Bonnie Washuk

Mar 24, 2024 | pressherald.com | Bonnie Washuk

SOUTH PORTLAND — The aroma of fresh vegetables and sound of knives hitting cutting boards filled the air as 80 volunteers sliced peppers, mushrooms, celery and broccoli in the community room of the First Congregational Church. Everyone paused to cheer as two women ran to the front of the room, ringing cowbells to celebrate another large bin filled with ready-to-use donated vegetables.

Mar 18, 2024 | sunjournal.com | Bonnie Washuk

In the lobby of Portland’s Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, a chess board is on prominent display – for good reason. Earlier this month, the school’s chess team – which didn’t even exist a few months ago – won the Maine State Scholastic Chess Championship against 15 of the state’s best teams, including Kennebunk High School. Going into the championship, facing established high school chess teams, Baxter was not expected to win.

Mar 18, 2024 | pressherald.com | Bonnie Washuk

In the lobby of Portland’s Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, a chess board is on prominent display – for good reason. Earlier this month, the school’s chess team – which didn’t even exist a few months ago – won the Maine State Scholastic Chess Championship against 15 of the state’s best teams, including Kennebunk High School. Going into the championship, facing established high school chess teams, Baxter was not expected to win.

Mar 18, 2024 | centralmaine.com | Bonnie Washuk

A Piscataquis County man has been located safely after Warden K9 Storm along with Maine Game Warden Chad Robertson found him lost deep in the woods of northern Maine on Saturday night, Mark Latti of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said in a statement Sunday. Howard Weymouth, 71, of Abbot, had gone for a walk on his land Saturday afternoon at around 3:30 p.m. and when he didn’t return home his family became worried because Weymouth has Alzheimer’s.

Mar 17, 2024 | pressherald.com | Bonnie Washuk

Members of the Stillson School of Irish Dance march down Commercial Street in Portland on Sunday. Sofia Aldinio/ Staff Photographer The forecast for Sunday’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade called for rain, but with a little bit of luck, the weather suddenly changed. Just before the parade began, the sun appeared, delighting thousands of revelers who turned out for the city’s moving Irish party.