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MCF awards $59K in arts grants to more than a dozen recipients
Updated: December 11, 2020A total of 13 grants worth a combined $59,250 have been awarded to support indigenous, ethnic or rural arts programs or projects, particularly those serving areas with limited access to arts events.
Updated: December 11, 2020
Portland museum closes temporarily, Bates delays classes in response to spread
December 9, 2020The Portland Museum of Art will remain closed until further notice, and Bates College is postponing its next semester by a month. Cases of COVID-19 in Maine are spiking, with the average number of new cases more than doubling over the past month.
December 9, 2020
York-based Stonewall Kitchen gets a rough reception at Boston cafe opening
December 3, 2020The specialty food producer's new branch, next to the Boston Children's Museum, includes a cafe that has parents worried and angry. The reaction has taken Stonewall by surprise.
December 3, 2020
Legislators call on Portland Museum of Art to let unionizing attempt go forward
November 19, 2020A letter to the museum said workers have a fundamental right to organize. PMA employees have accused the museum of “anti-worker tactics,” a charge the museum has denied.
November 19, 2020
Collins pushes Senate on creating Smithsonian women's history museum
November 18, 2020Collins and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, first introduced legislation for a women's history museum at the Smithsonian in 2003.
November 18, 2020
Ask ACE: What an employer should know about the gig economy
Updated: April 14, 2022A contributor from the Association for Consulting Expertise answers a reader's question about the legal pitfalls of hiring in the gig economy.
Updated: April 14, 2022
Maine theaters say the show must go on. But amid COVID-fostered union spats, will it?
Updated: November 11, 2020While live theaters have gone dark because of the pandemic, a professional drama company in Portland has managed to resume production. But COVID-19 precautions demanded by a powerful actors union worry some theaters about their next act.
Updated: November 11, 2020
Maine State Library finds temporary home in Winthrop
November 5, 2020The Maine State Cultural Building in Augusta, which houses the library, state archives and state museum, closed to the public in July because of needs for an extensive heating and electrical system overhaul and asbestos removal.
November 5, 2020
Maine is behind in STEM workforce development, but has growth potential
November 4, 2020Better alignment of educational systems with STEM workforce needs will help drive the high-paying STEM economy, Maine Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Heather Johnson said during a webinar on the topic.
November 4, 2020
Portland museum faces unionizing attempt, and questions about who can be part of it
October 21, 2020Some employees at Maine's largest public art institution want to be represented by a national labor union, but there's disagreement about who would be eligible for the local bargaining unit.
October 21, 2020
Runners, area businesses will have to sit out Millinocket Marathon this year
October 15, 2020The marathon and half-marathon, which have grown from a pop-up event with 52 runners in 2015 to more than 2,000, and have generated an estimated $1 million for the Katahdin region, won't be run this year because of COVID-19 restrictions.
October 15, 2020
Regal Cinemas sites in Augusta, Brunswick among 536 to close temporarily
October 6, 2020Citing financial struggles during the pandemic, U.K.-based Cineworld Group on Monday announced the temporary suspension of operations at all of its movie theaters in the United States, as well as more than 125 in the United Kingdom.
October 6, 2020
Giving Notebook: Coffee By Design awards arts grants, Portland seeks help to 'stay the course'
October 1, 2020Coffee By Design announces this year's Rebel Blend Fund grants, while Portland artists — and businesses — are encouraged to help in the city's "Stay the Course" public health awareness campaign to stop the spread of COVID-19.
October 1, 2020
Commentary: The arts mean business, and Maine’s performing arts are in trouble
Updated: September 27, 2020Maine’s performing arts organizations are in trouble. And their closures, furloughs, and layoffs are negatively impacting downtowns, small businesses, and communities — for all of which the performing arts mean business.
Updated: September 27, 2020
Portland's cultural community ‘check-in’ reveals business hardships, also optimism
September 23, 2020Businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Portland’s arts scene are having mixed results as they navigate the pandemic. Some in the visual arts have been able to pivot online. Musicians and other performers are struggling.
September 23, 2020
Anonymous donor gives $200K to support 20 Maine theaters during pandemic
September 22, 2020The gift provides funding for local drama groups and venues from Biddeford to Presque Isle. Many of the recipients have had to curtail or eliminate their summer seasons as a result of COVID-19.
September 22, 2020
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