Maine
5 Maine-Made Aprons That Are Fit to Be Tied
By Sarah Stebbins
From our November 2024 issue
1. Weft and Warp
Culinary Institute of America grad Rachel LeGloahec was a sous chef at Las Vegas’s swanky L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, co-owned a Sin City restaurant, and won Food Network’s Chopped before returning to her native Maine in 2018. Now a Brunswick-based private chef, she also crafts knife rolls, bags, and aprons, including her favorite cotton bib style with a generous hip pocket. $65.
2. Bowerbird Studio
Sturdy, boldly patterned Japanese linen inspired New Harbor stitcher Betsy Leighton to create a collection of cross-back aprons that are almost too pretty for the kitchen. Some customers opt to wear the reversible garments as dresses, layered over a T-shirt and leggings, instead. $135.
3. Kennedy & Co.
Windsor’s Amie Kennedy counts gardeners, metalworkers, a beam hewer, and the staff at Freedom’s The Lost Kitchen among the fans of her rugged, water-and-stain-resistant, waxed-canvas aprons. A shoemaking course at Portland’s Maine College of Art & Design led the U.S. Army vet to launch her line of vintagey leather and canvas goods spanning bags, belts, journal covers, and wallets. $175.
4. Yo Momma’s Apron Strings
The daughter of antiques dealers, Bowdoin’s Jinger Howell has a soft spot for retro styles. Twenty years ago, she made her first apron using a 1920s pattern. One throwback design led to another. “And before long, it dawned on me that I was having fun,” she says. Today, she sells nostalgic drop-waist, cross-back, kids’, and smock-like aprons (pictured) in brightly printed cotton. $48.
5. Amphitrite Linens
Newcastle seamstress Katrina Kelley’s late brother, a chef, is the muse behind her kitchen-goods collection, which includes linen cross-back (pictured), café, and bistro aprons worn by caterers and the servers at Camden’s Buttermilk Kitchen. “Working with chefs and restaurants fills my heart with the joy my brother felt,” Kelley says. $110.
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Maine photographer offers discounts, free services to same-sex couples who want to get married before inauguration
PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) – Many people in the LGBTQ+ community are concerned about last week’s election results, as they fear marriage equality protections may change under the new Trump administration.
As a result, a growing number of professional photographers are coming together to offer discounted or free same-sex wedding ceremony coverage.
That list includes Cassandra Fontaine of Koa & Kai Photography, who is based in Maine.
“Personally, in my family, my sister is in the LGBTQ community. My mom is,” Fontaine said. “It was more out of love and just knowing that I know how afraid they are, and I want to support them in whatever way that they can.”
The discounts and free services are being offered to those who are considering moving their wedding timelines up to between now and January.
It is important to note the Trump administration has not announced any plans to challenge marriage equality.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Maine since 2012, which is three years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage across the country.
In its Obergefell v. Hodges decision, the Supreme Court ruled that all 50 states must allow and recognize same-sex marriages under the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment.
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Maine
11 Maine legislative races headed to recounts, including one tie
Eleven races in the Maine Legislature that were contested on Nov. 5 are headed to recounts, the Maine secretary of state’s office announced Wednesday.
Ballots will be recounted in nine House races and two Senate races. Recounts will start on Friday and continue through Nov. 25.
Preliminary counts included a dead-even tie in House District 141, and three races where the margin between the apparent winner and loser was fewer than 20 votes.
The results below are unofficial preliminary counts provided by the secretary of state’s office.
House District 44
William Pluecker – 2,731
Ray Thombs – 2,369
House District 52
Sally Cluchey – 2,748
David Guilmette – 2,732
House District 58
Sharon Frost – 3,158
Daniel Newman – 3,114
House District 75
Stephan Bunker – 2,318
Randall Gauvin – 2,308
House District 81
Peter Wood – 2,835
Joan Beal – 2,816
House District 96
Michel Lajoie – 2,550
Kerryl Clement – 2,514
House District 98
Kilton Webb – 2,995
Guy Lebida – 2,941
House District 141
Patricia Kidder – 2,476
Lucas Lanigan – 2,476
House District 142
Anne-Marie Mastraccio – 1,938
Amy Bell – 1,874
Senate District 8
Leo Kenney – 10,112
Michael Tipping – 10,229
Senate District 15
Richard Bradstreet – 10,820
Raegan LaRochelle – 10,621
Maine law does not have mandatory recounts, but when the apparent margin of victory is 1 percent or less in statewide or multi-county races, or 1.5 percent or less in legislative or single county races, a candidate can request a recount free of charge.
When the margin is larger, the candidate must pay a deposit. That money is refunded if the result is overturned by the recount.
Wednesday was the last day that a candidate could request a recount in a non-ranked-choice race, according to the secretary of state’s office.
Maine
Transgender support groups in Maine see spike in contacts after election
Transgender support groups in Maine said they are seeing a spike in contacts similar to those reported by national LGBTQ+ groups since Donald Trump’s election last week.
Bre Danvers-Kidman with the Maine Trans Net said about 100 people came to the group’s post-election support event and that many others have reached out through various platforms in the week since.
Some have expressed fears about losing their gender affirming care, the potential roll back of Title IV protections and a rise in harmful rhetoric.
Danvers-Kidman said that though there is valid concern about federal funding for care being rolled back, Maine has its own protections in place.
“We have the good laws here, we have the infrastructure to fight those battles with. And so to the extent that those battles rear their heads, Maine is going to be a place where I feel like we can fight them and we can win,” Danvers-Kidman said.
They expressed confidence that the “good laws” in Maine would remain, even if policy changed at a federal level.
“If the state offers greater protection to citizens than the federal government, the state wins. And so those greater protections that Maine offers to trans people, those will hold. I expect those to hold,” Danvers-Kidman said.
The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ+ youth, reported a 700% increase in crisis contacts the day after the election.
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