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Good Things From Maine: Animal Crossing
No full textVery brief description of Serendipitous Dragonfly (formerly Jean\u27s Serendipity) in Houlton, Maine\u27s only pet store north of Bangor. New owner Katie Sloat describes attractions she has added since purchasing the store from her parents
Food and Drink: Tip-Top Shape
No full textA review of Rio\u27s, a heptagonal restaurant in Searsport featuring the cuisine of chef Gary Cooper
Meet Angelina
No full textAngelina Klouthis, the Director of Innovation and Strategy for the Bureau of Employment Services at the Maine Department of Labor, introduces herself and shares some information about her professional background, which includes stints working abroad and obtaining a master\u27s degree in Bogota, Columbia. She also discusses her current work, which includes overseeing the Healthcare Career Navigators programs
Bakhita Saabino Elected Leader of South Sudanese Community of Maine
No full textBakhita Saabino is the first woman to be elected the leader of the nonprofit South Sudanese Community of Maine, the oldest African community association in Maine, founded in 1994. Saabino, a teacher in the Portland Public Schools, has plans to address housing needs and hopes to collaborate with officials at the school, city, and state levels
Everything You\u27ve Always Wanted to Know About Heating with Wood but Didn\u27t Know Who to Ask
No full textFive collections of snippets inform the reader on the basics of wood and woodstoves: Know Your Stoves reviews five types of woodstoves; First Time Swinger demonstrates how to chop firewood; Wood to the Wise discusses different types of wood for burning; Tinder Terms defines terms such as cord and kiln-dried ; and Stack Wood Like a Pro details three styles of woodpile
The Legacy of Islesboro\u27s Charles Dana Gibson
No full textA profile of the painter and illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the famous Gibson Girl ideal, and of his great-grandson, Abe Goodale, also a painter. In 1904, Gibson purchased land on 700 Acre Island off the coast of Islesboro and spent every summer at his estate there until his death in 1944, often painting island scenes, family portraits, and landscapes. Goodale works out of his great-grandfather\u27s 700 Acre Island studio, painting Maine fishermen
North By East: The Sky is Falling
No full textA brief profile of retired science teacher Jon Wallace and his quest to discover micrometeorites, minute mineral particles which fall to earth from space
Good Things from Maine: Need for Beads
No full textParagraph describing the new Museum of Beadwork, opened by cofounder Heather Kahn and curator Kristina Skillin next to Caravan Beads in Portland. Accompanying snippets offer facts about beads and the museum\u27s collection
Good Things from Maine: Stranger Things
No full textCofounder Misty Lane discusses Maine\u27s Odd and Unusual Show, a craft fair exclusively for purveyors of weird objects and abnormal crafts
Maine Homes: Opportunity Knocks?
No full textA discussion of the door at the entrance to Papi, a Puerto Rican restaurant on Exchange Street. Describes how the restaurant\u27s installation of antique doors from San Juan has provoked conflict with Portland\u27s standards of historic preservation and sparked discourse about equity in historic representation