The Cancer Support Center of Maine will hold it's 11th Annual Summer Benefit on Sunday, August 25 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at The Farmhouse Inn in Blue Hill. Come enjoy Live Music, Cash Bar, Heavy Hors d'oeuvres as well as an auction and door prizes!  Tickets are $35.00 per person.  Call (207) 322-0960 to reserve your spot! All proceeds go directly to support education, outreach, and direct one-on-one assistance to local cancer patients and their loved ones who…

Author and journalist Janny Scott explores her family’s history in her book “The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father.” In “The Beneficiary,” which is part memoir, part class history and part detective story, Scott explores the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural and genetic—conspired in one person’s self-destruction. Join her for an author talk and book signing on Wednesday, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Jesup Memorial Library. “The Beneficiary” is story of an American family’s…

The public is welcome to attend this Pow Wow and learn more about Native American Culture. There will be drumming, dancing (many in full regalia), vendors selling hand made items. This year the Pow Wow will be Saturday August 31st and Sunday September 1st. Saturday and Sunday gates open 9am to 5pm, grand entry for drums and dancing is noon 934 Elm Street Newport Maine Jimmy Augustine will Emcee the event Host Drum is Grandmothers Tears Suggested donation at the…