CARTHAGE – Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center will host Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, singer/songwriter Buddy MacDonald with fiddler Rachel Davis at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8. A preshow jam will begin at 6:30.The two performed Wednesday at Lakeside Theater in Rangeley at the first of six concerts to shared by Skye and Lakeside this year. […]

The Intergalactic Yurt Band from Portland will perform bluegrass Friday, May 9, at She Doesn’t Like Guthries, 115 Middle St., Lewiston. Band members, from left, are Tammy Neilson, Karen Huber, Rob Neilson, Dave Philbrick, Kirk Carlson and Shawn Casey. The show starts at 8 p.m. There is no cover. For more information, call 376-3344 or […]

AUBURN – Patricia Probert Gott of South Paris recently had her fifth book published and will have a book-signing from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at Waldenbooks in the Auburn Mall.“Cowgirl Days,” the second book in her Cowgirl series published by PublishAmerica, takes readers to the next season of training young horses and […]

LEWISTON – Just Us, a local musical group, will perform in concert Friday, May 9, at the Multi-Purpose Center. Proceeds from the evening, featuring song and comedy, will benefit the Lewiston Senior Citizens program.The show will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets for general admission are $5 in advance, $6 at the door. Tickets can be […]

LEWISTON – On Saturday, May 10, the Franco-American Heritage Center will come alive with the legacy of Maine folk musician Tom Rowe. That’s when the fourth annual Remembering Tom Rowe, A Celebration in Song concert benefiting the Maine Cancer Foundation will be held, beginning at 7:30.An Auburn native, Rowe was a founding member of the […]

• Yesterday the Sturgis deputies visited Pierre Toulouse’s house on Lincoln Street and seized a quantity of wet goods. Toulouse was also detained. His case will be heard in the Lewiston police court this morning. At the Upper Main Central station, Lewiston yesterday the Sturgis deputies seized a quantity of liquor from the team of […]

LEWISTON – On Friday, May 9, the Lewiston Public Library will offer a breakfast showing of “Kick Like a Girl,” a documentary film about what happens when an undefeated third-grade girls soccer team leaves its own league to do battle with the boys.Open to the public free of charge, the screening will begin at 9:30 […]

Jake Davis, left, and Dereck Johnson of Solarus perform at a recent open mic at the Pleasant Note Coffeehouse at First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. The next open mic/poetry slam will be held Friday, May 9. Sign-up is at 7:15 p.m., with the show to start at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. […]

• The Androscoggin County Republican Convention was held in Auburn Hall Tuesday at 11 a.m. The full number of delegates was present and many spectators were in attendance. There were but two contests: one for the nomination of judge of probate and the other for county commissioner. A. L. Kavanagh, for judge of probate, was […]

LEWISTON – Women in Harmony, a chorus of women’s voices dedicated to the power of music to further social justice, will perform Saturday and Sunday, May 10-11.The ensemble will present “How Can I Keep from Singing,” a concert of choral music at 7 p.m. Saturday at State Street Church in Portland and at 2 p.m. […]