GREENE — Fiddlers Owen Kennedy, 13, and Josh White, 16, will be performing at 7 p.m. Friday, July 27, at the Sawyer Memorial. Owen Kennedy and Josh White are two up-and-coming musicians whose lively arrangements take their listeners from Quebec and the Canadian Maritimes over the sea to Eastern Europe, Ireland and Scotland, and back […]
2018
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Encore, Livermore Falls Advertiser, Rumford Falls Times, sj-web, The Franklin Journal
Moore Park Makers Fair offers something for everyone
SOUTH PARIS — From a car show with a mini monster truck, arts and crafts booths, and pony rides to super heroes, a bouncy house and great local foods, there will be something for everyone at the Moore Park Makers Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 28. The rain date is Sunday, […]
advertisement
Posted inConnections, sj-web
Briefly: Local
Green and Mirror Pond Association OXFORD — Green and Mirror Ponds Association will hold its annual association meeting on Saturday, July 28, at the Oxford Recreational Center. The meeting will start at 3 p.m. Current members, future members and the general public are invited. The Association will provide hamburgers and hot dogs and all those attending are […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Have their heads in the sand
The public sector employees who felt compelled to pay union fees or dues to unions they did not belong to are probably celebrating the recent Supreme Court ruling that claimed it was a violation of the First Amendment on free speech (see Elliott Epstein’s Rearview Mirror article “Supreme Court’s Janus decision upsets union balance, in […]
Posted inNational Sports
Price, Red Sox win again, blank Tigers 1-0
DETROIT (AP) — David Price took a shutout into the seventh inning, and the Boston Red Sox kept right on rolling in their first game after the All-Star break, beating the Detroit Tigers 1-0 on Friday night. The Red Sox (69-30) have won 13 of their last 14, and on this night, one run in […]
Posted inLocal Sports
Kent leads Sea Dogs to shutout win over Yard Goats
PORTLAND (AP) — Matthew Kent allowed just five hits over eight innings, leading the Portland Sea Dogs over the Hartford Yard Goats in a 6-0 win on Friday. Kent (6-7) struck out five and walked one to get the win. In the bottom of the third, Portland grabbed the lead on a double by Josh […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, River Valley
Mexico officials shopping for sidewalk plow
Mexico looking to purchase sidewalk plow MEXICO — Selectmen have authorized Town Manager Jack Gaudet and Highway Foreman John Blais to go to Ottawa, Ontario, to shop for a used sidewalk plow. “We need something real quick,” Selectman Reggie Arsenault said. Board Chairman Richie Philbrick said the town has two sidewalk plows. “They both have more […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston doctor arrested on domestic assault charge
AUBURN — Lewiston urologist Joel S. Olstein, 72, was arrested at his Auburn home Thursday night and charged with domestic assault. At about 8 p.m., police went to 48 Waterview Drive on the east shore of Taylor Pond where Olstein lives with his wife. He was arrested at the scene. On Friday, police said only that […]
Posted inBethel, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, The Bethel Citizen
Telstar High School celebrating 50th anniversary
BETHEL — A class of 91 high school seniors walked through the doors of a new school for the first time on Sept. 19, 1968. Nearly 50 years later, they’re coming together to lead the annual Molly Ockett Day parade at 11 a.m. Saturday. The class will have two convertibles in place of a float […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Police log
Auburn * Jonas Denzel Ryerson, 21, of 81 Howard St., Lewiston, on a warrant, 2:16 p.m. Thursday at 484 Center St. Androscoggin County * Aaron Waite, 27, of 8 Hailey St., Lewiston, arrested by the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department on charges of violating conditions of release and driving without a license, 8:30 a.m. Friday on […]