You can’t choose your family, as the saying goes. But you can choose your family reunion.And plenty of families are: From long weekends in centrally located cities to elaborate weeklong vacations at the beach, the family reunion has become big business, spawning books and Web sites and professional planners who help families organize their special […]

As I slaved away prepping my little girl’s third birthday party a few weeks ago – baking the cupcakes, buying the balloons, assembling the goody bags -I couldn’t help but wonder if I should tone it down a bit.Would she even remember a single moment of this mega-party I was creating?I scanned my brain for […]

For the past two weeks, I’ve been doing something really difficult. I’ve been doing nothing. My Type-A, multitasker, git-‘er-done-right-this-minute personality is thrown out of whack and in full rebellion, protesting vigorously to the nth degree as I recline on the couch – my newly reconstructed right foot propped on a pillow tower.In the past 14 […]

Keds is offering shoe-lovers some funky wedges and ballet flats this season. With new patterns and unique designs in the same comfortable and durable canvas, the iconic shoe company has stepped up its style level this season.The Kedette Wedges are flirty in plaid and floral patterns with jaunty bow accents, sneaker influences and Mary Jane […]

BATH -The Brunswick Nor’easter Barbershop Chorus will hold an open house/guest night at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, at the Chocolate Church.A long established barbershop chorus, the Nor’easters recently won a trophy for Most Improved Chorus out of 10 groups in the Northeast District competition held in Nashua, N.H. the Nor’easters also won first place […]

AUBURN – “Diamonds” is a show that’s all about baseball.It’s coming up on the Lewiston-Auburn Community Little Theatre stage for two shows only on April 26-27, and it looks like the local team has all the bases covered.It’s a musical revue that Celeste Philippon, director and producer, describes as “basically a New York variety show.”There’s […]

LEWISTON – The Toughcats of North Haven Island will return to She Doesn’t Like Guthries Saturday, April 19, to perform high-energy bluegrass.Making up the trio are Jake Greenlaw, drums and his suitcase; Colin Gulley, banjo and mandolin; and Joseph Robert Nelson, guitar, uke and lead vocals.The show will start at 8 p.m. There is no […]

PORTLAND – The steamship Southwark of the Dominican line arrived in port this afternoon from Liverpool via Halifax, having left the former port April 9. The Southwark landed nearly 500 passengers at Halifax and 129 at this port. Twelve of the number landed here were detained for lack of funds to enable them to proceed. […]

Singer/songwriter/poet John Perrault, who is originally from Maine, will raise the voices of Abraham Lincoln and freedom warriors Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Tuesday, April 22, at the Rumford Public Library. He will present a free program, “Abe Lincoln Walks at Midnight – Singing the Promise of the Declaration: Abolition and Women’s Suffrage,” beginning […]

Reports from Sabattus Pond Friday state that the ice is nearly all broken up and it is thought that it will all be gone by Sunday. Since the heavy wind of the first of the week and the warm sun the past two days the ice has begun to break up and with much more […]