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🌱 Hear the new Belfast-grown bluegrass project now streaming everywhere

Also check out "Monitor Talk" Maine's Housing Challenge on the Belfast Patch calendar

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Good morning Belfast! We're back again in your inbox, keeping you updated with what's happening in and around town. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Hear the new Belfast-grown bluegrass project now streaming everywhere
  • What Troy Jackson told voters at his Belfast town hall

Also on today's calendar: Monitor Talk: Maine's Housing Challenge and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 72 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Friday: An afternoon shower or two, temps: high: 72, low: 50.
  • Saturday: Sunny; pleasant, less humid, with a high of 68 and low of 41 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Belfast – Two Maine Songwriters Collaborate on Original Bluegrass Recording Project (turnerpublishing.net) — A Belfast-based bluegrass project from songwriter Sara Trunzo and her Maine Band has just released a new double-single now streaming everywhere. The collaboration with Brewer songwriter Evan Richert highlights Maine's landscape and environmental concerns, and even draws on engineering help from Belfast's own Lincoln Clapp. Local music fans can discover a homegrown, nationally recognized sound rooted in community.
   

• Troy Jackson apologizes for comments he made during a conversation about why he considers Israel's war in Gaza a 'genocide' (newscentermaine.com) — A recent U.S. Senate campaign town hall in Belfast, filmed by C-SPAN, is part of the backdrop to Democrat Troy Jackson's apology for comments about Israel's war in Gaza. Jackson is standing by his description of the conflict as genocide while saying he misspoke about Jewish Mainers' views. The race against Sen. Susan Collins could shape federal policy that Belfast residents hear debated locally.
   

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  • SAS Retail Services posted a job opening for Retail Merchandiser in Belfast. Apply here.
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  • Author Talk: 'Banned Books Week' to feature Jenny Finney Boylan, MLA andA CLU in Rockport (penbaypilot.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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