Sasha Ray

Boston, Maine

Reporter at The Argus-Press

storyteller seeking truth and justice following my nose

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Techno music will bring a new beat to a traditional Maine contra dance

6 days ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

Few things are more traditional than a New England contra dance, in which a group of dancers gathers into lines and follows instructions from a caller, as musicians play fiddles and other acoustic instruments. But on Saturday, when the organizers of a monthly contra dance in Surry celebrate the event’s second birthday, they’ll break away from old-school folk music to feature a DJ playing techno music.
Star of 'Blair Witch Project' could be voted off Maine select board

6 days ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our other newsletters. Heather Donahue had a short but impressive acting career in Hollywood, most notably starring in the well-known 1999 horror film “The Blair Witch Project,” about a group of student filmmakers who go into the woods to investigate a myth about a local witch.
Stockton Springs convenience store closes after less than a year

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

A Stockton Springs general store has closed down less than a year after it opened with new owners. The owners of Cutterman’s Variety Story closed their doors on Sunday after being unable to reach a new agreement with their landlords. “Today marks a bittersweet day for Cutterman’s Variety as it will be our last day in business,” the owners said on Facebook.
‘I feel like a princess’: A Maine project gives away thousands of prom dresses

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

Years ago, when Rosie Brimley was two years old, she caught sight of a crowd of young women in a Belfast shopping plaza who were trying on glittering ballgowns, during an annual event called the Cinderella Project of Maine that connects high school students with prom dresses. According to her mother, Becky Nightingale-Johns, Rosie begged at the time, “One day, can I go to the Cinderella Project?”Now 17 and a senior at Islesboro Central School, Rosie has gotten her wish.
Composting food scraps is getting easier in eastern Maine

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our other newsletters. Sarah Osborne was bitten hard in recent years by the desire to produce her own food. It started around 2021. She’d started by watching lots of online videos about the homesteading lifestyle. She then got into raising chickens herself, as well as gardening and composting food waste.
Lawmakers reject effort to stop all development on Sears Island

2 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

Maine lawmakers have killed a piece of legislation that would have expanded a conservation easement that now protects two-thirds of Sears Island. The bill would have protected the entirety of the island from development, but the Maine Senate rejected it in a 24-9 vote on Tuesday, after the House of Representatives opposed it 76-68 one week earlier.
Fire damages 2nd midcoast motel that offered long-term rentals

2 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

A second midcoast motel that has been used for long-term rentals in recent years was damaged in a fire last week. The fire was reported at the Schooner Bay Motor Inn in Rockport on Wednesday night, after a humidifier ignited in its laundry room, according to local fire officials. The exact cause of the fire was not immediately determined.
Midcoast residents turn to communal living amid housing crisis

2 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our other newsletters. When Sandra Armbrust first moved from Massachusetts to Maine a few years ago, she ended up spending the initial part of the coronavirus pandemic living in her sister’s three-bedroom Northport home.
Maine agencies alarmed by layoff of federal heating assistance staff

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

At least one agency that directs federal heating assistance to low-income Mainers says it’s concerned about a recent decision by the Trump administration to lay off all the staff who manage the national program, but it noted that few details were immediately available about the change.
Thorndike schools evacuated after possible threat

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

This story will be updated. Police are investigating a possible threat that led to the evacuation of the Mount View middle and high schools in Thorndike on Tuesday afternoon. Little information was immediately available about the nature of the threat. By 2:30 p.m., buses had already taken many students away from the schools. Multiple fire trucks were parked outside the buildings. April Leeman, an assistant principal at the middle school, said she did not have more information.