon to monitor […]
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People and Business: June 28
Hires, appointments, promotions Blaine Grimes, chief ventures officer for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and chairperson of the Portland Development Corporation, has been appointed to Spinnaker Trust‘s board of directors. She is also a board member of GMRI’s True Fin Seafood and was previously a trustee and chairperson of the Maine Venture Fund. Hilary […]
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Dog days of summer come early to Cumberland
The state’s largest dog show, the Chickadee Classic, is held at the Cumberland Fairgrounds.
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Northern Meetings: June 29-July 6
Cumberland Wed. 7/5 9:30 a.m. Communications Committee Town Hall Wed. 7/5 7 p.m. Lands/Conservation Commission Town Hall Freeport Thu. 6/29 6 p.m. Downtown Task Force Zoom Mon. 7/3 6:30 p.m. Board of Appeals Town Hall Tue. 7/4 6 p.m. Library Board of Trustees Library Wed. 7/5 6 p.m. Planning Board Town Hall Thu. 7/6 6 […]
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Author to speak on Maine women’s suffrage leader in Cumberland
Author Anne Gass of Gray will be the special guest of the Cumberland Historical Society Wednesday, June 28, for a talk on Florence Brooks Whitehouse, a novelist, painter, vocalist and mother of three who joined the women’s suffrage movement in 1913. Gass, Whitehouse’s great-granddaughter, is the author of “Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse […]
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Hohl, Lichter hope to advance SAD 51 school project
The Cumberland residents were the top vote getters in the three-way race for two seats, and the Cumberland-North Yarmouth school district’s budget is approved in both towns.