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Friday, March 17th, is St. Patrick’s Day, celebrated with parades and festivities in over 100 US cities.  Test your St Patrick’s Day trivia here.  (Photo courtesy of Jill Brady from Portland Press […]

Low tide at sunset in moody March — Holmes Bay, Cutler/Whiting Happy International Women’s Day! New this week: Substance Use & its Impacts The CCC is excited to announce a […]

Today is Share a Smile Day, a delightful holiday that “encourages us to be a little bit more joyful. Created in 1997, this day has inspired people to share a smile […]

Today is Ash Wednesday — perhaps not the “happiest” Wednesday in the Christian calendar — but a significant holy day marking the first day of Lent, a 40-day period of […]

Although Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th, we celebrate his birthday, along with the birthday of our country’s first president, George Washington, on the 3rd Monday of February.  Abraham […]

Get ready to celebrate Chocolate Day on February 9th!  No kidding, it’s a thing, and you can read all about the origins of Chocolate Day (part of Valentine’s week in India) here.   And […]

Today, February 1st, starts an important Celtic holiday known as “Imbolc” (literally “in the belly”), celebrated from sunrise on February 1st through sunset February 2nd.  This “cross-quarter” day falls between […]

George Townsend & Kelsey LaCoote utilized The Joy Fund to purchase their new home in Calais).  Learn more about this CCC program to help first time homebuyers pay for home inspections.  (Photo […]

Sunday was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday — January 15, 1929, Atlanta, GA. From his bio on the Nobel Prize website: “In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern […]