The Victoria Mansion has received a $7,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host the Big Read, an NEA initiative designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
Students from Casco Bay High School will be at Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, from noon to 1:30 p.m. today to interview people in the community about what matters to them.
Kate McKeown, a 10th-grader from Leavitt Area High School in Turner, will represent Maine at the National Poetry Out Loud finals in Washington, D.C., in April. She will compete for a $20,000 college scholarship.
McKeown won the state finals in Lewiston earlier this month.
