Inside Bridgton: Jan. 1
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I wish all my readers a very happy holiday season and hope for a better, brighter, more normal new year. Stay safe and healthy!
Help Harvest Hills
The complications of the pandemic have hit fundraising efforts for animal shelters particularly hard. The Magic Lantern Theater is hoping to help out by “stuffing the truck” with much-needed items to deliver to Harvest Hills Animal Shelter in Fryeburg.
A donation box has been set up outside the Magic Lantern entrance and volunteers will be in the parking lot to accept items for the shelter from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 2, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 3.
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BRIDGTON Gallery 302 is happy to add a new stained-glass artist to its group of more than 40 artists. Deborah J. Ripley is a stained-glass artist from Denmark, Maine. Deborah learned stained-glass techniques from a very gifted local artist in the Winter of 2016. It brings her great joy to make something interesting, bright, and beautiful from a pile of colored glass. Deborah’s ultimate desire is for the client to feel joy from the stained-glass she creates. She believes art is both magical for the artist creating it and for the person purchasing it! Deborah loves to work with different types of cathedral and textured glass and she loves wild and unusual colors of stained-glass. The artist does not follow a specific pattern but rather chooses to create a free-flowing, creative design of colors and patterns as she works. Her only planning is the size for the artwork and the boundary to work within. Deborah loves this because her artistry comes al
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Deborah J. Ripley, a stained-glass artist from Denmark, Maine, joins a group of more than 40 artists at Gallery 302.
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BRIDGTON Deborah J. Ripley, a stained-glass artist from Denmark, Maine, joins a group of more than 40 artists at Gallery 302, 112 Main St.
Ripley learned stained-glass techniques from a gifted local artist in the winter of 2016. It brings her great joy to make something interesting, bright and beautiful from a pile of colored glass. Her ultimate desire is for the client to feel joy from the stained-glass she creates.
Ripley believes art is magical for the artist creating it and for the person purchasing it. She loves to work with different types of cathedral and textured glass and she loves wild and unusual colors of stained-glass. The artist does not follow a specific pattern but rather chooses to create a free-flowing, creative design of colors and patterns as she works. Her only planning is the size for the artwork and the bound