The Mission has opened registration for our 2025 EdGE summer camp. Camp opportunities are offered at three locations across Downeast Maine in Addison, Machias, and Milbridge for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. EdGE Summer Camp provides children fun,...
The Mission is pleased to announce the 27 new Mission Scholarship award recipients from Hancock and Washington Counties. Representing 12 high schools in the Mission’s service area, the newest Mission Scholars include: Melissa Albert, Machias Memorial High School...
For their commitment to the communities served by the Mission, President John Zavodny has announced the 2025 Sunbeam Award recipients: Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation and Sunrise County Economic Council. Both awardees will be recognized at this year’s Sunbeam Award...
Join the Mission this summer for guided, dockside tours of the 74-foot boat, Sunbeam. Each Friday at 1:00 p.m. from July 13 to September 19, the public is welcome aboard the boat at its home port at the Northeast Harbor marina. Visitors will learn about the...
Mike Driscoll started using the Mission’s food pantry a few months ago. He receives social security income, but with things gradually becoming more expensive, he turned to the Mission’s pantry. While Mike has lived in Cherryfield his whole life, he had never been...
The Mission will accept applications for the Davis Maine Scholarship Monday, March 31 through Sunday, April 13, 2025. Davis Maine Scholars, who are first-generation college students from Washington and eastern Hancock Counties, are chosen during the Spring of their...
Every fall, a request goes out to the residents of Maine’s unbridged islands, asking them to send in their prose, photographs, poetry, and paintings to The Island Reader. Then, in the spring, the editors go through the submissions helping put together the final issue...
Join the Mission for fun, family-friendly activities on Saturdays this spring. After a great winter of ice skating and other outdoor recreation, the momentum continues with programs every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting on Saturday, April 19. There will also...
The Mission is partnering with Fishing Partnership Support Services to offer two CPR and First Aid Courses for fishermen on Great Cranberry Island on Tuesday, April 15, and on Isle au Haut on Thursday, April 17. Running from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., these classes are...