ROCKLAND – The strong polo team from Lewiston was defeated this evening by the Rockland team in the fastest game ever witnessed here. At the beginning of the third period the score was tied and after playing 14 minutes and 15 seconds of the third period, O’Brien of Lewiston drove the ball into his own […]

AUBURN-LEWISTON – The Pineland Fiddlers youth folk orchestra will visit the Twin Cities Saturday, Feb. 28, to perform at two free concerts. Their first appearance will be at 10:30 a.m. at Schooner Estates Retirement Community in Auburn, where they will perform a lively mix of French-Canadian and Celtic dance tunes, with young local folk dancers […]

SEBAGO – The Schoolhouse Arts Center will present “Trying,” by Joanna McClelland Glass March 13-15 in the new Black Box Theater. “Trying” is a two-character play based on the author’s experience during 1967-1968, when she worked for Francis Biddle at his home in Washington, D.C. Judge Biddle served as U.S. attorney general under Franklin Roosevelt.After […]

A brief session of both branches of the Lewiston city government was held last evening. The only business transacted was the passage of the order authorizing the fire commission to purchase a ten circuit repeater system for the two cities. The order passed reads as follows:Ordered, the Common Council concurring, that the Board of Fire […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Slumdog Millionaire” took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film’s unlikely rise to Hollywood’s summit.The other top winners: Kate Winslet, best actress for the Holocaust-themed drama “The Reader”; Sean Penn, best actor for the title role of […]

Complete list of winners at the 81st annual Academy Awards, presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:– Motion Picture: “Slumdog Millionaire.”– Actor: Sean Penn, “Milk.”– Actress: Kate Winslet, “The Reader.”– Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight.”– Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”– Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire.”– Foreign Film: “Departures,” […]

“The Renegades,” by T. Jefferson Parker, Dutton, 338 pages, $26.95The Antelope Valley is a vast stretch of high desert north of Los Angeles, where thousands of affordable homes have been thrown up and where urban gangs are already starting to move in. The sheriff’s department considers it Siberia, but Charlie Hood has asked to be […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Conan O’Brien said goodbye to New York and NBC’s “Late Night” by passing out shards of his stage, enjoying one last rub from Will Ferrell and promising fans he wouldn’t grow up.O’Brien is heading to Los Angeles, where NBC will fulfill a promise it made five years ago to make him […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Academy Awards organizers are going all out to inject more suspense into Hollywood’s biggest party Sunday.If only the competition itself would cooperate.While there are close races in key categories, this year’s show again suffers from a predictability factor for the top prize. Best picture is expected to go to “Slumdog Millionaire,” […]

It would be news if “Fired Up!” weren’t moronic and adolescent.A comedy about two horny high-school football players who infiltrate cheerleading camp to score women couldn’t possibly be anything else. It’s also, as you would imagine, rude and crude, until it reaches its predictable and disingenuously sweet conclusion.What’s surprising, though, is that within this premise […]