NORWAY — The sixth annual Norway Maine Snowshoe Festival is Friday, Feb. 12, through Sunday, Feb. 14. The event features a unique exhibit of historic Norway-made and native North American snowshoes and Paris Manufacturing Company sleds, skis and wagons, snowshoe walks, snowshoe races, snowshoe games for the whole family and the Mellie Dunham Valentines’ Contra Dance. Recognized in 2012 […]
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About Cuba with Richard Blanco
BETHEL — Down Home Maine: A Conversation About Cuba with Richard Blanco will be held Tuesday, Jan. 12 from 4:30-6 p.m. at McLaughlin, Gould Academy. This will be an informative conversation and Q&A with author and 2013 inaugural poet Richard Blanco about what it means to be Cuban, what it means to be American, and how […]
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Tucker’s Pub in Norway to kick off the New Year with more music
NORWAY — People say when one door closes, another opens. This is exactly what happened – literally and figuratively at Tucker’s Music Pub on Main Street in Norway. Al and Anne Mallory have owned and operated the local bar and favorite music venue for more than a decade when it was in a smaller building […]
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A Christmas Cabaret a gift to the community
OXFORD HILLS — They want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of their hearts. Oxford Hills Music and Performing Arts Association presents the first-ever A Christmas Cabaret. The free concerts are scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18, at Cafe Nomad on Main Street in Norway, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, at First […]
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Things that go bump in the night: Ghost stories in Oxford Hills
OXFORD HILLS — While Darcie Rowell wouldn’t call herself a full-on believer in ghosts, she does believe alleged paranormal activity associated with hauntings and spirits isn’t out the realm of possibility. That is because she and her family had a number of experiences they can’t explain since moving to their home on Paris Hill in Paris […]
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Meet royalty at Princess Brunch
PARIS — Oxford Hills Music Art and Drama Boosters are holding a Princess Brunch on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to noon at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School cafeteria. Six of the Grimm fairy tale princes and princesses will be played by high school students to entertain children and parents who attend. Nan Brett […]
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Black, White & Red Gala
NORWAY — Black, White & Red Gala celebrates ’40s music, dance and dining, along with a raffle to win fabulous prizes for a great cause on Saturday, Nov. 7. Cottage Street Creative Exchange Inc. is a local nonprofit with a Globalocal mission – to spark integration into dance and the arts, locally and globally – one step at […]
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Calendar of events
Benefits Wilton, Friday, Oct. 9-10: Community rummage sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., First Congregational Church, 386 Main St. 585-2130. Jay, Saturday, Oct. 10: Food and rummage sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., North Jay Grange 10, Route 17. 645-4628, 645-9353. Jay, Saturday, Oct. 10: Daughters of Isabella fall bazaar, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., St. Rose of Lima parish hall, […]
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Buckfield’s new Reader’s Theater lets imaginations run wild
BUCKFIELD — “We know now that in the early years of the 20th century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own,” Bud Santos reads in a voice made for radio from the dimly lit meeting room at the Zadoc Long Free Library. “We know now that […]