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Belmont
Family reunion
The Hannan-Hannon, Boynton, Morse, Lermond, Marriner, Heal and Heald family reunion will gather at noon Saturday, Aug. 13, at the home of Robert and Isabel Morse Maresh, 169 Howard Road, Belmont.
Last year guests attended from Appleton, Belfast, Belmont, Brooks, Camden, Etna, Hermon, Liberty, Lincolnville, Montville, Northport, Prospect, Randolph, Searsmont, Standish, Stockton Springs, Waldoboro, West Bath, Winthrop, Woolwich, Concord and Chichester, N. H., Franklin, Mass., and coming the greatest distance, from Orlando, Fla.
Help is needed for set-up, preparation and name tags. Bring a chair, casserole, dessert, cookies, chips, soda for the pot-luck lunch table. Bring an item for the mini-auction which helps to pay reunion expenses.
Bring photos, scrapbooks and family records to be scanned and shared. If you are a musician, bring musical instruments
Plates, cups, eating utensils, baked beans, potato salad, coffee, tea, lemonade will be provided.
For more information, call 342-5208 or email mareshme@fairpoint.net.
Garden Walk report
The Waldo County General Hospital Aid reported that its 21st annual Garden Walk raised $2,269 for the hospital. Those who opened their gardens to the public were Ron and Elaine Kennedy, Jim Rose, David and Dorothy Alling, Betty Shopmeyer, Norma Sweigert, Janet Williams, Peter Clain, Dick Tourigney, and Ernie and Natalie Woodward.
Others who helped with the event were Aid members who volunteered in the gardens, erected signs, tied balloons, made lemonade and baked cookies; ticket sellers at Brambles, Mr. Paperback and Left Bank Books; local newspapers that provided publicity; and Wilma Moses who acted as chairwoman of the garden walk committee.
The Woodward garden was featured on a television show, “Garden Thyme,” hosted by Natalie Woodward’s sisters, Diane and Donna, for Saco Rivercommunity television.
Damariscotta
Red Cloak Haunted History Tours will host a Midnight Explore Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Main Street building that houses Salt Bay Cafe, the Damariscotta Region Chamber of Commerce and the Pemaquid Watershed Association.
A portion of the proceeds generated by the event will benefit Pemaquid Watershed Association.
The fee for the Midnight Explore, which includes a light buffet, is $45 per person. A donation to the association is included in the fee. Reservations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. To make reservations, or for more information, contact Red Cloak Haunted History Tours at 380-3806 or redcloaktours@gmail.com.
Morrill
Fire department fundraiser
The Morrill Volunteer Fire Department will host its annual fundraiser events Saturday, Aug. 6. Festivities begin at 8 a.m. with an outdoor yard sale. At 9 a.m. the bake sale will open and at 10 a.m. the auction will kick off, followed by the raffle drawing. Hot dogs and drinks will be available. Proceeds will support the department’s training and equipment needs for the upcoming year. For more information, call Fire Chief Pat Scribner at 342-2129.
Rockport
Blueberries
Coastal Mountains Land Trust invites the public to participate in its ninth annual free blueberry pick 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. The land trust will open a portion of the 20-acre organic blueberry farm as a thank you to the community that supports and enjoys the Preserve. Staff and volunteers will be on hand to welcome and orient people to areas open for picking.
Participants should bring their own containers and be prepared for a moderate walk to the picking fields. Raking is not permitted. Volunteers will be on hand to direct visitors to parking locations at the Preserve’s Beech Hill Road parking lot and adjacent field. Parking and access to the Preserve are not permitted from South Street at any time.
Beech Nut, the historic stone hut on the summit, will be open to the public 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Guests will have the opportunity to talk about the history and management of the hut and the Preserve with Land Trust volunteers. Beech Hill Preserve is a 300-acre farm, managed for the purposes of maintaining the property’s scenic beauty, historic value, grassland bird habitat and organic blueberry production.
Visitors are reminded that fields are only open to the public during scheduled free pick times and then only in designated pick areas. At all other times, the land trust requests that the visitors stay off the fields. For more information about the Land Trust, www.coastalmountains.org or call 236-7091.
Searsport
Congratulations to the museum
Maine State Rep. James S. Gillway of Searsport presented the state’s official congratulations to Penobscot Marine Museum on July 23 during a celebration of the museum’s 75th anniversary. Accepting the document from Gillway was the museum’s executive director, Liz Lodge. The presentation took place on Penobscot Bay Day, the museum’s free, all-day “birthday party” that included music, tours, demonstrations and crafts projects.
Stockton Springs
Remembering WWII’s end
The Stockton Springs Historical Society will meet at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, in the society’s meeting rooms in the Colcord House, corner of Main and Station streets. The program will be “Where were you when the freedom bells rang?”
In commemoration of the end of WWII, Aug. 14, 1945, all who attend are invited to bring artifacts, stories, pictures or other items to share as participants recall the shortages, rationing, war bonds, “Rosie the Riveter” and tales of heroism and sacrifices that marked those years.
Thomaston
Historical society meeting
Christopher Glass, author of “Historic Maine Homes: 300 Years of Great Houses,” will be the featured speaker at a meeting of the Thomaston Historical Society at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, at the Knox Farmhouse, 80 Knox St. The meeting is free and open to all.
Glass will talk about how Mainer’s attitudes have evolved over time regarding what their houses should look like, illustrating his talk with an emphasis on homes in the immediate Midcoast area.
Glass is an architect practicing in Camden since 1974. He is the former architect member and chairman of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission and former President of Maine Preservation, and has received awards from both organizations.
The session will begin with refreshments at 7 p.m. followed by a brief business meeting at
7:30 p.m. and the Glass presentation at 7:40 p.m.
Union
Fair headliner
John Crabtree, president of the Union Fair, and Elmer “Buddy” Savage, vice president and entertainment chairman, announced that country artist Craig Campbell will be this year’s featured entertainer. Campbell will perform one show, rain or shine, at 8 p.m. Friday. Aug. 26, on the big stage across from the grandstand. Gate admission includes the show. The Union Fair will run Aug. 20-27. For more information, visit www.union fair.org.
Conservation opportunities
The Vose Library will host a presentation about community-based conservation opportunities in the St. George river watershed. The program will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, at the new library building, 392 Common Road.
Annette Naegel, conservation program director at Georges River Land Trust, and Peter Duffey, a Union volunteer with GRLT, will discuss educational programs available for area residents who wish to help preserve the character of local towns, landscapes and wild places within the Georges River watershed.
For more information, call the library at 785-4733.
Warren
Musicfest
A Musicfest and lunch fundraiser will be held noon-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, at Old Mill Park. The event will benefit the Bread for the Journey Food Pantry in Warren.
The schedule is:
• Community worship service with music by Lauren Armstrong and the WBC Praise Band, 10 a.m.
• The Rusty Hinges, noon.
• Bill Tozier, 1 p.m.
• Northern Breeze, 2 p.m.
• Federated Four, 3 p.m.