If you wish to see a wharf that the winter’s ice cannot destroy, you ought to visit the cottage of the Champlain Club at Lake Sabatis. The wharf is 12 feet high and is constructed of railroad ties and rocks. For three months the members have been working on the wharf, which is practically completed. […]

TOPSHAM – The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra will perform its annual holiday concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at Orion Performing Arts Center. Admission is free.Four vocal soloists – Danielle Vayenas, soprano; Alexandra Dietrich, alto; David Goulet, tenor; and Dan Cyr, bass – will perform selections from Handel’s “Messiah.”The audience will be invited to sing […]

The rock band Sparks The Rescue will perform Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the 2008 WCYY Holiday Bizarre at The Station in Portland. Band members, above, are Nate Spencer, Ben Briggs, Alex Roy, Pat O’Connell and Toby McAllister. Also playing will be Lost On Liftoff and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. The show will begin at 6 p.m. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Movie crowds kept up their holiday spirit as Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn’s comedy “Four Christmases” rang up $18.2 million to lead the box office for a second-straight weekend. The Warner Bros. flick raised its 12-day total to $70.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “‘Four Christmases’ was set up perfectly. […]

NEW YORK (AP) – As the quest for the First Dog continues, Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx thinks he’s come up with the perfect solution for the President-elect and his family. “A pitbull,” the entertainer said. “(I’m) trying to pick out Barack Obama’s Christmas puppy right now, so we’re working hard on that,” he joked. […]

“This is lovely bean soup, – only I don’t like bean soup,” tactfully declared a small girl in the cooking class at the Lewiston Social Settlement the other day. Exclamations of “Oh, you mustn’t say that,” and “That isn’t polite,” with a round of laughter, went up from the other small cooks.The child, who in […]

NEW YORK (AP) – David Gregory’s new job as moderator of “Meet the Press” was made official Sunday with an announcement on the long-running NBC interview program that he will take over starting next week. The 38-year-old chief White House correspondent was introduced by Tom Brokaw, who stepped in as temporary host last June after […]

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HAVANA (AP) – Actor Benicio del Toro says he admires Ernesto Guevara but the revolutionary icon he plays in the recent film biography “Che” would not need to resort to armed struggle if he were alive today. Del Toro told a news conference Sunday at the Latin American Film Festival in Havana that he respects […]

MECHANIC FALLS – A country music show and dance will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, at the Silver Spur Club.Bands for the afternoon include The Country Drifters, Lolalee & The Country Bandits and The Jones Dance Band along with Brenda Millett, Russ Adams, Fred Corvette and Mike Ferrucci.Admission is $5 […]