BETHEL – The Mahoosuc Community Band will offer traditional favorites as well as newer selections at its holiday concert Sunday, Dec. 7, at West Parish Congregational Church.Music performed at the 4 p.m. concert will include “Sleigh Ride,” “Greensleeves,” “Go Tell It On The Mountain,” “A Christmas Medley” and a featured suite by Holtz. There will […]

FREEPORT – Wolfe’s Neck Farm will hold its annual Children’s Night Tree and Chili Fest from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6.The event is a celebration of children, winter and friendly woodland animals. Children will participate in a read aloud of “The Night Tree” by Eve Bunting, create edible crafts for woodland animals […]

AUBURN – This year’s Advocates for Children Festival, to be held Saturday, Dec. 6, will feature children’s entertainer Rick Charette and yo-yo champ Brandon Baines. Wild Life Critters from Spark’s Ark will also be a part of the event scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Dominic Regional High School. Lunch will be […]

NEW GLOUCESTER – On Saturday, Dec. 6, the New Gloucester Village Coffeehouse will feature singer/songwriter Noah Harrison, in the tradition of coffeehouse folk singers, and Lauren Hottinger, an up-and-coming acoustic soloist.Based out of Portland, Harrison has a penchant for the subtle, quiet and internal. With emotive, hypnotic fingerstyle guitar woven with poetic musings, his sound […]

Some of the engines on the Maine Central have recently been equipped with electric headlights, to the satisfaction of those thinking people who have always wondered why, with all the wonderful modern equipment of railroading, firemen still have to crawl out along the boiler to touch a match to the old kerosene headlight. The new […]

Dr. W.S. Garcelon, medical inspector in Lewiston public schools, hopes to complete his visit in the rural schools next week. The work is very slow, as everything has to be done during school hours and each pupil has to receive so many minutes of individual attention. Dr. Garcelon says that the parents are showing much […]

RANGELEY – The Christmas season in the Rangeley area will once again commence with the Walk to Bethlehem pageant and program Sunday, Dec. 7, courtesy of the Rangeley Friends of the Arts.The annual event has been a display of true holiday spirit for more than two decades. Walkers and carolers are asked to assemble, with […]

LEWISTON – The Twin Cities’ Downtown Holiday Celebration on Wednesday, Dec. 3, will kick off with some free activities for youngsters at Lewiston Public Library.At 4 p.m., there will be a festively costumed “Victorian Nutcracker” ballet show-and-tell program in Callahan Hall on the third floor of the library. This half-hour event will feature brief excerpts […]

LEWISTON – There are few things stronger than the allure of performing on a stage. After a four-year absence from theater, Dennis St. Pierre has returned to stages from Maine to Colorado and has his eye on a bright future.St. Pierre will bring his vocal talent to the concert stage of the Franco-American Heritage Center […]

The size difference between Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon isn’t the only thing keeping them apart in “Four Christmases.”His signature rat-a-tat overconfidence and her pleasing girl-next-door perkiness turns out to be an awkward mix. Individually likable, Vaughn and Witherspoon never really seem to mesh as a couple.That’s a problem, since we’re meant to root for […]