EAST DIXFIELD — Coumntryfolk Music Theatre will be closed on Sunday, June 29, for a family funeral. They will reopen Sunday, July 6, with a full day of country music for the holiday weekend. For more information, call 207-645-4411.
June 2014
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‘Wedding Singer’ musical to open in Rangeley July 4
It’s 1985 and rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party, until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Heartbroken, he is forced to reexamine the meaning of love and marriage with the […]
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Amy and the Engine featuring Amy Allen tp play at Gardiner waterfront
GARDINER — Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, in partnership with the city of Gardiner and Gardiner Main Street, will present from 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, July 17, in Waterfront Park. This is a free event, open to the public. Guided by an ethos of lyrical depth and an accessible, folk sensibility, singer/songwriter Allen of South Portland, […]
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Feather Lungs to play at Augusta library
AUGUSTA — The Feather Lungs, an up-and-coming new band with local roots, will perform at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, as part of Lithgow Public Library’s outdoor Summer Concert Series. The concert will take place on the library lawn. The formed in the spring of 2013 after longtime musical comrades and Hallowell natives David Young […]
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Prometheus Dance gets to the ‘Heart of the Matter’ at 2014 Bates Dance Festival
LEWISTON — Prometheus Dance, Boston’s premiere dance company, opens the 2014 Bates Dance Festival with its latest work, “Heart of the Matter,” in performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 11 and 12, in Bates College’s air-conditioned Schaeffer Theatre, 329 College St. The viscerally charged and dramatic “Heart of the Matter” marks Prometheus’ 25th […]
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Nuisance bear trapped in Orono, taken to remote spot in Aroostook County
ORONO — A female adult black bear that is presumed to be one of four bears discovered in a hollow tree very close to a residence in March was successfully trapped Sunday evening and taken to a rural location north of Macwahoc on Monday morning. The bear, along with several others, had been making regular […]
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Skowhegan Drive-In to hold fundraiser to help make it make the conversion to digital
SKOWHEGAN — The Skowhegan Drive-in Theater is hoping movies by a native of son of Maine will help it raise money to make the critical conversion from film to digital. The Stephen King movies “Pet Sematary,” “Creepshow,” “The Shining” and “Christine” will be screened during a movie marathon at the drive-in in early August. Owner […]
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Shaker Village Folk Festival and evening concert is June 28
NEW GLOUCESTER — Throughout the day on Saturday, June 28, Shaker Village will present a Folk Festival featuring free, traditional, Shaker-style craft demonstrations including “From Fiber to Finish” by the R&R Spinners and blacksmithing by Tim Greene. There will be free tractor-drawn wagon rides and a sale of homemade Shaker apple fritters. There will be […]
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New graduation standards for LHS freshmen explained
LEWISTON — Lewiston High School Principal Linda MacKenzie on Monday outlined the new proficiency-based guidelines incoming freshmen must meet to graduate in 2018. “Tonight’s session is not the end of the conversation,” MacKenzie told parents gathered at Lewiston Middle School. “It’s just the beginning.” Speaking to about two dozen people, MacKenzie spoke about LD 1422, […]