WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing additional flexibilities for producers to file on acres with failed crops or crops that were prevented from planting because of extreme weather events. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is adding the flexibilities for Notice of Loss on insured and uninsured crops to enable service […]

GREENWOOD — The Greenwood Farmers’ Market, a year-round market, will resume its every Friday schedule beginning on July 10. Since the winter, the market has been held every other Friday, which was extended beyond the usual transition back to every week. Located at the original Greenwood town hall building on Rte. 26, Locke Mills, the […]

PORTLAND — AARP Maine is seeking nominations for its 2020 AARP Andrus Award for Community Service, which honors those individuals who are sharing their experience, talent and skills to enrich the lives of their community members.  The annual award is named after AARP’s founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, who founded AARP in 1958 at the […]

AUBURN — The City of Auburn received notice from the Maine Forest Service that it has been approved for a 2020 Project Canopy assistance grant made available through the USDA Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program. The $8,000 grant will allow Auburn to educate homeowners with street ash trees about the Emerald Ash Borer […]

BRIDGTON — The Bridgton Historical Society announces that its museum on Gibbs Avenue in downtown Bridgton will be open Tuesday through Saturday this summer, observing precautions based on the Association of Maine Archives and Museums’ COVID-19 Prevention Recommendations for Archives and Museums. There will be no more than five guests admitted at a time, they […]

LEWISTON — Promise Early Education Center, 269 Bates St., has received $215,308 through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The funds will support Head Start services to low-income children under the age of 5 in the Lewiston/Auburn area. Promise Early Education Center will utilize funding to provide summer programming to 45 Rising-K […]

RANGELEY — Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust has launched the Community Conservation Corps (CCC) this summer, creating jobs for people, continuing stewardship of conserved lands, and extending stewardship practices beyond the 14,000 acres of conserved lands. The CCC will further RLHT’s mission while increasing the region’s economic resilience by completing projects such as trail work, watere […]

FRYEBURG — Fryeburg Academy has announced that Dawson Jones ’20 has been named a 2020 Mitchell Scholar, selected from more than 1,400 applicants. The scholarship was created in honor of former Sen. George J. Mitchell and marks its 25-year anniversary this year. Mitchell Scholars exemplify the characteristics of scholarship, leadership and commitment to the community […]

ROCHESTER, New York — The following local residents made the dean’s list at Rochester Institute of Technology for the spring semester. Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for dean’s list if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of “Incomplete”, “D” or “F”; and they have registered […]

PORTLAND — The Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute graduated the third class of program participants in its history — including more than 150 young women from 36 high schools, spanning all 16 Maine counties. The graduations occurred during two Year-End Celebration events that took place by webinar to respect social-distancing guidelines. More than 750 students, […]