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The Yarmouth Clam Festival parade covered a mile and a half along Main and West Elm streets in Yarmouth on Friday. The theme was board games this year. The festival continues with such activities as a clam shucking contest, a sand sculpting contest and fireworks. And, as always, plenty of food.For a complete schedule of festival events, including the many live music performances, go to clamfestival.com. « Previous As more Maine nursing homes close, advocates seek $1 million in held-up funding Next » Saco orders school department to move from Willey Road site … [Read more...] about Photos: Yarmouth Clam Festival parade struts its stuff

SACO — The city is giving the Saco School Department 10 days to move its pre-K program out of the former Toddle Inn building and to a new location for the coming school year. After a successful preliminary year, the Saco School Department decided to expand its pre-K program and intends to serve about 128 students in the fall.With the need for more room, the school department signed a lease with the owner of the former Toddle Inn Child Care building at 5 Willey Road, located in the city’s Spring Hill business park. The Saco School Department signed a lease with the Toddle Inn to use the Willey Road building for the district’s pre-K program. But the city administrator says the lease violates covenants for the business park that forbid non-taxpaying entities from locating there. Liz Gotthelf/Journal Tribune At first look, the property seems like the perfect location for a pre-K program. The building is designed with the needs of small children in mind, with a classroom … [Read more...] about Saco orders school department to move from Willey Road site

If you were to take the test to become a U.S. citizen tomorrow, you might be asked to name one of five U.S. territories, or two of the rights contained in the Declaration of Independence, or to provide the correct number of amendments to the Constitution. The naturalization test is a crucial part of an immigrant’s journey to becoming an American. And, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, it is meant not just as a measure of U.S. civics knowledge, but also as a reason to study and absorb the principles, values and functions of the U.S. government, including the rights and responsibilities that come with citizenship.(Question No. 49: What is one responsibility that is only for United States’ citizens? Answer: “serve on a jury” or “vote in a federal election.”) The Trump administration is planning to update the test, with a new version slated to debut before the end of President Donald Trump’s first term, officials said Friday. … [Read more...] about Trump administration planning changes to U.S. citizenship test

TEHRAN, Iran  — Iran said Friday it can provide images that disprove President Donald Trump’s statement that a U.S. warship destroyed an Iranian drone near the Persian Gulf after it threatened the ship. The incident marked a new escalation of tensions between the countries, less than a month after Iran downed an American drone in the same waterway and Trump came close to retaliating with a military strike. The Iranian military said all its drones had returned safely to their bases and denied there was any confrontation with a U.S. vessel the previous day.“We have not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else,” tweeted Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. The strait is at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and serves as the passageway for a fifth of all global crude exports; a clash there highlights the risk of war between Iran and the U.S. Trump on Thursday said the USS Boxer took defensive action after an Iranian drone closed to within 1,000 … [Read more...] about Iran denies Trump claim that U.S. destroyed Iranian drone

Our selection of the cross-media event's boundary-pushing films By Beth Sullivan, Fri., July 19, 2019 Tweet print write a letter Adam Flaming Creatures Thu., July 18, 8pm @AFS Cinema With its graphic depictions of sex coupled with an ensemble of lipsticked drag performers and a vampire à la Marilyn Monroe, Jack Smith's erotic experimental film was banned in 22 U.S. states and four countries following its release in 1963. It morphed into a cause célèbre of New York's burgeoning underground film scene when police raided an early screening, arresting and charging avant-garde filmmaker and The Village Voice columnist Jonas Mekas, among others, for showing an "indecent, lewd, and obscene" film. Screening includes an original live score by local experimental act Thor & Friends. Adam Fri., July 19, 7pm @AFS Cinema Adapted from Ariel Schrag's eponymous – and controversial – novel, trans filmmaker Rhys Ernst's feature directorial debut flips the … [Read more...] about Contrast Film Festival Flick Picks