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Fitness Kickboxing for Beginners

$60

with Meagan Rudge, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Oct 2, 2026 at 5:30 pm, runs for 3 weeks
1 additional session on Jan 8, 2027

Learn proper punches, kicks, and combinations with a NASM Certified Personal Trainer! This fun, high-energy series combines bag training, 1:1 mitt work, and adjustable cardio conditioning for all levels. Free glove and wrap rentals included. Sweat, learn, and crush your goals in a supportive environment! Led by Meagan Rudge of DöRū Fitness, NASM Certified Personal Trainer & Head Trainer.

Sip & Sgraffito

$50

with Turning Arts Studio, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Oct 2, 2026 at 7 pm, runs for 1 week
2 additional sessions through Feb 5, 2027

Enjoy a relaxing evening sipping hot chocolate or tea while carving thoughtful designs into pre-made pottery by Janna and Zachary. Learn the sgraffito technique—scratching through colored slip to reveal the clay beneath—and leave your piece for firing. Finished work ready for pickup two weeks later. All tools and materials provided. *A $20 materials fee is payable to the instructor. No experience needed.

The Art of Writing Horror

$50

with Laurie Notch, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Oct 3, 2026 at 10 am, runs for 5 weeks

Tis the spooky season and time to build a monster of a story for chills and thrills. Learn how to stitch the parts of a plot, setting, and character together into hair-raising tales of things that go bump in the night. Class takes place on Zoom. Students must have reliable internet, and an audio and video enable computer, tablet, or smartphone to participate.

Star Party

$20

with Southern Maine Astronomers, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Oct 3, 2026 at 6 pm, runs for 1 week

Interested in the night sky? Join us for an enchanted evening of star-gazing! Hosted by members of Southern Maine Astronomers (SMA), these ‘star parties’ include naked eye, binocular, telescopic, or electronically-aided telescopic viewing with the support of trained volunteers, as well as brief talks or demonstrations focused on the how-to's of observing. SMA is a community of folks interested in astronomy, a few of us even do that as a job. We learn and exchange ideas at meetings that include an astronomy talk and open mic discussions of recent observing experiences or other astro-bites. The tone is light, we're in this for fun. We look at (or photograph) stuff in the sky at our star parties, talk about the objects we see, share views and information about our gear. *Rain/Cloud Date: 10/17.

A.I. Event: Understanding Artificial Intelligence

$70

with Preethi Fernando, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Oct 4, 2026 at 9 am, runs for 1 week
1 additional session on Jan 3, 2027

Get your artificial intelligence crash course in one day, all from the comfort of your couch! Fun, easy to follow. Enjoy intro AI classes and classes that teach you how AI can bring you side income, how to find grants and scholarships for college, growing your small business with AI tools, and more. Ideal for small business owners, retirees, seniors, managers, stay at home folks, parents, and anyone who is curious about what AI can do. You can join all the classes or sit in only on the ones you like. Topics covered will include: 1. How to Use Chat GPT; 2. How to Use Google Gemini; 3. AI Tools for Small Business Owners; 4. Side Hustle with Chat GPT: 20+ Ways to Make an Income with Chat GPT; 5. AI for Retirees; 6. How to Grow your Small Business with AI; 7. Save Big! Discount Airline Tickets, Hotels, Groceries, Using Chat GPT and AI; 8. Find the Money for College Financial Aid, Grants, and Scholarships, Using Chat GPT + AI.

Adobe Photoshop CC Essentials

$225

with Andy Helmi, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Oct 5, 2026 , runs for 4 weeks

This fundamental course covers Adobe Photoshop CC most commonly used tools, menus and panels. You’ll learn all the basics of Photoshop to effectively work with selection and editing tools, layers, and masks to edit, retouch and enhance existing images or create your own composite digital art work. Impress your business organization, friends and family by enhancing their photos and create magazine cover quality enhanced images. Access to Adobe Photoshop required. For all online Adobe classes, students are responsible for purchasing their own software for their course. Trial versions of Adobe software are sometimes available on the Adobe company website.

Boosting Your Web Site Traffic

$195

with Dan Belhassen, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Oct 5, 2026 , runs for 4 weeks

Acquire the basic skills to boost your web site traffic, including how to analyze your visitor traffic, how to use search engine optimization to get greater visibility and exposure in Google searches, and how to redesign your web site copy to increase your visitors and results. No experience necessary, but if you are at an advanced level, your instructor is an SEO expert and can answer your toughest questions as well.

General Ledger and Month End Procedures

$195

with Sharon DeFonteny, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Oct 5, 2026 , runs for 4 weeks

In this course, you will learn how to post journal entries to the correct general ledger accounts impacted by each transaction. This course will show you how to make sure your general ledger balances at the end of each month by preparing an unadjusted trial balance. You will learn how to look for errors when you don’t balance, and how to determine to correct entries. After posting correcting entries and/or adjusting entries, you will verify debits and credits equal with an adjusted trial balance. This course also goes through the steps of performing monthly bank reconciliations.





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