The Many Ways in Which Art & Literature Impact Our Lives with Jeffrey Brown, A.O. Scott and Richard Russo on Wednesday August 27, is sold out – though we will make any tickets from cancellations available for sale on Eventbrite, also accessible through our FreeportSpeech.org website, up until the event. We invite you to mark your calendars, as tickets have just gone on sale for our next event: Dr. Fiona Hill, Susan Thornton and Barrett Takesian Examine Local Solutions to Global Challenges. That event will be held at the Freeport Performing Arts Center on Thursday, September 25. Tickets are available on Eventbrite or through our website.
A break in the heat, and rain — a little – is coming to Maine
PRESS HERALD
As the Trump administration ramps up deportation efforts, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are showing up at traffic stops and work sites throughout Maine. Border Patrol has long been allowed deep into Maine's interior, as the entire state falls within its 100-mile border zone. Critics fear the agency is going far beyond its work at the border. Read this story. |
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Over 126,400 people moved to Maine between 2020 and Aug. 1 of this year — an estimate based on a Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram analysis. The state saw a population boom because of the pandemic, when people were able to work from home and left big cities. As life has slowly returned to “normal” and some companies have cut back on their remote work policies, the gold rush to Vacationland has slowed. Read this story |