100 years ago, 1909 Parents who were planning to start their little children attending the schools in this city this spring will be interested to know that in the bylaws of the Lewiston School Board is a clause which will prohibit this: “Pupils shall be regularly admitted to the first grade during the month of […]

NAPLES – Lake Region Community Theatre will hold auditions for its production of “My Fair Lady” Monday and Tuesday, April 13-14, at Lake Region High School.Auditions will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m., with call-backs on April 16. Auditioners should come with a prepared vocal piece and sheet music to provide the accompanist, and be […]

AUBURN – On Sunday, April 19, Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, a Montana folk singer and backcountry traveler, will bring his multimedia show, “Forever Wild,” to the First Universalist Church of Auburn. Stoltz will take his audience on a journey into our nation’s last wilderness areas, presenting a mix of stunning photography, stories and music. Named for […]

NEW YORK (AP) – NBC Universal says it saved $2 million last year by going green. The media giant has been promoting environmentally friendly efforts on its TV shows and in practice, looking for reduced power costs and telling its executives to lay off the bottled water. The company says its polls show NBC’s image […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Ricky Gervais is more than an award-winning comedy superstar. With the academic approach he takes to his trade, Gervais is more like an emeritus professor at the University of Funny. In advance of Tuesday’s DVD release of his HBO stand-up special – “Ricky Gervais: Out of England” – Gervais visited The […]

LEWISTON – Bates College students taking a hands-on course in music-making with computers will perform their compositions Tuesday, April 7, in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. Topics range from digital synthesis to MIDI communications to the aesthetics of art produced with computers. Designed for arts students who want to learn about new technological tools, the […]

LEWISTON – Weaver Barbara Burns, whose work is driven by her fascination with the human face and form, will be the featured guest speaker at the next installment of Museum L-A’s “Voices” lecture series.Burns has over the last five years exhibited her work extensively in the United States as well as in England and Australia.On […]

PARIS – Three comedians will take the stage when the Oxford Fire Relief Organization presents The Cavalcade of Comedy Show Thursday, April 9. The fundraiser offering adult, PG-13 rated comedy, will begin at 7 p.m. at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Auditorium.Doors will open at 6 p.m. For more information, call 577-2618.

A dozen portraits in Robert Shetterly’s “Americans Who Tell the Truth” series are on display at the Norway Memorial Library. Three are shown, above, with Beth Kane, who organized the exhibit at the library. Shetterly’s portraits are of Jim Hightower, a populist author and speaker, bottom left; Camilo Mejia, an ex-soldier in Iraq and now […]

Seven young men acting for the Lewiston School Board under a law requiring a census of the children of the city between the ages of 5 and 21 years to be taken each year, have been appointed and will commence work this week.The following questions will be asked at each house: The parents’ names; the […]