100 Years Ago: 1924 A new Red Cross-YWCA class in home nursing and care of the sick is to be formed. This class will start Monday 3 at 7:30 o’clock. These classes which are of interest to many Lewiston-Auburn girls are formed by the cooperation of the Red Cross and the YWCA, and will be […]
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RESCHEDULED: ‘The Kitchen Table’ storytelling event has been postponed
“The Kitchen Table,” the Rangeley Friends of the Arts personal storytelling performance planned on Thursday, Feb. 22, has been rescheduled to Monday, July 15. This multi-media event comes with dual invitations: One to those wishing to tell their tales and another to those looking to listen to others tell their tales. First, if you are […]
Recycled Shakespeare Company to present ‘Richard III’
Performances are planned in Fairfield, Augusta, and at the new Playhouse at Waterville Station.
Looking Back on Feb. 20
100 Years Ago: 1924 Visitors never fail to comment on the manner in which specimens of birds and game are displayed at the museum in the State House connected with the Fish and Game department. It is so different from what they see in other places. No long rows of shelves upon which stand stiffly mounted birds or […]
Jud Caswell to presents ‘A Morning Cordial Retrospective’ in Brunswick
Jud Caswell presents “A Morning Cordial Retrospective” as part of the UUCB Concerts for a Cause at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, at the UU Church of Brunswick at 1 Middle St. in Brunswick. Doors open at 7 p.m. This concert will be a “Morning Cordial Retrospective” celebrating the pressing of Jud’s 5th CD, “Keep […]
Kevin Libby to play Cabin Fever Concert in Turner
Music for Mavis will host Kevin Libby for the second show of the Cabin Fever Concert Series from 6:30-8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, in the Community Room at the Turner Center Community Library. Libby is an accomplished country singer/song writer/and recording artist from a highly musical family. He has opened for acts such as […]
Looking Back on Feb. 19
100 Years Ago: 1924 Byron Plummer, one of Augusta’s popular young men, who is spending the winter in the south, at present being located at Aramond Beach, Florida sent his mother, Mrs. A.L. Plummer of Higgins Street, a crate of oranges and grapefruits recently. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The Garden Club of the Women’s Literary Union […]
Looking Back on Feb. 17
100 Years Ago: 1924 There will be a rehearsal of the combined orchestras of Edward Little and Jordan High at the auditorium of the Dingley Training School in Lewiston this afternoon at 4 o’clock. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Dr. Jacqueline Poirier of Whitney St, Auburn entertained the Ruth Circle of the Auburn United Methodist Women when […]
Looking Back on Feb. 16
100 Years Ago: 1924 Movie fans will find following the motion pictures quite profitable if they follow up the series of New England in Motion Pictures which is to begin at 100 of the best motion picture theaters in New England next Monday. The theater to be selected in Lewiston is the Strand, and each […]
Looking Back on Feb. 15
100 Years Ago: 1924 Real winter weather under blue skies and a smiling sun greeted the second day of Auburn’s big carnival, Friday. Whetted by the taste of the opening events of Thursday, the winter sports fans were eager for the program to be resumed. Public schools were closed at noon in order to permit […]