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ELLSWORTH — Traya Huff and Bonnie Tai of Bar Harbor and Steve Schley of Sorrento are the newest members of the Maine Community Foundation’s Hancock County Grantmaking Committee.

Pandemic spurs library to show and sell artists’ clay creations   BROOKLIN — It was very much by chance that Odette Heideman fell into the craft of making pottery. For years, the Naskeag Point Road resident explained, her husband had given her gift certificates for facials and massages that went unused. Heideman floated an idea of something she might like to do, so he gave her a gift certificate for six lessons with a potter in Sag Harbor, N.Y., where they used to live. Heideman, who had been working as a literary editor, took the classes. “I was hooked,” she said. Then t...