Winthrop Grange Flea Market

September 13, 2025

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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.

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Grange Today! 8-22-2025

The Newsletter of the National Grange

Articles in this edition include:

  • National Grange Awards $40,000 in Rural Life Initiative Grants
  • 2025 National Grange Contest & Program Deadlines
  • Support Grange Youth and Juniors with a Custom Cruise Door Hanger!
  • View from the Hill
  • Saving a Slice of History
  • 7 Things Doctors Wish Families Knew This Back-to-School Season
  • Your Voice Matters: Help Protect Rural Kidney Patients
  • This National Immunization Awareness Month, Protect Your Health โ€” So You Donโ€™t Miss the Moments That Matter
  • Have you Registered?
  • You could be chosen to take part in the closing of National Grange session this November
  • Recipes from the Heartland
  • Be a Grange or State President in Action!
  • Grange Benefit: Wyndham Hotels
  • Grange Store

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Mill Stream Juniors Cleanup!

Maine participates in the National Grange Junior 1+ Program. If your Subordinate Grange has Junior 1+ members, pleaseย advise Maine State Grange.

    Vermont State Grange Fall Festival

    By Beth Morse, VSG Fall Festival Director
    802 388-2653

    abundance of orange pumpkins
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    Maine Grangers are invited to join us at the VT Grange Center (located at 308 West St, Brookfield, VT 05036) for our annual Fall Festival on Sept 5th, 6th & 7th. 

    Like many fairs, we give Grangers the opportunity to showcase the quality products they produce. (Forms are listed at the end of this post.)

    Here is a copy of our schedule of activities for the weekend:

    Friday:

    • 5:00 pm – Entries for judging can be turned in with entry form
    • 5:30 pm – Potluck Supper
    • 6:00 pm Bonfire (weather & burn ban permitting, plan B movie)

    Saturday:

    • 7:00 to 8:00 am Breakfast  ($8) Waffles, Bacon, Syrup, Fruit, Coffee & Juice
      • 8:00 am Activities will commence:

    Cribbage Contest
    Checkers Contest
    Hula Hoop Contest
    Horseshoe Contest
    Cornhole Contest
    Selfie Photo Booth
    Pumpkin Checkers
    Pumpkin Ring Toss
    Frying Pan Throwing
    Rolling Pin Throwing

    There will be sign-up forms available for each contest. 

    • 9:30 am All Vegetable, Flower, Cooking, and Craft Contest entries are due with the entry form (no form, no entry).  
    • 10:00 am Winter Building will be closed while the judging is going on (signs will be posted on the doors).
    • 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Lunch ($12) Meatball Grinders with/without sauce, Macaroni & Potato Salad, Brownies & Ice Cream, and Drink
    • 1:00 pm Activities will recompense, and Winter Building will reopen for viewing winners.
    • 1:30 to 2:30  – Live music provided by Granville Daze. 
    • 3:30 pm Action – items that have been exhibited and donated to auction. 
    • 5:30 pm Dinner ($15) Ham, Scalloped Potatoes, Vegetables, Coleslaw, and Apple Crisp
    • 6:30 pm Awards and prizes for the activities will be announced and presented.
    • 7:00 Movie 

    Sunday

    • 7:00 am Breakfast ($10) Egg Sandwiches, Bacon or Ham, Hash Browns, Fruit, Coffee & Juice
    • 8:00 am Chapel Service
    • 9:00 am Clean/Pack Up

    Festival Registration (Meals and accommodations)
    Festival Information (Contest Categories)
    Festival Entry Form
    Vermont State Grange Website

    Duck Pond Heritage Day Update

    Duck Pond Variety, Highland Lake Church, Highland Lake Grange, and Lennyโ€™s at Hawkes Plaza are pleased to announce a celebration of history at Duck Pond Corner, located at the intersection of Route 302, Duck Pond, and Hardy Roads in Westbrook.

    The Day will feature open houses at the church, Grange, and Lennyโ€™s, live music, historic photos, Scout & 4-H activities, food sale fundraisers, a special church service, displays of artifacts, Westbrook Police K9 demonstrations, a display of historic signs at Duck Pond Variety, and much more! 

    Click to enlarge this schedule of events. There are a lot to choose from!

    Come join us to explore the long history of this community. No cost to attend. 

    These are some of the many raffle items available.

    Grange Today! 8-8-2025

    The Newsletter of the National Grange

    Articles in this edition include:

    • Long Branch Community Grange hosts โ€œTouch-A-Truckโ€ Kidsโ€™ Day
    • Grange Heirloom for August
    • Commentary: Let No One Underestimate the Value of a Rural Story
    • Are you a Grange in Action?
    • State Presidents urged to take โ€œActionโ€
    • Your Voice Matters: Help Protect Rural Kidney Patients
    • 2025 National Grange Contest & Program Deadlines
    • Support Grange Youth and Juniors with a Custom Cruise Door Hanger!
    • Donate to the Grange Foundation for a special opportunity
    • Recipes from the Heartland
    • Grange Member Benefit: Pharmacy Discounts
    • Grange Store: Junior Grange Pin

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    Oxford Pomona Raffle Supports Words for Thirds

    Submittted by Steven Haycock

    Oxford Pomona Grange #2 is holding a Lottery Ticket and Cash Raffle!ย The proceeds of the raffle will be used to purchase dictionaries via the Words for Thirds program for various third-graders in Elementary Schools in Oxford County!ย This is an ambitious goal, and we need everyone’s help to make it happen!

    The details:

    • Prize: $250 in Maine State Lottery Scratch Tickets and $50!
    • Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20.00
    • Drawing will be at our September 2, 2025, meeting at Porter Grange.

    If anyone is interested in supporting this worthy community service program, please reach out to Steven Haycock, Secretary of Oxford Pomona at:
    44 Pond Road, Raymond, Maine, or Granger04071@aol.com

    You can also find me on Facebookย ย 

    Thanks in advance for your Support!

    Win This Quilt!

    Click on the photo to enlarge!

    Each year, during the Big E, the New England Grange Building has a quilt raffle. The state that donates the quilt (done on a rotation) chooses the non-profit that the money raised goes to.Last year, over $6,000 was raised for a Veterans’ Center in VT. This year, NH is donating the quilt, and all money raised will go to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

    If you are the winner, the NEGB will pay to ship it to you. The pattern, for those of us not familiar, is Jacob’s Ladder, and this quilt will fit a double bed.

    If you make a donation of any reasonable amount to the New England Grange Building, your name goes on a ticket to win. To enter the drawing, send a check made payable to the New England Grange Building. Please be sure to include the name and phone number you want to be on the ticket. Checks can be sent to:
    New England Grange Building
    C/O Vicki Huff
    90 Linton Street
    South Portland, ME 04106

    Donations must reach me by September 8th, 2025. Remember, the mail hasn’t been particularly speedy lately, so don’t wait until the last minute! I will take donations with me when I go to work in the building. If you see me out and about before then, I can take cash as well.

    Grange Today! 7-25-2025

    The Newsletter of the National Grange

    Articles in this edition include:

    • Grange members encouraged to submit nominations as part of Americaโ€™s 250th
    • Opinion – Farms in Crisis: Fixing the Broken Labor System
    • Be dressed in your best embroidered apparel sale
    • Final Call: Rural Life Initiative Grant applications due on July 31
    • COVID-19 Doesnโ€™t Take a Summer Vacationโ€”But It Can Ruin Yours
    • View from the Hill
    • Whatโ€™s in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for Farmers and Ranchers?
    • Have you registered?
    • You could be chosen to help close the business meeting at this yearโ€™s National Grange session
    • Support Grange Youth and Juniors with a Custom Cruise Door Hanger!
    • Hamp Watch: Where is our National Grange President this month?
    • Recipes from the Heartland
    • Grange Benefit: StartHearing
    • Grange Store

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