The Hartford Heritage Society’s “Springing into Summer” garden tour will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 14. Last year, the tour featured mid-summer gardens throughout Hartford. This year, a new vista of early blooming annuals and perennials will be enjoyed. A free light luncheon of pies, salads, beverages and dessert pies […]

OGUNQUIT – Renowned comedienne Paul Poundstone will headline Jonathan’s Restaurant in Ogunquit July 4-5. Considered one of the foremost stand-up comics working today, Poundstone is known for her spontaneous wit and candid interactions with audience members – talents that make her a popular panelist on NPR’s “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!,” the Peabody Award-winning series featuring […]

The buildings on the corner of Turner and Court streets on the lot upon which the National Shoe and Leather Bank is to be built were sold at auction Wednesday forenoon. The cobbler shop was bid in by D.P. Andrews for $8. The other buildings were sold to Charles Greenleaf for $94.• The old saying […]

BETHEL – Noted author and publisher Neil Rolde of York, who wrote “The Baxters of Maine” and “An Illustrated History of Maine,” will be the featured speaker Thursday, June 12, as part of the Bethel Historical Society Series “Maine History: Varied and Vivid.”Rolde will discuss “The Enigma of James G. Blaine” beginning at 7:30 p.m. […]

GRAY – Citing an urgent need to address the health of Maine lakes and watersheds, several Portland groups are banding together to present a June 17 lecture titled “Green Lawns, Clear Lakes: How & Why to Garden Organically.” Featured will be nationally recognized author and lecturer Paul Tukey.The free event will begin at 7 p.m. […]

PARIS – Jeanette Kennedy Baldridge of Paris will open Old Home Days events at the West Paris Library Friday, June 13, with a book-signing and discussion of “Ordinary Days,” her book of autobiographical vignettes.The essays in this book are about geographical places in Maine and the New Mexico desert, where she grew up. They are […]

Go and doWHO: Harpist Deborah Henson-ConantWHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, July 12WHERE: Celebration Barn Theatre, 190 Stock Farm Road, ParisTICKETS: $20 for adults, $16 for seniors and childrenBOX OFFICE: 743-8452 Concert or theater? Grammy-nominated harpist blends the two with her revolutionary style PARIS – Deborah Henson-Conant straps on her harp like an electric guitar and strides […]

CARTHAGE – The concert by the highly acclaimed Celtic band Pogey scheduled for Wednesday, June 11, at Skye Theatre is sold out. Tickets are still available for the band’s second concert Thursday, June 12, at Lakeside in Rangeley. For tickets, call 562-4445.The concert will begin at 7 p.m., with a preshow jam starting at 6:30. […]

BURNSWICK – Maine State Music Theatre will supplement its four main stage shows this season with a concert version of the 1926 operetta “The Desert Song.” The operetta, set in the early French outposts in the exotic Moroccan desert, was a favorite of MSMT founder Victoria Crandall and features book and lyrics by Otto Harbach, […]

Baron Ladislaus Hengelmuller von Hengervar, the ambassador to this country from Austria-Hungary, and Baroness Hengelmuller were among the arrivals at Bar Harbor Saturday. They went on to the Teviot cottage on Kebo Street, which they have taken for the summer. They have not been at Bar Harbor for several seasons, and as they have been […]