FARMINGTON — Main Street in Farmington will become “Busker Alley” for June’s First Friday Art Walk & More, Friday, June 5, from 5 to 8 p.m.  Buskers, or street performers who play for tips, are invited to set up on Main Street to showcase their diverse talents. Businesses and venues participating this First Friday are: Calico […]

CHESTERVILLE — The Wiles, a dynamic trio of acoustic musicians — Ellie Buckland, Mali Obomsawin, and Isa Burke — all of whom recently studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, will perform a benefit concert for the Friends of the Chesterville Meeting House Center at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 12. The meeting house is […]

FARMINGTON — Beginning on  Tuesday, June 9, and running every Tuesday through Aug. 25, free concerts will be held at the Meeting House gazebo. All concerts will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Please bring a chair. The concert schedule is as follows: June 9 , July 7, Aug. 4, L & D County.June 16, […]

Benefits Friday & Saturday, May 29-30: Farmington, Plant and yard sale, 8 a.m., Holman House, 227 Main St. Saturday, May 30: Yard sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Calvary Hill Baptist Church on Rts. 2 & 4 in Wilton. Rain or shine. Lots of clothes. FMI: 645-2343. Saturday, June 6: Farmington, Annual yard sale, […]

PRAY FOR JESUS I pray for Jesus to come to my house and visit. It’s morning…no Jesus; just an old man begging for a handout! This afternoon plenty of sunshine in the clear blue sky. An old lady I met needed help with her grocery buy! I was hoping Jesus would stop by! No Jesus…to […]

In every wood in every spring there is a different green, wrote Professor Tolkien, a sentiment certainly borne out by all my Maytide experiences in Maine. (On the other hand, I must admit, the year I moved here I watched open-mouthed as three inches of snow fell at my house on May 25th.) But May […]

FARMINGTON — The City Lights North Summer Camp will hold classes from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily beginning June 24. Classes end with a final performance July 12. The camp describes this as an intensive program. All participants are expected to take all classes. The camp will also have a special ballet class for […]

TEMPLE — Driving out Intervale Road it is easy to convince yourself that you may have passed Temple Stream Theater. “Keep going! Just after the little red schoolhouse. Through a tunnel of pines. Smells good tonight!” said a cheerful dog walker explained when asked for directions. The little red school house appeared in the distance and […]

FARMINGTON — What does art mean to you? That was the question asked of viewers at the May 13 Mt. Blue Art Show. The students were full of thoughts about what art means to them. Art is “piercing,” “perseverance,” “growing,” “buzzing.” Art is “a filter.” “I call her Mother Nature,” Julia Ramsey explained. “I knew I […]