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Telstar students find focus during Career Week

BETHEL — Last year’s stints with a local veterinarian and an ambulance service affirmed senior Ashley Conkright’s career goal of working with animals. During Telstar High School’s 29th annual Career Week many of the 65 juniors who are taking their turn in the program will also decide whether they want to pursue their current career […]

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Best-selling author will speak at Bates College

LEWISTON — Lisa Genova, best-selling author of novels “Still Alice” and “Left Neglected,” will speak at Bates College, her alma mater, on Wednesday, Feb. 1. The free talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Olin Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. A 1992 Bates graduate with a doctorate in neuroscience from Harvard, Genova is recognized […]

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Celebrated pianists in classical, jazz coming to Bates

LEWISTON — At a couple of February concerts, two young but accomplished pianists, one playing classical and the other jazz, will perform at Bates College. Described as “eminently musical” by The New York Times, French classical pianist Lise de la Salle will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2. Tickets, $10, may be purchased in […]

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Acclaimed novelist, cultural critic will offer insights on racial identity

LEWISTON — In January and February, Bates College will present talks on race, identity and 21st-century America by best-selling novelist Danzy Senna and author-cultural critic Toure. Senna’s novel “Caucasia” (Riverhead Trade, 1999) won the Book of the Month Award for First Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award. It was named a Los Angeles […]

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King would find inequality in the environment

LEWISTON — If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he might preach sermons about giving people equal rights to clean air and water. It’s the “unfinished business” that Julian Agyeman believes King alluded to in speeches but never spoke about explicitly before his assassination, the author and teacher told a Bates College crowd […]