RUMFORD – Mountain Valley High School students will present “The Importance of Being Earnest” at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 10-11, in Muskie Auditorium.The well-known play is set in 19th century England where a couple of aristocratic men try to win the love of two proper young ladies through means of harmless deceit.Jack Worthing, […]

GRAY – The Fiddlehead Center will hold live and silent auctions Saturday, April 12, in support of local educational offerings. The auction will begin at 7 p.m. at the center’s 25 Shaker Road location.Doors will open at 6 p.m. There will be live entertainment, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.Drawing from the Fiddlehead Center’s programs, the theme […]

NORWAY – A landmark collaboration of Oxford Hills businesses and organizations is supporting the upcoming performances of “The Glass Menagerie” by the Oxford Hills Music and Performing Arts Association.Several community events have been planned by OHMPAA to lend added dimension to the group’s production of the classic Tennessee Williams play, scheduled from April 18 to […]

LEEDS – Crystal Rona Peterson, a 2005 graduate of Leavitt Area High School, will co-star in the Cortland Repertory Theatre of New York’s summer production of “Eight Track … the Sound of the Seventies.”Peterson graduated this year with a degree in theater arts from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, where she studied under Dan […]

BETHEL – Grand Dérangement, a musical group from Acadia, will bring its lively blend of folk, rock, Celtic and French music to Gould Academy Thursday, April 10. The performance, which includes several step dancers, offers poetic songs that while insightful also defy audience members to sit still.Grand Dérangement’s style is influenced by elements of Acadian […]

• Whether woman are immediately successful or not in their campaign for the right to vote, the fact remains that at the present time the interests, clubs and organizations of women are being discussed to an extent that exceeds any other topic, even national politics.All this suffrage agitation of the country is not so powerful […]

NORWAY – “The Glass Menagerie,” one of American theater’s classics, will be presented April 18-27 by the Oxford Hills Music and Performing Arts Association.Area organizations and businesses are participating in several community events leading to the production of the Tennessee Williams play (see accompanying story).“The story illuminates life,” said Tom Littlefield, director. “It is about […]

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, – American reggae band Big Mountain will headline this year’s Bud Light Reggae Festival at Sugarloaf April 10-13 when the resort celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original springtime event.Big Mountain will headline a group of 10 bands that will play at three different indoor and outdoor venues day and night throughout the […]

POLAND – If you like the Bard raucous, energetic and over the edge, then the Poland Players’ spring production of “The Compleat Works of Wlllm Shapespr Abridged” is right up your alley.If one Shakespearen play is good, two would be better and wouldn’t all 36 be the best? That is the premise of “The Compleat […]

Not only was a quantity of liquor and quite a number of empty bottles found at 200 Main street, Auburn, Saturday night by the police while there raiding, but Henry Huse and Margaret Pitchforth were found in the same room. They were placed under arrest as well as the landlady, Mrs. William Hines. All three […]