NEWPORT [Maine] – The Newport Cultural Center on Main Street will be finished and ready for the public at a grand opening celebration on Saturday.
The public may stop by to tour the new center from noon to 3 p.m. Several hundred invitations to the grand opening have been mailed out, said cultural center director Joanna Tarrazi.
The 10,000-square-foot facility was built during the past year on an empty lot. It joins the Newport Public Library and Historical Society under one roof – both groups have been cramped for space – and contains offices, a stage, a lounge, town records vault, historical displays and reading areas, and rooms for genealogical research, meetings, arts and crafts, and more… The center’s regular hours of operation are Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Read the full article in April 17, 2009 of the Kennebec Journal.
I am not sure who needs to be told this, or even if this is the right place to post something. That said, I wish to report the passing of my father, Homer I Sawyer, son of William and Myrtle Sawyer of Elm Street in Newport. Dad was 94 and passed peacefully on January 17, 2022. He was born in Newport, attended Newport schools and spent his last days in Lakeville, Massachusetts. I rather doubt that too many folks in Newport alive today would remember him, but I thought the town should record his passing in some way.