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Allagash Lake to Indian Stream

Are you up for an exciting nontraditional canoe trip within the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW)? The Allagash Lake to Indian Stream adventure takes in the most remote and historic sections of the waterway. Allagash Stream is one of my favorite stretches of the entire AWW. It features small water canoeing with a surprise around every bend in the stream.

Plastic is everywhere in agriculture now, but not easily recycled

Ron Harwood gardens in five gallon plastic buckets, many many plastic buckets at his farm in Harmony. Modern farming and gardening use a lot of plastic, not only in buckets, but in bale wrapping, row-crop mulching, greenhouse and high-tunnel covers, feed and fertilizer bags, produce bags and totes, seedling and planting trays and so forth.

Author talk and weed walk at Guilford Memorial Library

The Guilford Memorial Library is pleased to be hosting local educator and author Michele Maingot Cabral. She will be doing a presentation about her books series “Waking Up From the American Dream” at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22

Abbot Historical Society meets Aug. 28 at the Washington School

At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28 the Abbot Historical Society will be meeting at the historic Washington School (pictured) located just outside of Abbot at the corner of Route 15 and the Howard Siding Road.

Monson Museum to host Children’s Heritage Day

Children's Heritage Day will be held at the Monson Museum on Saturday, Aug. 18, from 9 to 11 a.m.

Calendar of events

Upcoming events around the region.

Center Theatre releases new mission statement

The Center Theatre for the Performing Arts recently announced that they updated their mission statement to more clearly reflect their community work. The theatre’s updated mission is “to make arts, culture, education, and entertainment accessible to our rural communities.”

Church honors Grant for her years of service

On Sunday, Aug. 5, the Brownville Community Church honored Violet Grant for her many years of service to the church by presenting her with the title Deacon Emeritus.

Governor waives fees for residents to go to Maine parks

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is waiving state park fees for residents as a show of appreciation. His office said that day use fees will be waived for residents at Maine State Parks and Historic Sites from Saturday, Aug. 11 through Labor Day.

Brownville residents can sign up for free smoke alarms

The American Red Cross of Maine and the Brownville Fire Department are teaming up to make town residents safer by installing free smoke alarms in their homes and teaching them about fire safety on Saturday, Aug. 18.

Third annual Maine Red Hot Dog Festival returns to Dexter on Saturday

The Maine Red Hot Festival will be back in downtown Dexter on Saturday, Aug. 11 as the third annual event will feature activities, with free admission, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. -- rain or shine.

Greenville to celebrate annual Maine Forest Heritage Days this weekend

The 27th annual Maine Forest Heritage Days is scheduled for Aug. 9-12. The weekend includes a bus tour through Maine’s working forest, a craft fair, carriage rides, chainsaw carving, a woodsman demonstration featuring chopping and ax throwing and the regional Game of Logging competition.

The Maine outdoors tradition that some say has gotten out of hand

Along the banks of those ponds, they may also find a few dozen stashed canoes left behind by their owners. The unspoken rules of the Maine custom are that anyone can use them, as long as they are returned in the same condition as they were borrowed.

Medicare 101 session Aug. 15 in D-F

Leslie Lizotte, aging and disability resource center specialist from the Eastern Area Agency on Aging, will be holding a Medicare 101 class at the Piscataquis County office building (Peaks House) located at 163 East Main Street from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Aug. 15.

Can trees be part of growing our food?

In the cool and pleasant basement of the Abbott Memorial Library Friday evening (Aug. 3) for the monthly gathering of Dexter Dover Area Towns in Transition (DDATT), about two dozen area people watched the short film “A Farm for the Future” in which the foundations of modern agriculture are questioned by a young farmer trying to figure out how to make her family’s land productive and profitable.

Free Frogtown Puppeteers show at Maine Red Hot Dog Festival

Bring your inner child and see a show for free. The Wayside Grange and Theatre is a proud sponsor of the free Frogtown Puppeteers show at the Maine Red Hot Dog Festival in downtown Dexter at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11. Great entertainment for all ages.

Our Lady of the Snows’ kitchen ministry receives Matthew 25 Award

DEXTER -- Catholic Charities’ Parish Social Ministry program presented its annual Matthew 25 Award on Sunday, July 29 to Our Lady of the Snows’ kitchen ministry “Our Lady’s Kitchen.”

Parkman Baptist Church celebrates bicentennial

In August of 1818, a group of 15 settlers chartered a Baptist Church in Parkman. Soon thereafter, Zenas Hall was ordained at the home of Elias Merrill and became the church’s first minister. In 1831 the meeting house where Parkman Baptist Church currently gathers was built and in 1833 a bell was installed in the belfry.

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