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Catherine two officers dead, a mayor under siege. Catherine the legacy of a gunman who said he wanted to retaliate for the Police Killings of eric garner and michael brown. Catherine in a divided new york city, mayor bill de blasio said its time for a moratorium on protests. im asking everyone, and this is across the spectrum, to put aside the protests; put aside demonstrations. Until these funerals are passed, lets focus on these families and what they have lost. I think thats the right way to try and build towards a more unified and decent city. Catherine the mayor and his Police Commissioner visited the families of the two Fallen Police officers today. You can only imagine what the family members are going through at that moment where their lives have suddenly been made unimaginable, that everything that they thought and believed would be a part of their lives is suddenly gone. And that night was painful for all of us. Catherine officers rafael ramos and wenjian liu were ambushed sa
Lisa Landry of Norridgewock is the newest member of the Maine Community Foundation’s Western Mountains Committee. MaineCF’s county committees are made up of community members who live or work in Franklin and Somerset counties and serve as local ambassadors for the foundation, sharing their knowledge and providing on-the-ground local leadership for the foundation, according to […]
More than $78,000 in Maine Community Foundation grants aim to help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Franklin and Somerset counties. The
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Blair Marvin leads a workshop at the Kneading Conference. The Maine Grain Alliance was among 12 nonprofit organizations to receive grants from the Western Mountains Committee of the Maine Community Foundation.
Photo courtesy Maine Grain Alliance
The Western Mountains Committee of the Maine Community Foundation has awarded $72,613 in grants to 12 nonprofit organizations.
Grant recipients include:
• Literacy Volunteers of Franklin and Somerset counties, to empower adults who are less literate to achieve progress on self-selected goals and improve foundational literacy with community education programming.
• Maine Grain Alliance, to support essential workers in grain-based businesses to survive and thrive through and beyond the disruptions of the 2020 worldwide pandemic.