FARMINGTON – Saturday, March 21, the Mt. Blue Middle School Dinner Theater will present its original comedy, “Three-and-a-Half Writers.” Featured will be performances by the MBMS Show Choir and the MBMS One-Act Play for an evening of dining and entertainment beginning at 6 p.m. Written and performed by the cast and crew, with direction from […]

Eugene Connors, familiarly known as “The Mayor of Greene,” was arrested last evening near Sabattus and College streets and taken to the police station from which place he had departed but a few hours since. He was before court Monday morning and paid the fine imposed for intoxication. This will make it the second offense […]

BETHEL – The Bethel Performing Arts Project will hold its first organizational community meeting from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at the Funky Red Barn on Summer Street.Any interested performer, businessperson, patron, volunteer or representative of an organization is urged to attend.For more information, businesspeople may call Ross Timberlake at 824-6545; performers may […]

LEWISTON – The celebrated Egyptian film “The Yacoubian Building” will be shown from 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. The film, presented by the school’s International Students Organization, will be followed by a discussion with USM President and Egypt scholar Selma Botman. “The Yacoubian Building” […]

LEWISTON – On Friday, March 13, the Saint Cecilia Schola Cantorum will present a program of contemplative Lenten music at 7 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Chapel. The program will include Gregorian chant as well as sacred polyphony by Palestrina, Byrd, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Eliasson, Lourento and Stainer.The Saint Ceclia Schola Cantorum is a small a cappella choir […]

Young women desiring to enter Bates College in September next must have their applications in the hands of the registrar on or before March 15. Certificates of character from their pastors and of health from their physicians, together with a statement of character and scholarship from their principals, must accompany the application. 50 years ago, […]

PORTLAND – Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones, who’s ranked No. 30 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock ‘N’ Roll, will perform April 13 at Port City Music Hall.Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Friday, March 13, and are available at all Bull Moose music stores and online at www.portcitymusichall.com. General admission tickets are […]

New England Celtic Arts will host Annalivia, one of the latest hip young alt-traditional bands to emerge from the Boston fiddle music scene, Wednesday, March, 25, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in South Carthage; and Thursday, March 26, at the Lakeside Theater in Rangeley. Both concerts begin at 7 p.m., with a 6:15 prejam […]

AUGUSTA – The Maine Academy of Country Music will put on a benefit concert from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at American Legion Post 205 on Route 17.It is a benefit for longtime country music entertainer Bob LaChance, who is suffering from a serious illness and has incurred expenses not covered by insurances.Admission […]

PORTLAND – Though he has never competed in a Reindeer Records Rock-Off, 17-year-old Ryan Woodbury of Gray is a local singer/songwriter with a bright future as a performing artist. Later this month, he will host Reindeer Records’ 25th Annual Rock-Off at McAuley Performing Arts Center, where 19 high-school rock bands will compete for the title […]