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3 weeks ago | 
townline.org | Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Peter Cates
Issue for April 3, 2025 Due to budget cuts by the Trump Administration, Good Shepherd Food Bank, which distributes food to more than 600 partner-organizations including Winslow Community Cupboard food pantry, and China Food Pantry, is receiving, effective April 1, 2025, a 50 percent reduction in the amount of food it usually receives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)… VASSALBORO – Vassalboro Budget Committee members began their first 2025 meeting on March 18 by re-electing Peggy...
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1 month ago | 
townline.org | Jonathan Strieff |Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Peter Cates
Issue for March 20, 2025Two seventh-grade girls won the annual Pi Day contest at Vassalboro Community School on March 14 – the same two who won as sixth-graders last year, in reverse order.
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2 months ago | 
townline.org | Jayne Winters |Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Peter Cates
Issue for February 20, 2025Local couple celebrates 63rd anniversary at Sweetheart BreakfastThe South China Community Church (SCCC) held its first Blessed Breakfast in July 2023. Well-known for its turkey pie suppers, the Council decided to try something new because of the rising cost of turkey pies and declining attendance during the cold, dark winter months.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
townline.org | Peter Cates
by Peter CatesGustav MahlerGerman composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) suffered three major traumas the summer of 1907 – His oldest daughter Maria died from diptheria. After a brilliant few years as music director of the Vienna Court Opera, Mahler was forced out by a combination of systemic anti-Semitism and sleazy underhandedness. Finally he was diagnosed with angina and given at best two to four years to live .
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
townline.org | Peter Cates
by Peter CatesFormer New York Gov.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
townline.org | Peter Cates
by Peter CatesI Became AloneI Became Alone is a 1975 book by Judith Thurman on five major woman poets.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
townline.org | Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Gary Kennedy |Peter Cates
Issue for January 9, 2025Stormwater solution highlights power of collaboration for China LakeAserious runoff problem that was dumping phosphorus-laden water into China Lake has been resolved, thanks to teamwork that saw private landowners, nonprofits, and government agencies joining forces with the goal of protecting the lake’s water quality….
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
townline.org | Peter Cates
by Peter CatesAl JolsonAl Jolson – Tell That To The Marines (recorded September 10, 1918); Arthur Fields – You Can’t Beat Us (If It Takes Ten Million More, recorded September 19, 1918). Columbia A2657, ten-inch acoustic shellac disc. Born in Lithuania to a Jewish family, Asa Yoelson (1886-1950), better known as Al Jolson, was a singer who had extraordinary stage presence, vocal power and delivery, and would become extremely successful through stage, film, radio, records and touring.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
townline.org | Peter Cates
by Peter CatesCab CallawayCab Calloway and his Orchestra – Floogie Walk; The Ghost of Smoky Joe: Vocalion v4807, ten inch 78, recorded 1939. Cab Calloway (1907-1994) was a character in the truest sense of the word.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
townline.org | Peter Cates
by Peter CatesFred GaisbergFor collectors of the early shellac 78s, the 1999 biography, Sound Revolutions by Jerrold Northrop Moore is a fascinating biography of recording pioneer Fred Gaisberg (1873-1951) who, from 1894 when he landed employment at the Berliner Gramophone Company (later to become EMI) to his retirement in 1939, would develop a massive catalog of recordings of many of the world’s finest musicians and singers- Caruso, Chaliapin, Heifetz, Rubinstein, Paderewski, Kreisler etcs.
