ORR’S ISLAND — Rev. Harold Hallock will preside over the service Sunday, July 5, at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays, through September 27.

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Roman Catholic leaders in the early voting state of Iowa implored candidates for president Thursday to take up Pope Francis ‘ call for “profound political courage” by focusing their campaigns as much on improving the environment and income inequality as they have on opposing gay marriage and abortion in past elections. […]

BY MEADOW RUE MERRILL BY MEADOW RUE MERRILL I never once felt as if my mother were dying. Perhaps she was trying to protect me. Perhaps I was in denial, despite knowing that the cancer had spread from her liver to her bones and that in such cases less than 2 percent of people survive […]

BRUNSWICK — East Brunswick Baptist Church is holding two events to raise funds to send some of its youth to camp. The events are: Spaghetti Dinner and Ice Cream Social, 5 p.m. Saturday, June 27. Movie Night and Ice Cream Social, 6 p.m. Saturday, June 27. Both events are held at East Brunswick Baptist Church […]

WISCASSET — Strawberries are ripening in the fields, soon to be transformed into the luscious shortcakes piled high with real whipped cream, as well as chocolate dipped berries, jam, and ice cream cones, that have come to be expected from the crew at St. Philip’s Church, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset. The event will take place […]

BRUNSWICK — A free hitting clinic presented by former Boston Red Sox outfielder Bernie Carbo and the Diamond Club Ministry will take place from 9-10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 4, at Brunswick High School. There will be free autographs and Carbo will be selling his biography, “Saving Bernie Carbo.” The next day, Sunday, July 5, Carbo […]

ORR’S ISLAND — Rev. Ellen Shaver will preside over the service Sunday, June 28, at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/ Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays, through September 27.

VATICAN CITY Philadelphia church officials said Thursday they’re confident about preparations for Pope Francis’ visit at the three-month homestretch, having raised more than twothirds of the $45 million needed and lining up 6,000 of 10,000 volunteers. Archbishop Charles Chaput and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter wrapped up four days of talks at the Vatican ahead of […]

Twenty-one years ago, when my high-school sweetheart and I stood before family and friends in my grandparent’s flower-festooned church and pledged to love one another till death us do part, my idea of love resembled the stock photos found in ready-made frames. The laughing children. The handin hand beach walks. The doting grandparents. In no […]

BRUNSWICK — A free hitting clinic presented by former Boston Red Sox outfielder Bernie Carbo and the Diamond Club Ministry will take place from 9-10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 4, at Brunswick High School. There will be free autographs and Carbo will be selling his biography, “Saving Bernie Carbo.” The next day, Sunday, July 5, Carbo […]