LISBON – Kantele Laulu Inc., a nonprofit organization promoting awareness of the kantele, the national instrument of Finland, will present a concert featuring professional musicians from Finland Friday, Aug. 8.Among the performers are Vilma Timonen, Topi Korhonen, Anna-Karin Korhonen and Erkki Okkonen. The Maine Kanteles, a local ensemble, will also perform at the 7 p.m. […]

FARMINGTON – Sometimes an empty hole can turn out to be full of all sorts of things. That’s what young Stanley Yelnats learns as he endures a summer at Camp Green Lake in Farmington Children’s Summer Theater Camp’s production of “Holes.”Louis Sachar’s contemporary classic story will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. […]

GRAY – The public is invited to the Maine Wildlife Park Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 9-10, for the fourth annual Native American Honor The Animals Pow Pow. The family event, well attended by area Native Americans, most in full native regalia, will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on both days.There will be […]

Mark and Sheena Peillet, above, of Music Reflections disc jockey service will provide music from the ’50s and ’60s for the third annual Taber’s Flashback Sock Hop Saturday, Aug. 9. The fundraiser for the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society will run from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the parking lot at Taber’s Lakeside Stand, 473 Lake […]

TURNER – Disney’s “Aladdin, Jr.,” Central Maine Children’s Theater Project’s next show, “will be among the best we’ve done,” enthused 14-year-old Jesse Juntura of Greene, who has been with the project since its first production four years ago.Juntura has acted in every CMCTP and will play Aladdin in “Aladdin, Jr.,” the project’s seventh production and […]

BRUNSWICK – The Second Friday Art Walk on Aug. 8 will feature work by dozens of artists, all on view from 5 to 8 p.m. in downtown in Brunswick and Topsham. People are encouraged to take a self-guided tour from VSA Arts Gallery on Park Row to Artifacts in Topsham.At Kat Logan Open Studio at […]

• Forty thousand people who get their drinking water from Lake Auburn – or at least a considerate portion of them – hold up their hands in horror every time someone is so unfortunate as to get drowned there, and turn to the spring water dispensary. The thought that several years ago men were lost […]

TOPSHAM – The Oratorio Chorale invites singers to audition for its 2008-2009 season from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at Mid-Coast Presbyterian Church.The chorale, under the direction of Peter Frewen, is an auditioned chorus of about 60 singers from 20 communities. It performs three concerts a year at venues in Bath, Freeport, […]

TEANECK, N.J. (AP) – On an evening its rivals were preoccupied with Christie Brinkley’s divorce and the capture of a Brooklyn murder suspect, New York’s WXTV led its local news with a story about graffiti saying “Get out of the USA” painted near a Peruvian restaurant on Long Island. The Spanish-speaking Univision affiliate figured it […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but the disease was caught early and the actress is expected to fully recover, her publicist said. The Emmy winner’s cancer was detected through an MRI ordered by a doctor and is not life-threatening, publicist Ame Van Iden said in a statement Saturday. […]