When I moved from Ohio to Maine a little more than a year ago, I didn’t expect to be talking with a Ukrainian woman about blinchiki and syrniki.

MONSON — Monson Free Public Library has been awarded an $11,000 Conservation for All grant from the Maine Community Foundation to further develop an outdoor gear library.

SHIRLEY — After losing our trail sled to fire we now have a replacement Expedition.

GREENVILLE — An Ecumenical Lenten Luncheon Series will be on Wednesdays in March at the Union Church in Greenville.

Recurring Events Mondays DEXTER: The Abbott Museum is open 10 a.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Ten years ago, the last squeaking sneakers, swishing baskets and roaring crowds could be heard echoing into the rafters of the Bangor Auditorium.

Justina Dill and Wendy Lorigan, teachers at Piscataquis Community Elementary School in Guilford, will be featured presenters at the annual S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Teaching Workshop to be held on Saturday, March 18 at University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast.

SANGERVILLE — A church in Piscataquis County is cooking up traditional dishes from Ukraine and raising funds to support the country as it nears the one-year anniversary of a long and devastating war with Russia.

Presentations of the Stations of the Cross are scheduled at parishes across Maine.

SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan Savings recently held their annual all employee meeting and recognition dinner.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The GFWC MIOSAC Club met on Feb.

By Ron Chase Mosquito Mountain has a very unappealing name.

SANGERVILLE — The Sangerville Historical Society holds its next meeting at 6:30 p.

By Kim Brawn It’s fleeting and precious and “of the essence” in climactic movie scenes.

By Charlie Eichacker, Maine Public Two credit rating agencies have just lowered their assessments of one of Maine’s biggest health care organizations, Northern Light Health, after it ended last year with an operating loss of more than $100 million because of a variety of staffing and operating challenges.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free individualized sessions, the Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 & over who are looking for a new career or returning to higher education.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — We are still in the midst of the 2022-23 school year but before you know it, another school year will be gone by.

Credit union representatives from across Maine came together Feb.