Category Archives: Home and Family
April 19, 2012
April 13, 2012
Children’s Book “Small as an Elephant” Wins 2012 Maine Lupine Juvenile/Youth Award
Jennifer Richard Jacobson receives second Lupine Award from Maine Library Association Cumberland, Maine — April 13, 2012 – Jennifer Richard Jacobson, a Maine-based author of children’s books, announces that her novel, Small as an Elephant, received a 2012 Lupine Award…
March 29, 2012
March 19, 2012
Skowhegan Savings and Jobs for Maine’s Graduates Host First Ever Financial Literacy Fair at Skowhegan Area High School
Skowhegan Savings and Jobs for Maine’s Graduates (JMG) are set to host Somerset County’s first financial literacy fair for high school seniors at Skowhegan Area High School on March 21st, 2012 from 8:15am-10:30am. Skowhegan Savings will conduct a ribbon-cutting ceremony immediately following the financial literacy fair at 11:00am. Continue reading
March 15, 2012
Harold Alfond College Challenge “Casting Calls” Announced for Bangor and Portland
Casting Call events are held to find new Maine baby faces to promote the Harold Alfond College Challenge and to assist families with applying for the $500 grant for higher education available to all Maine babies up to their first birthday. Casting calls will be held at the Rangeley Hall on Sylvan Road at EMCC in Bangor from 10:00am – 2:00pm on Saturday, March 31 and at Woodbury Hall Campus Center on Bedford Ave. at USM in Portland from 10:00am – 2:00pm on Saturday, April 7. Continue reading
March 12, 2012
Maine Native Runs Away to Sea with her Husband and Writes a Book
What really happens when a couple leaves home and sails off into the sunset? Written by Maine native Barbara J. Hart, Harts at Sea Sailing to Windward, provides a truthful and humorous depiction of the joys and challenges encountered by…