OPEN 9am to 3pm
Tuesday - Friday
CLOSED Monday
Information Center is open 24/7.
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Bucksport Bay Farmers' Market is Open Every Thursday 2PM to 5PM
Next to the Post Office
Market is open through the end of October!
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Playing at the Alamo Theatre...
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October 28 - 30, 2016
Friday &
Saturday at
6 & 8:20pm
Sunday at
2 & 6pm
116 minutes
PG-13
This is the official Swedish submission to the next Academy Awards Foreign Language film competition in 2017!
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A Century of Movies at the Alamo
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Every third Sunday of the month at
6pm through November, the Alamo is going to show a different film from a different decade that the Alamo has served our community. The schedule is as follows:
November 20: Fargo (1996)
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Fright at the Fort
October
28th & 29th
5:30PM to 9PM
For more details please
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Story Time at Buck Memorial Library
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The Buck Memorial Library on Main Street offers a free story time each Wednesday from 10:30AM to 11AM.
Children of all ages are welcome.
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Free Small Business Advising for Bucksport Bay Area
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Thinking about starting a business? Or do you already own one? There's a new small business resource for the Bucksport Bay area ready to help you with everything from starting, to maintaining and growing your business. The business advising is confidential, offered at no charge and provided by the Maine Small Business Development Centers.
November 4
December 2
Bangor Savings Bank
89 Main Street
Bucksport
By appointment only
Please contact
Better Egner at 207.664.2990
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Crafters wanted
30th Annual
BHS Craft Fair
Saturday, November 19th
Seeking Crafters
Please contact:
Matt Morrison
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BEGINNER-FRIENDLY
Healing Hatha Yoga
Tuesdays 4-5pm
Beth Wright Cancer Resource Center, Ellsworth FREE
Tuesdays 6:30-7:30 p.m.
OCC, Orland
$12/class
Wednesdays
3:30-4:30pm
Bucksport Regional Health Center ($12)
Thursdays 1-2pm
Beth Wright Cancer Resource Center Ellsworth FREE
(No class Nov 3.)
Discounts for first responders
All classes FREE to Beth Wright Center clients
All classes are for adults and teens. Anyone under 18 must have a signed waiver from their parent or guardian. Children under 13 are only permitted by special permission from the instructor. Mats and props are provided and no yoga experience is necessary.
More details online
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Wicked good
The eighth annual Ghostport was a true success. Thank you to all of the vendors, volunteers, sponsors and everyone who came out on a rainy day!
The fireworks were postponed due to hazardous weather conditions, so come out and enjoy them this weekend--perhaps head over to Fright at the Fort first!
In this week's newsletter, we share news of a free workshop, free business advising sessions, and marketing mini-grants for small businesses.
Also in this edition, a call for crafters, yoga schedule updates, and an invitation to participate in a community service fair at Bucksport High School.
More about all of this--and more!--below.
We hope your week is full of treats. Stay safe, have fun and...send us your news!
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Bucksport High School would like to hold a Community Service Fair, November 10th.
They need at least ten organizations to commit to taking part. BHS principal, Bill Tracy is collaborating with the Chamber and Cheri Domina, the director Great Pond Mountain Trust so our organizations have a chance for some one-on-one time with potential volunteers. Please contact the chamber if you would like to take advantage of this opportunity. We need your reply by Nov 1st for the school to be able to shift the student's schedules. For more information, contact us at 469-6818 or email.
From Principal Tracy:
Dear Potential Community Partner,
We are looking
to increase students'
knowledge about
all the amazing
opportunities that exist in
our local area to
meet their community service graduation requirement
of 40 hours.
The key is
that we want their experience to take them far beyond the idea of meeting a requirement and i
nstead, begin to create a support system
that benefits student and community growth. This is
where you come in!
On Thursday, November 10
th,
we will be hosting a Communi
ty Service Fair at BHS.
We hope
that you will join us by having a table at our school from 11:00-
12:30, and showing students
the ways they can help your organization serve the community.
Our plan is to have 8
th
through
12
th
graders visit your tables and learn about the unique opportunities
that are available. The
more engaging
, welcoming
and open your space is, the better! S
tudents should be able to sign
up to receive more information, set up times to meet with you at your location and begin to build
the groundwork for a mutual relationship that benefits both parties.
Click
this link to find a "Helpful Hints" sheet (
.pdf) that out
lines some of the information you will
need to best access our students. Included on the sheet are
athletic season dates, vacation
days,
daily schedule times and tips on what type of a work environment and guidelines
we have for
community service work.
We hope that you will truly consider being part of this event!
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I know you have all heard the saying, " it takes a village to raise a child" well apparently it takes a town plus all the surrounding towns in at least a 30 mile radius to haunt a Ghostport! I am eternally grateful to the people who step up and help out! We had Ghostport ghouls from Bucksport, Orland, Winterport, Verona Island, Brewer, Castine, Searsport and beyond! And that is just your volunteers. The vendors come to us from all over the state! This brings us to you, t
he multitudes the come in costume and enjoyed your entire day or part of it, with us ��. Some of you came to us from other states! So what. Well, every year I am grateful for all of you. This year I am overwhelmed by this feeling because you ALL came out and played in the rain, there was no whining or complaining. You all just made the most of it! Great job! Everyone! Externally grateful for Ghostport 2016. ��
Leslie Wombacher
Head ghoul
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Winner
The winner of the Vendor Decorating Contest is Poison Apple Candy Shoppe!
Wilson poses for a nice picture in front of their awesome decorated booth.
:)
We saw many children (and adults) wearing their creative crochet hats!
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Thanks BHS Band!
Seriously! The
Bucksport High School Band
did a fantastic job showing their community spirit at this year's Ghostport! IN the rain! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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'Tis the season
The donation cans will be out until early December.
Christmas is for Kids is through Bucksport Community Concerns, the local food cupboard and benefits children from Bucksport, Verona Island & Orland
New business that cans are at:
Lethabo Massage Studio & Day Spa
New Total:
$275.02
New Info:
Angel trees will be up at three locations around the first part of November. The locations will be: Seaboard Federal Credit Union, MacLeod's Restaurant & The Local Variety. Thank you Johanna, George & Jess!
Businesses that currently have cans:
BookStacks
Bucksport House of Pizza
Coastal Energy
Community Pharmacy
Dave's Auto Repair & Towing
EBS
Fort View Variety
Huckelberries Card & Gift
Grindle's Insurance
Local Variety & Bake Shop
Outback Towing
Snowman's
Studio 83
Toziers Variety
True Value
Verona Wine & Design
If any business would like to have a can, please contact Aimee Lozier at 745-4371 - please leave a message
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20th Annual
Early Morning
First Day of Deer Season
Downtown Bucksport
Extravaganza
(and pretty good sale*)
SALE!
Save up to 36%**
Saturday,
OCT. 29, starting at 6 a.m.
6 to 7: 30% Off
7 to 8: 25% Off
8 to 9: 20% Off
**WHAT??
How can I say
"Save up to 36%"?
I'll tell you:
Roll the BookStacks die and increase your discount up to an ADDITIONAL 6%!
(depending, you know, on what you roll...)
AND!
COFFEE IS ON THE HOUSE
FROM 6 TO 9.
I CAN'T WAIT!
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Wine-tasting at BookStacks
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Tasting All French Wines
Saturday, Oct. 29
4 to 6 p.m.
From Andy: For no special reason, all the wines on this month's list are from France, arguably the producer of the world's best wines. Our favorite oenophile, Jack Scully, of Easterly Wine will return to present the wines, and answer your questions and comments. I'm happy to report Denise #1 is back on schedule to whip up some of her exquisite munchies to pair with the wines.
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Happy Halloween
Annual Halloween Party at Stockton Springs Community Library Saturday, October 29th
Stockton Springs Community Library (SSCL) will host its popular Annual Children's Halloween Party on Saturday, October 29th, 10:00 - 11:30 AM. Children (and adults) are encouraged to wear costumes. There will be a costume parade, games, a story, crafts, treats, prizes, and surprises. Admission is free and everyone is invited to attend.
SSCL's Annual Halloween Party has become a fun tradition for Stockton Springs and surrounding towns. Get creative and come as someone you admire, a superhero, a character from one of your favorite books, a fun monster, a king or queen, or whatever you can imagine! There will be prizes for best costumes, most original, and most scary.
Stockton Springs Community Library is an all volunteer library located in the historic Colcord House at the corner of Main and Station Streets in downtown Stockton Springs. For more information phone
567-4147 or visit
www.stocktonspringslibrary.org
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Literary event
Writers Paul Doiron and Kristen Lindquist Reading at Stockton Springs Library
Oct. 30th.
Here's a literary event that you don't see very often! Join Kristen Lindquist and award-winning crime novelist Paul Doiron, her husband, at the Stockton Springs Community Library on Sunday, October 30th from
2:00 - 3:00 pm
for a unique, mixed genre
Sunday
afternoon program. Kristen will read original poems that resonate with Paul's writing; Paul will read from WIDOWMAKER, the most recent book in his Mike Bowditch crime series. A small number of books by both writers will be available for purchase.
Paul Doiron is the author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels, including
The Poacher's Son
, which won the the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for an Edgar Award, an Anthony Award, a Macavity Award, and a Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and the Maine Literary Award for "Best Fiction of 2010." PopMatters named it to its Best Fiction of 2010 list. His second book,
Trespasser
, won the Maine Literary Award, was an American Booksellers Association Indie Bestseller, and has been called a "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" by Booklist. The third novel,
Bad Little Falls
, was a Bookscan Bestseller and a nominee for the RT Reviewers Choice Award and the Maine Literary Award.
Massacre Pond
, the fourth in the series, was an Indie Next pick and an Indie Favorite, as well as Bookscan Bestseller, and Maine Literary Award finalist.
The Bone Orchard
received a Best of Maine award from Down East.
The Precipice
was a LibraryReads selection and a RT Top Pick. The seventh Mike Bowditch novel,
Widowmaker
, was also a LibraryReads selection and a #1 Maine
Sunday
Telegram bestseller. Paul will be reading from Widowmaker at this event.
Paul is Editor Emeritus of
Down East: The Magazine of Maine,
having served as Editor in Chief from 2005 to 2013, before stepping down to write full time. A native of Maine, he attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English, and he holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. He is a former member of the Maine Arts Commission and a current member of the Maine Humanities Council. He is also a Registered Maine Guide specializing in fly fishing and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife, poet Kristen Lindquist.
Kristen Lindquist received her MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon and enjoyed many summers at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her poetry and other writings have appeared in Down East Magazine, Maine Times, Bangor Metro, Northern Sky News, andBangor Daily News, as well as various literary journals and anthologies. Her publications include the chapbook Invocation to the Birds (Oyster River Press, 2001) and the book Transportation, which was a finalist for a Maine Literary Award. In 2014 she won the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest (chosen by Gary Lawless). Her work has received other awards, as well, including the Bread Loaf Poetry Prize (chosen by Robert Pack and Carol Oles) and runner-up for Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance's Penobscot Watershed Poetry Prize (chosen by Baron Wormser). Garrison Keillor has read three poems from her book on National Public Radio's The Writer's Almanac. She has written a natural history column for the local papers (Camden Herald/Village Soup, now Pen Bay Pilot) for many years. She maintains a daily haiku blog,
Book of Days
.
An avid birder since childhood, Kristen served as the first female member of the Maine Bird Records Committee. She has guided for such organizations as Maine Audubon, Friends of Baxter State Park,
Coastal Mountains Land Trust
, and the
Acadia Birding Festival
. She currently serves on the Town of Camden Budget Committee, on the board of
Merryspring Nature Center
, as chair of the
Maine Community Foundation's Knox County Fund
, and as the treasurer of
West Bay Rotary
.
Following the reading, light refreshments will be served. The program is free and all are welcome.
This program was funded by a grant from the Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust of the Maine Community Foundation.
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GPMCT Fall Membership Fling
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Wildlands Trail Run
Wildlands Trail Run, October 30 GPMCT and Frenchman Bay Conservancy (FBC) are offering the annual Downeast Double Trouble Trail Race Challenge, with the 6.3-mile GPMCT Wildlands Trail Race October 30and 4-mile OR 8-mile FBC Autumn Trail Race November 6, both at 11 am. Participants who run (or walk!) both races are eligible for a special prize. For more details, go to our Race Page or visit www.frenchmanbay.org.
Register online. You can register on race day, too, but won't be guaranteed a t-shirt.
Thanks to this year's sponsors: Stanley Subaru; Awards, Signage & Trophies; Nick Vachon, Podiatrist; Dave's Tractor Services; Curtis Family Shoe; Tradewinds Market; MacLeod's Restaurant; Woodland Studios; Cadillac Mountain Sports; Morton's Moo!
GPMCT Fall Membership Fling! Show some love for your favorite trails this fall! Support wildlife habitat, recreational trails, clean water and working forests in western Hancock County - join or renew your membership! CLICK HERE to give online or download a Membership Form. Memberships make a great gift, too - we'll send a card, newsletter and Wildlands map to the recipient. Join by Nov. 1 and be eligible to win gift certificates and GPMCT swag!
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New Ventures Maine Seeks Applicants for Marketing Mini-Grant
Do you have a small business with 5 or fewer employees and sales under $250,000 annually? Do you have plans to grow your business and need to step up your marketing?
New Ventures Maine (NVME) will award cash mini-grants of up to $400 to microenterprises through a competitive application process to support marketing projects designed to help new or expanding businesses improve their market reach. Winners of the last round in June include: Karen Ressel, The Flowered Apron, Bar Harbor who will use her award for a new sign for her bakery due to open, spring 2017 and Todd & Jaime Rogers, In the Village Farm and Garden, Passadumkeag focused their grant on social media marketing. "This grant, though small, was truly awesome for us to receive. It forced us to think about how and what we are doing for marketing. It helped us make some connections with promotions experts to gain their advice. And, it has helped us to get our name out there."
Small businesses in, Hancock Washington Counties, Penobscot, Piscataquis may apply through NVME's greater Bangor region. The deadline for the next round of mini-grant awards is
November 4th. The production of a product or purchase of equipment, tools, furnishings, or other fixed assets are not supported and non-profits are not eligible. More information and application forms can be found at
newventuresmaine.org or by contacting Jane at
mary.jane.searles@maine.edu or
207-262-7843.
New Ventures Maine, a program of UMA and the UMS, helps people all over the state venture in new directions by offering tuition free programs for career, business, and financial education. Training is offered in person and online.
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Penobscot Marine Museum news and events
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2016 History Conference
The Net Result: Our Evolving Fisheries
Saturday, November 5, 2016
University of Maine Hutchinson Center
80 Belmont Ave., Belfast, Maine
This year's History Conference delves into statement: Human innovation and technology have proven to be too successful for the health of our fisheries and out local ecosystem. Our line-up of scientists, historians, journalists, activists, consumers and fishermen will answer the question: How did this happen and what do we do now?
Saturday, November 5
Registration: 8:30 a.m.
Conference: 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Museum Members: $50
Non-members: $60
Teacher/Non-Profit Employee: $50
Student: $30
For more information or to register over the phone,
please call 207-548-2529.
This year's History Conference delves into statement: Human innovation and technology have proven to be too successful for the health of our fisheries and our coastal ecosystem. Our line-up of scientists, historians, journalists, activists, consumers and fishermen will answer the question: How did this happen and what do we do now?
Regulating the Evolution: Marine Policy
Patrick Shepard, Fisheries Policy Associate at
Penobscot East Resource Center
Fisheries policy and conservation have not always been synonymous in our history. Patrick Shepard walks us through the major turning points in the groundfish regulations and brings us the current crossroad in policy as we plot the future of this historically important fishery.
Consuming the Evolution: A Food Historian's Guide to Seafood
Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Food Historian and Writer
The seafood, we as humans consume, has evolved over time based on the availability of the resource locally and through Trans-Oceanic trading webs, as well as the latest culinary trends. Food historian Nancy Harmon Jenkins charts the rise and fall of salt fish, sardine on crackers and other seafood favorites from the past, discusses current seafood consumption and predicts future seafood culinary trends.
Sustainably Fishing the Evolution: The Marine Affairs' Perspective
Peter Neill, Director of World Ocean Observatory
Peter Neill has been advocating for the health and sustainability of our oceans through numerous means of communication. He will discuss the evolution of the scientist-fishery harvester conversation and initiatives by each to address sustainability issues and meet conservation objectives imposed by regulatory bodies.
Sustainably Fishing the Evolution: The Fisherman's Perspective
Glen Libby, Manager of Port Clyde Fresh Catch and
co-author of Caught: time, place, fish.
As a fisherman, Mr. Libby has seen how the technological revolution has impacted how and where fishermen fish over a period of several decades. Not all of these advances were good from a sustainable fisheries perspective but we are now learning how to use technology to enhance the recovery of our groundfish fishery here in Maine.
Documenting the Evolution: National Fisherman
David Jackson, former publisher of National Fisherman
National Fisherman has been the periodical of record for the fishing industry for over 65 years, providing context for today's hot button issues in the industry. Former editor Dave Jackson, using photographs from the periodical's pages, will explore how National Fisherman documented the technological evolution in the fisheries and the resulting ecological and social effects.
More information online here.
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The Wilson Museum is offering fun hands-on workshops for kids with Anita Smith. And, best of all, they're FREE! However, space is limited, so call or email to get your name on the list 207-326-9247 orinfo@wilsonmuseum.org.
Anita Smith, a retired elementary and middle school teacher, was recognized in 2002 by Project Learning Tree as one of five Outstanding Environmental Educators in the USA. She is a Maine Master Naturalist, Project Learning Tree steering committee member, and program developer/leader at China School's Forest, an outdoor classroom in China, Maine.
Tuesday, November 1 (1 p.m.)
Traveling after Retirement.
The Castine Woman's Club and the Wilson Museum will co-host a presentation by Danielle Mutty at the Wilson Musuem's Hutchins Education Center on Perkins Street in Castine. She will take her audience on an illustrated tour highlighting some of the magical places she and her husband have visited in the last seventeen years. This program is open to the public and free of charge. For more information about this event contact
207-326-9247
or
info@wilsonmuseum.org
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Friday, November 4 (6:30 - 9 p.m.)
Coffee House
Tuesday, November 8 (10 a.m.)
Waffle Gardens
As programs are scheduled and information becomes available, it will be added to www.wilsonmuseum.org/calendar.html.
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Mystery exhibits
Did you visit the Wilson Museum this summer and scratch your head over our mystery exhibits? Well, if you were wondering who, what, when, or where, you can check out the Museum's Facebook page where answers will be posted throughout the month of October.
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Stonewall Kitchen Open House
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Saturday
Join us on Saturday, Nov 5 from 11am to 5pm to sample various Stonewall Kitchen products, for holiday entertaining and gift giving. Baked mini doughnuts using their electric doughnut maker will be available. Red pepper jelly and cream cheese, meatballs simmered in maple/bacon/onion jam, holiday jam, and more. Discounts on EVERY Stonewall Kitchen item that we have. Discover new favorites!
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