LEWISTON – Seven studio art majors at Bates College will show work from their yearlong thesis projects in the annual Senior Exhibition, which opens with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the Bates College Museum of Art.The Senior Exhibition artists are Chad Casey of Gardiner; Elizabeth Fahy of Carrabassett Valley; Rachel Harmeling […]

LEWISTON – The 76-voice Bates College Choir, accompanied by a 21-piece orchestra and directed by John Corrie, will present the second and third parts of Handel’s popular oratorio “Messiah” Friday, March 28, and Sunday, March 30, in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.Admission to the 8 p.m. concert is free, but tickets are required. For more […]

BATH – The crew of the Popham Beach life saving station today saved the lives of Captain J. W. Barnes and A. C. Bowker of this city after they had abandoned their scow six miles off Popham Beach and had started to row ashore. The crew had sighted the lighter evidently in distress and were […]

LEWISTON – An exhibition of woodblock prints highlighting the roles, variety and importance of kimono patterns in the Japanese genre called ukiyo-e will open with a public reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the Bates College Museum of Art.“The Kimono and Traditional Japanese Culture: Investigating Kimono through Ukiyo-e in the Bates College Art […]

Tickets to the July 15 concert go on sale Friday AUGUSTA – The Augusta Civic Center will be rockin’ Tuesday, July 15, when Bryan Adams and Foreigner take the stage. Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. concert go on sale at 8 a.m. Friday, March 28, at the Augusta Civic Center box office, 626-2400; and at […]

BRUNSWICK – Kirsten Holmstedt, author of the award-winning “Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq,” will give a talk at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at Bowdoin College.Marine Gunnery Sgt. Rosie Noel and Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Marcia Lillie, both of whom are featured in the book, will join Holmstedt for her presentation, […]

LEWISTON – A program of readings from the contemporary Indian novel “The Diary of a Maidservant” will be presented by its English-language translator Sagaree Sengupta at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, at the Lewiston Public Library.The event, which is open to the public free of charge, will take place in the Couture Room on the […]

Great indignation is felt among the residents of Danville Junction because of the granting of the petition by the County Commissioners which will go away with the grade crossings at that place. While the abolishment of the crossing will make saving the City of Auburn and is what the Maine Central, Grand Trunk and Hiram […]

BRUNSWICK – The Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association invites the public to join in the annual celebration of Cuba Week, March 28 to April 5. Since 2003, the BTSCA has been promoting cultural exchange in the arts, education, music history and cultural traditions with the residents of Trinidad, Cuba, in the spirit of respect, friendship and […]

AUBURN – For the past two months, local teens have been meeting at the Auburn Public Library each week to write and perform poetry in an L/A Arts initiative called Spoken Word.Each participant has been encouraged to express his or her thoughts, feelings, emotions and experiences without shame or self-doubt.On March 27, they invite the […]