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Bath Housing announces 3 new board members

Bath Housing and Development Corporation recently announced three new members of its board. Roberta Jordan served in various capacities over the years as a librarian at the Patten Free Library and for 20 years was the school manager at the K-8 Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb. She also worked as a land protection […]

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Morse High School senior attends Girls Nation leadership summit in D.C.

Morse High School senior Grace Tetreault is representing Maine as one of two delegates in Washington, D.C., this week at the American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation. American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation is a weeklong event that gives participants a firsthand experience with practical insight into how the federal government works. More than 7,000 young women […]

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The Conversation: How book-banning campaigns have changed the lives and education of librarians – they now need to learn how to plan for safety and legally protect themselves

THE CONVERSATION — Despite misconceptions and stereotypes – ranging from what librarians Gretchen Keer and Andrew Carlos have described as the “middle-aged, bun-wearing, comfortably shod, shushing librarian” to the “sexy librarian … and the hipster or tattooed librarian” – library professionals are more than book jockeys, and they do more than read at story time. They […]

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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Return of the puffins

A tiny, seemingly nondescript, barren atoll located in outer Muscongus Bay, Eastern Egg Rock, is one of a handful of locations along the Maine coast where Atlantic puffins come to nest. It hasn’t always been that way. The colorful seabirds stopped returning to the rock around 1890. A variety of circumstances had driven them from […]