After several months of planning, Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program and the Brunswick School District are opening a small community food pantry at the Coffin School building on Barrows Street in Brunswick. The pantry, located in Room 9, runs Thursdays from 3-5 p.m. The service is available to Brunswick School District students, parents and guardians. […]

I expect that most people have found making a charitable donation mostly gets you lots of additional solicitations. Lately, these have been getting fatter and heavier as well. It’s to the point that they have become wasteful of the soliciting organizations’ funds, and a problem for us to recycle. The worst of those things are […]

A Sagadahoc County team of community partners was selected by Gov. Janet Mills and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to receive a $375,000 Maine Working Communities Challenge grant that will be used to improve mental health in local youth. In a press release, the Sagadahoc team spokesperson, Jamie Dorr, executive director of Midcoast Youth Center, […]

Having recently emerged successfully from a battle with bladder cancer, and finding myself with a substantial collection of unused catheters, I set about determining what to do with them. Being medical supplies (and in this case rubber tubes), they could not be recycled, even had I wanted to do that. I also was not about […]