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Food and Drink: Off-Beet Idea
No full textVery brief discussion of Harvest Maine, a company that aims to reduce food waste by purchasing previously unsalable ugly vegetables and transforming them into dips and spreads
Food and Drink: Full of Beans
No full textA brief introduction to Tootie\u27s Tempeh in Biddeford and its owner, Sarah Speare. Describes Speare\u27s inspiration for the business, the innovative soybean fermentation technique she believes gives her tempeh an improved flavor, and the culinary possibilities of the product
Maine Fauna A to Z: W is for Whitetails
No full textA visit to the Brownville property of Richard McMahon, who carries on a winter deer-feeding operation viewed and enjoyed by people from all over the world courtesy of YouTube. McMahon explains his love for deer and his urge to feed them. Online viewers of Brownville\u27s Food Pantry for Deer describe the calming effect they enjoy from watching the deer
Peaks Island Star : June 2023, Vol. 43, Issue 6
Get PDFThe Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island\u27s service agencies and other community news.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_pisn_2023/1005/thumbnail.jp
North by East: In with the New
No full textParagraph describing the twenty-third Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, mentioning selection criteria for the artists and the types of work on exhibit
Support Needed for Master Calendar Hearings
No full textTwo organizations that help asylum seekers, the Congolese Association of Maine (COCOMaine) and Hope Acts, are hoping to create a central office that could coordinate master calendar hearings. A master calendar hearing is an asylum seeker\u27s first hearing before a judge and it is critical that asylum seekers attend their scheduled hearing, whether in Boston (the nearest court to Maine) or remotely via WebEx. Because of language and technology barriers, many asylum seekers need assistance in order to access their hearing
Phuc Tran: Author, Teacher, Tattoo Artist
No full textProfile of Phuc Tran. Tran taught classical languages in middle and high schools in Maine and New York for years. He also owns a tattoo shop in Portland and has written a highly acclaimed novel titled Sigh, Gone about his family\u27s move to Pennsylvania from Vietnam in 1975. In this piece, Tran briefly discusses community, language, and how it feels being an Asian American in Maine
North by East: Sincerely, the Governor
No full textA brief article noting the release of the book In Other Words, Leadership: How a Young Mother\u27s Weekly Letters to Her Governor Helped Both Women Brave the First Pandemic Year, by Shannon Mullen (Steerforth Press). Describes the subject of the book, letters written between Maine governor Janet Mills and Maine resident Ashirah Knapp during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020
North by East: Need We Say Nor?
No full textA brief description of Cathie Pelletier\u27s new book Northeaster, about the storm known as the Blizzard of 1952, coupled with a discussion of Pelletier\u27s active disdain for the term nor\u27easter
Room With a View: Keeping it Working
No full textBrief essay about the importance of working waterfronts in Maine and efforts to protect them for the future