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Mon, 05/24/2021 - 1:30pm Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark, Newcastle. (Photo courtesy Frances Perkins Center) NEWCASTLE The Frances Perkins Center has received a conservation grant from The 1772 Foundation in partnership with Maine Preservation for the France Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark. This $6,500 matching grant will assist with roof repairs and preservation of the Homestead, which is scheduled to open to the public in 2022. “The news of this grant couldn’t have come at a better time for the Homestead’s preservation schedule,” said Michael Chaney, Executive Director of the Frances Perkins Center, in a news release. “With this grant, we will be able to undertake much needed repairs to the roof, and restore it to the time period of the original structure.” ....
Wed, 05/19/2021 - 12:45pm Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark, Newcastle. (Photo courtesy Frances Perkins Center) NEWCASTLE The Frances Perkins Center has received a conservation grant from The 1772 Foundation in partnership with Maine Preservation for the France Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark. This $6,500 matching grant will assist with roof repairs and preservation of the Homestead, which is scheduled to open to the public in 2022. “The news of this grant couldn’t have come at a better time for the Homestead’s preservation schedule,” said Michael Chaney, Executive Director of the Frances Perkins Center, in a news release. “With this grant, we will be able to undertake much needed repairs to the roof, and restore it to the time period of the original structure.” ....
Nonprofits across Maine are sharing $100,000 in charitable grants that will support building preservation and maintenance and have a long-term impact on local economies, according to the funder. The Rhode Island-based 1772 Foundation awarded matching grants from $2,000 to $10,000 to 18 nonprofits from Kennebunk to Eastport, representing historic preservation groups in 11 of the state s 16 counties. The money can be used for exterior improvements like painting, surface restoration, fire and security systems, as well as repairing and restoring chimneys, porches, roofs, windows, foundations, sills and masonry. Margaret Waldock, president of the 1772 Foundation, said the grants are an investment in protecting assets that are important to communities and their economic development. ....
Immigration, refugee policy focus of April 25 forum Share NEWCASTLE The Frances Perkins Center will present its seventh annual public policy forum “Conscience and Courage: Frances Perkins and Dr. Feng Shan Ho,” which focuses on immigration and refugee policy at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 25. The forum will cover how Perkins and Shan Ho used their positions of public office and ingenious strategies,despite strong national government opposition, to provide tens of thousands of Jews a means of escape from the Holocaust in Europe. Bat-Ami Zucker Contributed photo Keynote speakers for the forum include Bat-Ami Zucker, historian and professor emerita, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; and Manli Ho, a journalist and biographer for her late father, Dr. Feng Shan Ho, consul-general of China in Vienna from 1938-40. ....
Eye on Augusta: Legislature Passes Tax Breaks for 28,000 Businesses and 160,000 Unemployed Workers by Andy OâBrien (Photo: Dan Kirchoff) Andy O’Brien is communications director at Maine AFL-CIO. He is a former managing editor of The Free Press and a former state legislator. His Eye on Augusta column appears every other week in The Free Press. Last Thursday, the Maine Legislature passed a supplemental budget package that will provide a full state tax exemption to federal Paycheck Protection (PPP) grants for 28,000 profitable businesses as well as tax breaks on the first $10,200 of federal unemployment benefits for 160,000 unemployed workers. Republicans initially blocked the two-thirds votes necessary to pass the spending package in order to demand another $32 million in additional business tax cuts, including foreign-derived intangible income, to mirror the federal tax code. However, during floor debate, Republican le ....