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Category: Grange News
Communication Shorts 9-15-2025
By Walter Boomsma,
MSG Communications Director
207 343-1842
Communication Shorts are brief (short) but important items posted for your information and use. Please send us your ideas and thoughts!
September Bulletin
The September Bulletin is now available for download and printing. Recent issues of the Bulletin can be found on the Program Books and Information Page in the communications section.
An Annual Report?
It’s the end of the Grange Year. Certain State Officers and Directors are expected to file an annual report of their activities and accomplishments. (We’ll be publishing them on the site as they are received.) Have you considered putting one together for your Grange? You can think of your communities as your stockholders. Let them know what you have done this year!
Dates and Deadlines
Fall is coming. Some might say it’s already here. With the start of another Grange Fiscal Year, essential dates and deadlines abound! ODDs Note: Annual Reports are due today and Program Books by October 1, 2025!
Annual Purge Continues
We’re removing dated information from the website. This includes documents, posts, and photos. While some things are considered timeless, a general policy is to remove items that are more than two years old.
Think About This!
“A dull truth will not be looked at. An exciting lie will. That is what good, sincere people must understand. They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead.”
Bill Bernbach
An Idea for Your Grange
Last call! We’re almost finished with the BEB (Books Exchange Box) and LFL (Little Free Library) Resource Page. If your Grange has one or is interested in participating, please let us know.
Subscribe!
Remember, we don’t share your email address with anyone, and you get a weekly summary of what’s been posted. Subscribe here! Share that link with your members!
Online Directories Available 24-7
Thanks to those who help us keep these directories current by letting us know of changes!
- The Directory of Granges features all Granges in the state with a contact person. Please make sure your listing is correct! Visitors to the site frequently consult these directories.
- The ODD Directory features all state officers, directors, and deputies, along with their contact information.
South Sangerville Grange Bean Hole Bean Supper
Oct 25, 2025, South Sangerville Grange will host a Bean Hole Bean Supper from 4:30 to 6:00 PM. It includes beans, hot dogs, ham, mac&cheese, potato salad, coleslaw, rolls, biscuits, and corn bread. Deserts include pies (raspberry, blueberry, apple, chocolate cream, along with ice cream. Drinks are coffee, water, and apple cider. $10 minimum donation.
South Sangerville Grange is located at 25 Grange Road in South Sangerville, Maine.
Coming Soon?
Maybe several things! One that we’re sure of is another resource page for Granges and Grangers. This time, we’ll be introducing an easy-peasy community service that’s already being offered in over 200,000 locations around the world.
The Grange has always emphasized education and literacy. One of our signature programs, Words for Thirds, is an example. Now, in addition to making dictionaries available to third graders, we’re looking at a way to make many books available to everyone through library boxes located at our Grange Halls.
While these libraries do not have to be part of the Little Free Library project, they do offer some great ideas and inspiration.
The resource page we’re building will be available soon. It will include information about several libraries located at Granges in Maine. If your Grange has one or would like, please tell us about it!
Vassalboro Grange Happenings
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE: Vassalboro Grange has been recently awarded a grant with a membership bonus! Have you thought about becoming a Grange Member? If you join before Sept 18th, 2025, our Grange receives additional funding for each member signed up.  FMI Holly weidnerholly@gmail.com
CAPOEIRA EVENT: Saturday, Sept 13, 10 am-3 pm Demo/lesson in Brazilian martial art dance. Fun for many ages and abilities. FMI Molly Holliman molswald@aol.com
PHILOSOPHY TABLE: Sunday, Sept 14, 5 pm-7 pm. Potluck & Discussion of a philosophy topic. This month, featuring Eric Austin’s Town Line article “Why humans and AI might be more alike than we care to admit!” FMI Matthew matthew.freytag@maine.edu
OPEN MIC & COFFEE HOUSE: Saturday, Sept 20th, 7-9 pm Come to enjoy, and if you like, come to play/perform. FMI Kala kwistar11@gmail.com
RECURRING WEEKLY EVENTS:
COFFEE ON THE PORCH: Tuesdays 8:30 am-10 am. It is exactly what it sounds like. FMI Marada 207-316-5321 maradacook@gmail.com This event will welcome a new host for the 2026 season… might that be you? Reach out to me… if someone (or several someones) takes on this event, I will start something new for the Grange.
ZUMBA:  Now Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 5:30 pm FMI Theresa Warren warrentheresa684@gmail.com
ART BY JACKSON GREGORY: Displayed in the community room/dining hall, open concurrently with other events. FMI jackson@jacksongregory.com
DON’T BLINK! OCTOBER EVENTS ARE COMING:
Stay tuned for cider pressing week of 9/29 and/or 10/5, Folk Band Concert 10/10, Library Fundraiser event 10/25, along with our usual assortment of community-led, neighbor-rejoining, hall tromping fun!
Fifth Degree Offered
On Wednesday, October 8, 2025, Androscoggin Pomona will confer the Fifth Degree at Danville Junction. Grange, 15 Grange Street in Danville (Auburn). There will be a 6 pm bring-your-own supper / social hour at 6 pm. The meeting will begin at 7 pm. All are welcome to attend. If you have a candidate, please reach out beforehand to a member of the Pomona to discuss possibilities.
Valley Grange September Meeting to include PB &J
Friday, September 19, 2025
A potluck supper will take place at 6:00 pm. Our meeting follows at 7 pm
No, we won’t be having sandwiches for supper. Again this year, we are supporting Bangor Savings Bank’s PB & J Drive. Since 2012, the Bangor Savings Bank Peanut Butter & Jelly Drive has collected more than 146,000 jars and donated them to local food insecurity programs. That’s nearly 2.5 million peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for children, families, and individuals. That’s the power of community!
Please bring your donations to the meeting on Friday, September 19th, or drop them off at the Hall. Note that we must receive donations by September 25th. You can also drop off donations at any Bangor Savings Branch until September 30th. Tell ’em we sent you!
Communication Shorts 9-1-2025
By Walter Boomsma,
MSG Communications Director
207 343-1842
Communication Shorts are brief (short) but important items posted for your information and use. Please send us your ideas and thoughts!
September Bulletin
Deadline for this month’s Bulletin is September 14th. Recent issues of the Bulletin can be found on the Program Books and Information Page in the communications section.
An Annual Report?
It’s the end of the Grange Year. Certain State Officers and Directors are expected to file an annual report of their activities and accomplishments. (We’ll be publishing them on the site as they are received.) Have you considered putting one together for your Grange? You can think of your communities as your stockholders. Let them know what you have done this year!
Dates and Deadlines
Fall is coming. Some might say it’s already here. With the start of another Grange Fiscal Year, essential dates and deadlines abound! ODDs Note: Annual Reports and Program Books are due soon!
Annual Purge Continues
We’re removing dated information from the website. This includes documents, posts, and photos. While some things are considered timeless, a general policy is to remove items that are more than two years old.
Think About This!
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
Richard Bach
An Idea for Your Grange
It’s time to start thinking about Words for Thirds! And it’s not too early to think about Holiday Craft Fairs.
Subscribe!
Remember, we don’t share your email address with anyone, and you get a weekly summary of what’s been posted. Subscribe here! Share that link with your members!
Online Directories Available 24-7
Thanks to those who help us keep these directories current by letting us know of changes!
- The Directory of Granges features all Granges in the state with a contact person. Please make sure your listing is correct! Visitors to the site frequently consult these directories.
- The ODD Directory features all state officers, directors, and deputies, along with their contact information.
September Grange Events
September 2025
Every Monday, Summer Music Monday at St George Grange, 7 – 9 pm. Free! See post FMI.
Every Tuesday, Coffee on the Porch at Vassalboro Grange, 8:30 am – 10 am. See post FMI.
- September 1, 2025, Deadline for MSG Community Service Application
- September 1, 2025, Skit and Poetry Writing entries due to the MSG Lecturer.
- September 1, 2025, Book Reading entries due to MSG Lecturer
- September 5 -7, 2025, Vermont State Grange Fall Festival. See post FMI.
- September 6, 2025, Pie Sale on the Porch at Vassalboro Grange, 1 pm – 2 pm. See post FMI.
- September 13, 2025, MSG Lecturers’ Conference, 9 am -12 pm at Manchester Grange. FMI contact the MSG Lecturer.
- September 13, 2025, Summer Public Supper at St George Grange, 5 pm. See post FMI.
- September 13, 2025, Winthrop Grange Flea Market. 8 am -2 pm, contact Kathy at 207 500-9864 FMI.
- September 14, 2025, Philosophy Table at Vassalboro Grange, 5 – 7 pm. See post FMI
- September 14, 2025, MSG Bulletin Deadline
- September 15, 2025, Officer and Department Annual Reports are due.
- September 15, 2025, Deadline for Educational Ad Scholarship Applications. Send, to arrive by this date, to Nancy Farrington, Sec/Treas, 317 Holman Day Road, Vassalboro, ME 04989. Information and application are available here.
- September 20, 2025, Open Mic Night at Vassalboro Grange, 7 – 9 pm. See post FMI
- September 27, 2025, Penobscot Pomona meets at Old Town Riverside Grange at 11 am. FMI Call Master Sanda Moon at 207 827-3698.
Winthrop Grange Flea Market
September 13, 2025
Winthrop Grange is having a flea market on September 13, 2025, from 8 to 2. Tables are available outside for $10 and inside for $15. Contact Kathy at 207-500-9864 if interested.
Winthrop Grange is located at 598 Old Lewiston Road in Winthrop, Maine.