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(PORTLAND, Maine) One company is taking used sails from sailboats and creating something totally brand new: summer tote bags.
Sea Bags, founded in Portland, Maine, makes unique tote bags out of locally recycled materials. Since 1999, the company says it has saved over 700 tons of material from going into landfills.
“Our materials come from Maine first; New England, second; and [the] U.S.A, third,” it says on the company’s website.
Located right on the water on Custom House Wharf in Portland, Sea Bags employs 200 workers.
Employee Dillon Leary, who has been working for Sea Bags since high school, said he’s proud of his role in producing the bags.
Sea Bags opens new flagship store in Portland Share Updated: 4:18 PM EDT May 28, 2021
Sea Bags opens new flagship store in Portland Share Updated: 4:18 PM EDT May 28, 2021
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Show Transcript TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SILENT AUCTION, YOU CAN VISIT FINDING OUR- VOICES-DOT-NET SEA BAGS.. THE MAINE COMPANY THAT MAKES BAGS AND TOTES FROM RECYCLED SAIL CLOTH.. OPENING A NEW FLAGSHIP STORE TODAY.. JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND.. THE NEW STORE IS ON COMMERCIAL STREET IN PORTLAND.. JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM CUSTOM HOUSE WHARF.IT S ORIGINAL LOCATION. .AND IS NOW THE COMPANY S FACTORY STORE. WE SAW THIS SPACE, WE USED IT FOR A TEMPORARY POP-UP. AND THEN WE LOVED THE CHARACTER AND THE BONES AND WE SAID MAYBE IT S TIME WE OPEN UP A BIG STORE AND A BIG FLAGSHIP. THIS IS THE 39TH RETAIL STORE FOR SEA BAGS.. THE BUSINESS
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Art students’ work on display
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Artists exhibit now hung at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland features the work of 15 artists who have attended the internationally renowned school since its inception in 1946.
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Exhibits
Art Auction to benefit Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset, view online through June 15, maineartgallerywiscasset.org.
“East End in Bloom,” installation of flowers through May at East End Community School, 195 North St., Portland.
“The Ground Beneath You Holds You,” new works by Alice Jones, to June 26 at Elizabeth Moss Galleries, U.S. Route 1 in the Falmouth Shopping Center.
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