Q I’ve suffered a few setbacks and disappointments in the last year, and seem to be bogged down in them. I don’t seem able to bounce back. Motivational speaker W. Mitchell has been quoted as saying “It’s not what happens to us that matters, it’s what we do about it that makes the difference.”When presented […]

Even in the neatest of homes, children’s bedrooms are magnets for clutter. Parents battle the constant influx of stuff – everything from school art projects to gifts from grandparents, hand-me-downs from friends and the plastic freebies that come with fast-food meals.These rooms also tend to be the smallest in the house, so managing clutter can […]

• A big improvement has been made in the appearance of the corner of Ridge and Webster streets by the cutting down of some ancient cedars that hid the view of the Tibbetts’ residence. When the repairs are made on the terrace work ,this corner will be the best looking in the village.• From all […]

LEWISTON – An exhibition of delicate works on paper and handcrafted document boxes from the 18th and 19th centuries will open Saturday, June 7, at the Bates College Museum of Art.“Flourishing Folk: New England Decorated Works on Paper and Document Boxes from the Deborah N. Isaacson Trust” represents Bates in the Maine Folk Art Trail, […]

Old Grey Goose band members, center, inspire dancers from a local performing troupe at the International Music Festival in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Old Grey Goose will bring a bit of Turkmenistan to Lewiston LEWISTON – The itinerant Maine folk quartet Old Grey Goose International will present a musical travelogue titled “On the Road to Turkmenistan” at […]

AUGUSTA – The Concerts at Jewett Series, put on by the University of Maine at Augusta College of Arts and Humanities and UMA Senior College, will feature the Nordica Trio Sunday, May 18, at Jewett Hall Auditorium.There will be a pre-concert talk at 1 p.m., with the performance to begin at 2 p.m.Making up the […]

AUBURN – The Drama Society at St. Dominic Regional High School will present “School House Rock Live!,” an Emmy Award-winning musical based on the 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series, Friday and Saturday, May 30-31.Tom, a teacher nervous about his first day of school, tries to relax by watching TV when characters, representing various aspects of […]

More is more in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” the follow-up to the 2005 fantasy hit “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.” It’s simultaneously darker and funnier, more substantive and more engaging, more violent and more technically accomplished.You can’t really call it a sequel because it’s an adaptation of […]

LEWISTON – Bates College will present the American and English-language premiere of a work by Hungary’s leading playwright, György Spiró, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 16-18.Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturdayand at 2 p.m. Sunday in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, 2 Andrews Road. Admission is $6 for the general public, $3 for […]

• FOR SALE: Old established grocery business, good location, including store with stock and fixtures and two teams. Cash sales amounting to $50 per day at the present time. Owner wishes to sell on account of ill health. Ridlon Bros., 1 Sabattus St., Lewiston, Me.• “A fact of pleasing interest to the people of York […]