BELFAST — Artist Michele Ratté has recently relocated to Belfast from Vermont and is being featured as a guest artist at Local Color Gallery. Ratté’s work is informed by a life-long fascination…
Culture
Poem: Kendall Merriam
Life goes on, violent, sweet
your son, like my brother, Parker
took his own
unaware of the approaching storm
that threatened the Union
my head aches
…
share hopes and joys through art
ROCKLAND — Visit Rockland Public Library between Tuesday, Jan 19 -and Saturday, Feb 13 to pick up paper quilt supplies and help create a community quilt to display at the library.
With the…
Permanent lowering of excise tax and collaborative beer are shot in the arm
Ten months ago, Maine’s brewing industry came to a screeching halt the day after one of the biggest beer-drinking days of the year, St. Patrick’s Day, when the novel coronavirus pandemic prompted…
Readers and Weeders
One of the many ways the Belfast Garden Club contributes to the community is through their annual donation of horticultural and environmental books to the Belfast Free Library. Sometimes the books…
The Maine Photography Show (MPS), deadline for submissions is drawing near ... like next Friday, Jan. 22.
And the categories are ... Black and White, Color, Student, and the Special…
SOUTH THOMASTON — People's United Methodist Church will host a Takeaway Chili Supper on Saturday, Jan. 30.
Pick up will be between 4 - 5 p.m., at the Church, 13 Chapel Street, So.…
Quarantining starts another viral Facebook sensation
A number of Maine-started Facebook groups went viral with the COVID-19 virus pandemic in 2020, and now there’s one more to get a read on.
First there was Quarantine Karaoke, then Wine…
Projected opening date: Jan. 16
DAMARISCOTTA—Faced with the food limitations necessary for their own family, a baker and her husband have decided to open a completely gluten-free bakery and cafe at 77 Main Street in downtown in…
THOMASTON — Thomaston Public Library is now offering take-home projects for kids, made possible by a grant from The Anonimo Foundation.
Each week, the Library will have two types of…
Downloadable Bingo with prizes, do-it-yourself crafts, and book club set the agenda for home entertainment through Carver Memorial Library, in Searsport.
Winter…
The Strand Theatre continues to present new release films to stream from their website. Three of the films available thoughout January are The Weasel’s Tale, The Reason I Jump, and …
‘I have always been a creative person, and I always feel the need to create’
NORTHPORT — Jason Thurston is a Northport artist, using his drawing skills to draw Midcoast scenery on shells.
The idea to create art on shells came a few years ago when Thurston’s wife,…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
It was one sold out event after another at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor in 2020 – mind you, last year an audience of 50 equaled a sell out show. It was the year of a pandemic most of us had…
Markham Starr is a photographer/author and Suzanne Starr is a portrait artist
COREA—Markham and Suzanne Starr are two different artists inspired by the same source material—the Maine lobstering way of life. In 2011, Markham published a photography book titled Finest…
Calendar of Events at the Camden Public Library: January 2021
Friday, January 1 through Sunday,…
never seen before archive materials, gripping docu-thriller, all-access into a life
The Strand Theatre continues to present new release films to stream from their website. Three documentaries will be available throughout the month of January.
Coup 53 is the story…
‘considered an emerging issue of international concern’
On Thursday, Jan. 14, at 6 p.m., the Belfast Free Library and Friends of Sears Island will co-host a virtual presentation with Marine Scientist Abby Barrows titled, “Microplastic Pollution in…
The Maine Photography Show (MPS), has been the annual premier juried gallery show of photography in Maine for 16 years. Deadline for submissions is at the stroke of midnight on Friday, Jan. 22.…
Send us your signals of hope and brighter days ahead
Residents and business owners are spreading warmth and good cheer in their own creative and enterprising ways. We appreciate the peaceful cloak of winter, and rejoice in the lightness of the…
On Tuesday, United Midcoast Charities and Midcoast Habitat for Humanity received holidays gift from author and State Representative Vicki Doudera when she presented them with checks totaling $2,…
BINOCULARS, TELESCOPES AND THE DEEP SKY
Join Shawn Laatsch, director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center and Jordon Planetarium at the University of Maine, Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 6 p.m., as he takes participants on a guided tour of the…
UNION — Vose Library resumes its weekly Story Time program online, Wednesday, January 6.
This weekly family-friendly picture book story and conversation with Chloe Keller is held…
In business
NORTHPORT — Hana Thurston has been baking cakes for the last eight years, and formally launched her Hana Cakes business two or three years ago after always wanting to launch a cake business. …
try something new in the new year
The Camden Public Library invites you to “Jumpstart January” with a series of online programs created to help you try out something new in the new year.
The first two programs in early…
Formerly the Rotary Pizza restaurant, 10 Leland Street, Rockland
ROCKLAND—A fast-casual lunch and dinner spot opened this week called Maine Kebab, and owner Shane McGarvey and his executive chef, Ken Hynes, are already ahead of the curve in terms of issues that…
interview with Baez, virtual tour of the show, and other festivities and ‘mischief’
Tickets are on sale now for iconic singer-songwriter Joan Baez’s livestream event “An intimate evening with the artist in celebration of her 80th Birthday” on Saturday, Jan. 9, at 8:30 p.m.…
intimate details of drug addiction, homophobia, and medical establishment
The Strand Theatre continues to present films to stream from their website. Available throughout the month of December is the new documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, which explores…
Blueberry Moose a small retail shop at Watts Building, Thomaston
THOMASTON—Like so many enterprising crafter/artists before her, Jo Ann Hoppe, an artist and entrepreneur from South Thomaston, has made a career from her hobbies. Refusing to let a pandemic…
Maine is known for its lighthouses and the breathtaking seascapes surrounding them. In this new volume entitled Lighthouses of Maine: A Photographic Journey, photographer Dominic Trapani…
supporting the musical instrument lending library
SEARSPORT — Carver Memorial Library is auctioning a very special guitar donated by James Hyland, of the Makers Guild of Maine, according to the Library, in a news release.
The guitar is a…
For the holidays, we’re continuing our series to shine the spotlight on Maine craftspeople. It’s important to shop locally and support innovators and entrepreneurs who keep the creative…
SEARSPORT — Louise Seekins possesses enthusiasm for sewing — expected when one has been sewing for more than five decades — and uses her affinity for the craft to spread cheer and love to her…
Maine’s Entrepreneurs and Artists
SOUTH BRISTOL—Many Maine artists use the concept of lobster in their art, but Tenley Seiders, an artist from South Bristol, actually uses lobster claws, tails, and other parts of the shell in her…
VINALHAVEN — When Vinalhaven’s An Hanna was searching for collars for the sight hounds she raises, she looked for the best, highest quality collar possible that looked good and would keep the dogs…
Offering light breakfast, local lunch favorites and fresh lobster rolls
OWLS HEAD—Bill Clifford, a chef who once ran Bill’s Original Kitchen in Kittery, has revived his one-man operation and recently opened his new kitchen at Knox County Regional Airport.
…
‘Every time you walk by a piece of my furniture you will think of the ocean’
FRIENDSHIP — Duff Powell, a resident of Friendship, has been an artist and craftsman his entire life, and is sharing his creations made from driftwood found on Maine’s islands and coastlines…
‘The best part of online sales is the reach to people who may otherwise not come across my work in person’
ROCKLAND — During fishing season, Rockland’s John Coppola can be found on waters from Casco Bay to Penobscot Bay chartering fishing trips for striped bass, bluefish and bluefin tunas.
…
The book world rarely sees a new book with such an unusual history as “Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith,” published by Down East Books…
searching for the twelve best, underappreciated Christmas songs ever recorded
The Strand Theatre continues to present films to stream from their website. Throughout the month of December, the 2014 documentary Jingle Bell Rocks! takes the viewer on a search for the…
delving deeply into effects of sunlight on landscape with Jeff Shula
BELFAST — “Shula 2.0,” the new exhibit in the Kramer Gallery of the Belfast Free Library, features recent works by Jeff Shula. The exhibit will be on display through January 2021.
Since…
‘our special Christmas gift to you’
For the holiday season, the Strand Theatre presents a dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’ classic story A Christmas Carol by House Manager Liz McLeod. The reading is available…
Organizers of a new little library submitted the following:
As the holiday season gets underway, and we’re all urged to stay under wraps, a new Little Library in Spruce Head has…
For the holidays, we’re continuing our series to shine the spotlight on Maine craftspeople. It’s important to shop locally and support innovators and entrepreneurs who keep the creative…
‘bringing out the very best’
CAMDEN — The Camden Public Library announces a “gift worthy” book sale just in time for holiday shopping. This special sale will run Monday through Saturday, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., during the…
neighboring families compete ‘with hilarious and catastrophic results’
The Belfast Maskers will crown their 2020 season with an online holiday show. The short comedy Let There be Lights!, by Dwayne Yancey, is about neighboring families who vie to put up the…
The work of Camden-based artist Donald Rainville has been selected by Ambassador John L. Carwile to hang in the U.S. Embassy in Latvia as part of the Art in Embassies (AIE) program.
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‘stylized sets that create a surreal cult atmosphere while paying tribute to film classics’
The Strand Theatre continues to offer films to stream from their website. Offered throughout the month of December is a new Canadian comedy The Twentieth Century.
This story of an…
For #Giving Tuesday, a story on giving back to the restaurant industry
APPLETON—Maine Cater, a recruitment company dedicated to serving New England’s food and beverage industry, has come up with an idea to provide local “restaurateurs, employers, job seekers, and FOH…
