HARPSWELL — The Rev. Gil Birney will be the guest speaker at All Saints Chapel on Sunday, Aug. 31. Worship begins at 9 a.m. Each week, from June through September, All Saints’ Chapel on Orr’s Island invites area clergy as guest ministers for its Sunday services. The chapel is located at 9 Cooper Lane and […]

HARPSWELL — The last service of the summer season at All Saints by the Sea on Washington Avenue, Bailey Island, will be Sunday, Aug. 31, at 9:30 a.m. The Rev. Bennet Barnes of Brunswick will be the celebrant. Herb Taylor of Portland is the organist.

BATH — All area students are invited to attend a blessing of backbacks for those returning to school in September. The blessing will take place during children’s church at 9:30 a.m., in the Grace Episcopal Church Chapel at 1100 Washington St. Grace Children’s Church is a gathering for pre-school and elementary school children and their […]

Despite trials, former reporter says God still working for good I t’s strange how our plans and God’s unfold in ways we least expect. Seventeen years ago this summer, I made the difficult decision to resign as a reporter for The Times Record. I was three years out of college, married, and a new mom […]

RICHVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The Amish are famous for their barn raisings, when an entire community turns out to help a neighbor. In northern New York, members of an extended Amish family plan to hold a “garage raising” for the couple who returned two kidnapped Amish girls to their home. Jeffrey and Pamela Stinson tell […]

FREEPORT — The Warehouse Worship, a new nondenominational church, is now meeting Fridays at Freeport Community Library. The name Warehouse Worship comes from Matthew 6:19-21, where the Bible tells us to store up our treasures in heaven, not here on earth. The church leadership believes the way to do this is to be a “church […]

The suicide of beloved comedian Robin Williams is a grim reminder that depression leads too many Americans to make that tragic choice. In 2011 38,300 Americans killed themselves — more than triple the nation’s 11,100 murders. A stunning one million Americans attempted suicide, half of whom were hurt badly enough to be treated in hospitals. […]

HARPSWELL — The Rev. Stephen Lane, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, will be the celebrant at the weekly summer service at All Saints by the Sea, Washington Avenue, Bailey Island, on Sunday, Aug. 24, at 9:30 a.m. The Rev. Lane has been bishop of Maine since 2008; previous to that he served in […]

Cody DeWitt sold his family home and was packing up his household for a move to Illinois where he was about to start a new job with Samaritan Ministries International, a nonprofit alternative to medical insurance. Unlike insurance in which policyholders send premiums to their insurance companies, Samaritan Ministries’ members send their monthly payment — […]

DAYTON, Ohio The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has told Catholic schools not to do the popular “ice bucket challenge” if it benefits the ALS Association, because that group includes embryonic stem cell research as part of its fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig’s disease. “The beneficiary of the ice-bucket challenge funds a study […]