The award, one of four given statewide, will pay for repairs to exterior doors and windows for the theater as part of an initiative to drive economic development in rural downtowns.
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Scholarships available to women pursuing science, engineering degrees
The Maine Community Foundation is accepting applications for the Lydia R. Laurendeau Scholarship Fund. Established in 2013, the Laurendeau Fund provides renewable scholarship support to young women who are graduating seniors from high schools in Maine pursuing post-secondary education in science or engineering at a four-year university, according to a news release from the foundation. […]
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Scholarships available for students pursuing business degrees
Applications are being accepted for the Maine Community Foundation’s Patriot Education Scholarship Fund, according to a news release from the foundation. This renewable scholarship supports graduates of a Maine high school who are enrolled part-time (minimum of nine credit hours) or full-time in pursuit of a business degree and entering their freshman, sophomore, junior or […]
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Chet Jordan scholarship available for student leaders
Student leaders can apply for the Chet Jordan Leadership Award at the Maine Community Foundation. Eligible applicants are graduating seniors at Maine high schools who are pursuing post-secondary study in a two- or four-year certificate or undergraduate degree within the University of Maine System, Maine Community College System, Maine Maritime Academy and all vocational/technical schools […]
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Maine Community Foundation names new president and CEO
Incoming chief executive Deborah Ellwood is a leader in the field of community foundations with close ties to Maine.
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Maine foundation offers journalism scholarships
Maine students interested in careers in journalism can apply for post-secondary scholarships from the Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholarship Fund at the Maine Community Foundation. The scholarship honors Gannett, a businessman and entrepreneur who launched his newspaper career in 1921 with the purchase of two newspapers he merged into the Portland Press Herald, according to […]
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Driver pleads guilty to reduced charge for fatal Maine crash
An Ellsworth woman was driving slowly through a parking lot in November 2017 when she hit a guide wire, then accelerated into a tree.
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Maine state senator resigns to take job in Small Business Administration
Louis Luchini of Ellsworth will work as an advocate in the New England region.
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Conference to focus on living with cancer during pandemic
The Christine B. Foundation and Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center plan to co-host its Maine Cancer Series, starting with the Downeast Living With Cancer Conference: Living With Cancer in the Time of a Pandemic. The event is scheduled to be held via Zoom at 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, and will focus on the […]
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Ellsworth child left in car suffers frostbite; mother charged
The child was taken to a local hospital for treatment of hypothermia and frostbite.