Sam Waterston’s long march into television history continues Wednesday night.Waterson has played the crusading Jack McCoy in 327 episodes of the NBC crime drama “Law & Order.” It becomes 328 Wednesday when the 19th season opens.Only a handful of actors have played the same role on a prime-time scripted series longer than the “Law & […]

“To Catch the Lightning” (Sourcebooks Inc. 512 pages. $25.95), by Alan Cheuse: In the glowing, sepia-toned image printed in 1903, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce poses as a warrior in defeat, decades after he surrendered to the U.S. government.NPR commentator Alan Cheuse examines the plight of Joseph and other American Indians at the turn […]

BATH – Come celebrate the end of the election season with The Capitol Steps. Comedic, satirical and political commentary in song, The Capitol Steps, the only group in Washington that attempts to be funnier than the United States Congress, is a troupe of former Congressional staffers who travel the country satirizing the very people and […]

Gallery 302 of Bridgton welcomes Barbara Traficonte as the guest artist for Nov. 8 through Dec. 5. Traficonte is a painter who works in pastels, oils and watercolor. She is known for her plein air landscapes of our beautiful Maine landscape. She wants the viewer to feel what she felt when she painted the piece. […]

100 years ago, 1908 Lake Auburn never looked any prettier than it did Sunday, says an Auburn man. The wind was blowing a gale from the northwest, stirring the water into waves as large as a hogshead which broke regularly into whitecaps. Under the bright autumn sun the water reflected no less than five different […]

NORWAY – Scenes of “The Night Before Christmas” will decorate downtown Norway for the holiday season this year, as part of the Norway Business Association’s 2008 Holiday Coloring Contest, which is open to all area children.Children between the ages of 5 and 12 must enter their interpretations of the “The Night Before Christmas” by Nov. […]

AUBURN – Two local men who were child survivors of the Holocaust will speak at 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 9, at Temple Shalom Synagogue-Center, 74 Bradman St., in observance of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” that began the Nazi reign of terror against the Jews of Germany 70 years ago.Temple Shalom […]

NORWAY – the Commons Art Collective will host an opening of original and new art, “Art Moves Art,” to celebrate 20 years of the Art Moves Dance Project, conceived and lead by dancer Debi Irons, on Friday, Nov. 7.The opening is part of a three-venue evening-long gala that will begin with a silent auction at […]

Photo Finish is hosting the Art Walk on Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Nov. 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Auburn Mall. Approximately 20 local artists will be showing and selling their art at the North end of the mall. The variety of art includes paintings, stained glass, […]

NORWAY – Birdie Googins, aka The Marden’s Lady, will bring her fun, kooky one-woman show to the Second Congregational Church, UCC, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15.Martha Lello, aka Karmo Sanders, Birdie Googins and The Marden’s Lady, is no stranger to Norway. She was raised in the parsonage of the Second Congregational Church and graduated […]