AUGUSTA – The Northeast Horsemen’s Conference and Trade Show, featuring 25-plus nationally and regionally recognized experts talking horses, will celebrate its 15th year at the Augusta Civic Center Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 17-18.The conference and trade show will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Featured […]

NEW YORK – When “Rent” debuted on Broadway in 1996, Gwen Stewart was there. When the curtain came down on its final performance last year, she came back to be there, too.So when producers decided to launch a national tour studded with original veterans, it made sense for Stewart to pack her bags and be […]

Shooter’s, Lewiston’s newest dance club, will feature The Distributors Friday, Jan 9. Located at 347 Lisbon St., the newly remodeled club draws solo and duo performers as well as regional bands every Friday and Saturday night. Performing classic rock, blues and funk, The Distributors features musicians who are no strangers to the local music scene: […]

Family skating will be offered from1 to 2:45 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, 18 and 25, at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, 190 Birch St., Lewiston. Admission is $5/$3. For more information, call 783-2009.

Dr. Jason Posner, played by Vincent Ratsavong, examines Vivian Bearing, Ph.D, played by Colleen Mahan, in the Monmouth Community Players’ production of “Wit.” The moving Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures life as seen through the eyes of a woman staring her mortality in the face. Shows are at 8 p.m. Jan. 16, 17, 23 and 24; […]

The art and literature club met Monday afternoon with Mrs. A.D. Mower, Auburn. Mrs. R. B. Hayes, the leader, spoke on the decay of the Russian nobility and Mrs. Allen Winslow followed with a short talk on the emancipation of the Serfs. Mrs. S.R.B. Pingree spoke on peasant life in Russia and Mrs. F.O. Watson […]

The Musquash Club of Auburn and Lewiston will go to Augusta Tuesday to attend a hearing before the fish and game commissioners. The club has petitioned for a fishway on the Musquash stream to preserve the salmon in Musquash Lake where their sporting camp is located. The petition is opposed by the Eaton heirs who […]

LEWISTON – The classic rock ‘n’ roll and blues sounds of RAM will fill the Elks Lodge from 8 p.m. until midnight Saturday, Jan. 10. There will be a cash bar, a 50/50 drawing and a raffle. Admission is $5 per person, with proceeds benefiting Elks charities.Making up RAM are Steve Pelletier, Dan Lacasse, Paul […]

LISBON – St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church will offer a free vintage country western and praise music concert featuring Sequel at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17.Sequel is made up of Allan and Leeanne Hewey, former firefighter EMT and paramedics who met in the back of an ambulance during an emergency call. Today, they perform and compose […]

FARMINGTON – In the midst of winter, Sandy River Players are offering a little bit of summer. From Jan. 15 through Jan. 25, the community theater will present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” directed by Jayne Decker and featuring original music by Philip Carlsen.One of Shakespeare’s most popular works, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a tale […]