‘Staycation’ travel series continues with Lewiston Auburn area presentation

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August 18, 2020

‘Staycation’ travel series continues with Lewiston Auburn area presentation

CAMDEN — Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Shanna Cox will deliver an online presentation on the Lewiston Auburn Community at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, through the Camden Public Library. The program is part of the library’s Maine “Staycation” travel series. The program will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Email […]
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August 18, 2020

Auburn embraces public art projects

AUBURN – The City of Auburn is embracing public art in a big way. City leadership has recently approved two public art projects slated for unveiling in 2021. The first project is the finalist from the Maine Arts Commission grant awarded to LA Metro Chamber of Commerce and L/A Arts. Maine sculptor Hugh Lassen’s work, […]
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August 18, 2020

Maine author wins 2020 International Book Award for children’s fiction

LOVELL — Lovell author Elizabeth Atkinson’s book, “Fly Back, Agnes,” has won the 2020 International Book Award for Children’s Fiction at the American Book Fest. Jeffrey Keen, president and CEO of American Book Fest, said this year’s contest yielded over 2,000 entries from authors and publishers around the world, which were then narrowed down to […]
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August 18, 2020

Winners announced for this year’s Nordica Scholarship

FARMINGTON — The Nordica Memorial Association has announced the winners of this year’s Nordica scholarship. It is awarded to a student of singing in Maine who aspires to a career in singing. This year’s contest resulted in a tie, with Kaleigh Hunter of Saco and Emma Jones of South Portland as winners. In “normal times” […]
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August 18, 2020

Documentary to help raise funds for Vienna Union Hall

VIENNA — There are 17 towns in the USA called Vienna. Jasmin Al-Kattib and Richard Kromp of Vienna, Austria, decided to travel to the USA and visit some of those Viennas. In the summer of 2017, they started their journey in Vienna, Maine. They met with the Vienna Historical Society for lunch, they were guided […]
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August 18, 2020

Looking Back on Aug. 18

100 Years Ago: 1920 At a committee meeting held recently at Stevens Mills Grange Hall it was decided to hold the annual Grange field day at Macomber’s Beach on Taylor Pond, on Saturday. Members are requested to bring a basket lunch, and ice cream will be on sale. A general good day is being planned […]
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August 17, 2020

Gallery 302 welcomes new exhibiting artist

BRIDGTON — Sandra Lee Kimball is a new exhibiting artist at Gallery 302. Kimball has been a creator and artist as far back as she can remember. When she was 5, her dad gave her a jack knife of her own after she kept asking to use his to carve wood and plaster of Paris. […]
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August 17, 2020

Submissions sought for pop-up art show centered on racial justice

A one-day pop-up art show in downtown Bar Harbor, “Art for Justice: Working Towards Equity,” is seeking artists to produce works. This exhibition seeks to explore issues of racial justice and to inspire positive change from a place of creativity within our community. It will feature new works by local artists that encourage constructive community […]
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August 17, 2020

Illustrator Kate Erwin newest artist at Gallery 302

BRIDGTON — Primarily an illustrator, Kate Erwin is inspired by narratives. She loves nothing more than the combination of words and pictures and the stories they can tell together. Erwin, who recently joined the group of more than 40 exhibiting artists at Gallery 302, recently opened a small creative collaboration company called Big Bear Studios […]
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August 17, 2020

Looking Back on Aug. 17

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Twelfth Maine regimental association will hold its annual reunion at Lake Grove today at the grange hall. It is expected that there will be a big attendance, both of association members and their comrades and friends. There were ninety survivors in the Winchester Battle With Sheridan Twenty Miles away. 50 […]

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