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Historical Society Opens Contest to Students

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While the schoolhouse at the Waldoborough Historical Society is not open yet for the season, the trustees know that parents and students alike are working diligently at home to complete schoolwork. The society would like to offer students a research and writing challenge with the opportunity to win a $25 gift card to the location of their choosing. Students of all ages are encouraged to participate and the contest will be judged by grouping grades together: 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12.

Grow Knowledge from Home with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

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Connecting people to plants and nature is at the heart of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ mission—a connection that’s now more important than ever. To that end, “CMBG at Home,” the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ new online collection of classes, tours, blog posts, articles, photos, and Facebook groups, ensures that garden lovers can “grow” their knowledge from home.

Pumpkinfest & Regatta Opens 2020 T-Shirt Artist Competition

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The Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta invites Maine artists to submit a design for this year’s official festival T-shirt. The deadline to submit a design entry is Monday, June 22. A $500 prize will be awarded to the artist whose design is selected.

Alna Selectman Compares Voters to White Nationalists

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Alna Second Selectman Doug Baston recently blamed local private schools and their faculty for a “secret campaign” to oust a fellow selectman and compared voters who backed the campaign to anti-Semites and white nationalists.

Merry Barn Book Lending Program

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Although schools and libraries are closed, the Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat encourages children to continue reading, writing, and creating. To facilitate, Merry Barn is lending books to children in the Midcoast area and will curate a collection based on kids’ wishes, use gloves and wipes to sanitize books, and leave the books on the porch by the side entrance of the barn.

LCTV Saturday Night

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This week on Talk’n Town Talk, LCTV’s Larry Sidelinger sits down with Waldoboro town manager Julie Keizer, shellfish buyer Abden Simmons, and shellfish harvester Glen Melvin, to discuss what the clam industry means to Waldoboro, and how the industry is surviving COVID-19.

Easter at St. Patrick’s

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Stepping inside the vestibule of the historic nave at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Newcastle is like stepping inside a ruby. Two tall windows flank the small room, both stained a rich red. There is a guest book on a table, a donation box. A snow shovel stands in a corner.

ONE-UPMANSHIP

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We see a lot of one-upmanship going on as the people of our county respond to the coronavirus.

Melanie Juniper-Lynn Benner

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Jennifer and Joshua Benner of Washington are pleased to announce the arrival of their baby girl, Melanie Juniper-Lynn Benner.

Commentary: A Public Act

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This is my Easter story.

Up early this morning to get to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Brunswick to photograph the Easter Mass. St. John’s is not in Lincoln County, but power outages prevented the service from taking place in St. Patrick’s in Newcastle. St. Patrick’s is the historic church that I have been photographing.

County Seeks Volunteers to Shop for People in Quarantine

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The Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency wants to help those people in Lincoln County affected by Gov. Janet Mills’ recent executive order requiring anyone returning to the state of Maine to self-quarantine for 14 days.


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