FRYEBURG — Fryeburg Academy has announced the official groundbreaking for their new dining hall and student union at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, behind the LaCasce Building. The ceremony is open to the public. A private donor reception will follow from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Green House, 686 Main St. The new construction is […]
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'Samson et Dalila' to be shown as part of Met Opera Live in HD series
FRYEBURG — The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Met Opera “Live in HD” series presents Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila” at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20. When mezzo-soprano El?na Garan?a and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of “Carmen” at the Met, the results were electrifying. […]
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Man kicked by horse at Fryeburg Fair
FRYEBURG — A farmer was injured Friday night when he was kicked by his horse during a pulling event at the Fryeburg Fair, a fair spokesman said. The 59-year-old farmer was conscious when medical crews arrived, the spokesman said, but because it was a head injury, he was flown to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston […]
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Met Opera presents ‘Aida’ at LHE/PAC
FRYEBURG — The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “Met Opera: Live in HD” series presents Verdi’s “Aida” at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6. In what should be a highlight of the new season, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met “Aida,” going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as […]
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'The Met: Live in HD' returns to Fryeburg Academy theater
FRYEBURG — The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “Met Opera: Live in HD” series is returning to the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center for the 2018-19 season, starting Saturday, Oct. 6. Viewers can experience the Met’s world-renowned performances on the big screen with surround sound in the state-of-the-art theater. The season opens with Verdi’s “Aida” at […]
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Fryeburg Academy gallery features art exhibit from local artist
FRYEBURG — During September and October the Goldberg Gallery at Fryeburg Academy will host a collection of oil paintings, featuring the work of artist Sandra J. Bell. Bell, a paint en plein air and representational oil painter, was raised in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and was exposed to the arts at an early age. She […]
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Pregnant woman and her 8-year-old son improving in hospital after Fryeburg crash
FRYEBURG (WGME) — A pregnant woman and child have improved to stable condition, after a two-car crash in Fryeburg over the weekend. It happened Saturday morning on Route 302. Police say Bridgett McAvoy, a 29-year-old pregnant woman from Denmark, was driving with three children, when she collided with an oncoming vehicle that crossed the center […]
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Denmark woman in critical condition after Fryeburg crash
FRYEBURG — A pregnant woman from Denmark is in critical condition after the vehicle she was driving collided with another car on Bridgton Road on Saturday, according to Fryeburg police. The 29-year-old driver, whose name was not released, was driving her 2005 Subaru Outback westbound with her three children, ages 3, 5 and 8, police […]
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Body found on Saco River beach
FRYEBURG — Police are investigating a body found Sunday morning along the Saco River. Police said they discovered the body as they were responding to a 911 call involving a canoer. Fryeburg police said a 28-year-old man from Nashua, New Hampshire, was found near mile 14 of the river at 7:45 a.m. Sunday. Officers had […]
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Hazel G. Holden
BRIDGTON — Hazel G. Holden, 94, of Fryeburg passed from this life Friday, July 13, at Bridgton Health Care Center. She was the youngest of seven children of Ernest and Alma Gurney, born in 1923 in Hebron, where she spent her early years until the family moved to Norway in 1936, after the untimely death of […]