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Bryant Pond lodge gets solar panels

BRYANT POND — The University of Maine 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Bryant Pond has installed a major solar system in its first year-round building that will help it become a net-zero user, or perhaps a positive generator, of electricity. All it will take to start is a flip of the switch, said Josh […]

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Pet feature: Pet furniture business comes back from devastating fire

BRYANT POND — It took Randy and Brenda Malm years to build their business handcrafting fine wooden pet furniture.  In February, it took fire just 40 minutes to burn their Classic Pet Beds workshop to the ground.  Tens of thousands of dollars worth of wood, equipment, tools and nearly-finished product, plus the two-story building itself, […]

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Happenings at Whitman Memorial Library

BRYANT POND — Whitman Memorial Library will have new library hours beginning Tuesday, June 14. The library will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. on  Tuesdays and Thursdays. Patrons were not using the evening hours, so the board of trustees voted for the change. Artwork from Woodstock Elementary School third-graders is currently on exhibit. […]

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6th annual Youth Field Day May 31

BRYANT POND — The Bryant Pond 4-H Camp & Learning Center, in partnership with Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, will host the 6th annual Youth Field Day on June 4. Admission is free. Lunch will be available for a minimal charge, or visitors may bring their own. The event will be held rain […]

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Tornado confirmed at Woodstock pond

WOODSTOCK — Two confirmed tornadoes touched down in Bryant Pond village and Embden on Wednesday afternoon during severe thunderstorms. National Weather Service meteorologist Dan St. Jean said Thursday that on The Enhanced Fujita Scale of tornado intensity, the twister that crossed North Pond and frightened Bryant Pond residents Jane Chandler and Bill and Nancy Uber, […]

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Woodstock Elementary launching 5K

BRYANT POND — Woodstock Elementary School will host the first ever Produce Pursuit 5k Run/Walk and 1 mile Kid’s Fun Run on Saturday, June 11. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Fruit and Veggies Program that Woodstock implemented into their school three years ago. The program started in 2008 when Woodstock School received […]

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UMaine 4-H camp demo at wildlife park

GRAY — Staff from the UMaine 4-H Camp at Bryant Pond will be featured presenters from 11 a.m. to  2 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, at the Maine Wildlife Park on Route 26. For over 50 years, the University of Maine 4-H Camp & Learning Center (formerly the Maine Conservation School) has strengthened children’s relationship […]

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Contra dances to kick off

Bill Olson on guitar and on fiddle (pictured) are set to kick off the 5th Saturday Norway contra dance series at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, in the Norway Grange. A pre-dance public supper will be provided by the Heywood Club from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Norway Grange on Whitman Street. The […]

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Face Time: Rebecca Chandler: Doing good, all over

Rebecca Chandler spent two years in Mongolia with the Peace Corps and this month the Telstar High School grad is one of five winners of the 2010 Sarlo Foundation Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, an award out of the International Rescue Committee for whom she’s worked all over the world. Right now in Pakistan, she […]