Arrests Androscoggin County Casey Senn, 33, of 3 Cherry St., Mexico, warrant charging failure to pay fine, 12:20 p.m. Monday on Route 4 by Maine State Police. Eric Greenwood, 37, of 1213 Lisbon St., Lewiston, probation hold, 1:17 p.m. Monday at 140 Canal St., Lewiston by Probation and Parole Office. Lewiston Bret Martel, 37, of […]
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Sketchy Friends artists’ group gathers monthly at Kimball Street Studios in Lewiston.
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Maine Jewish Film Festival to present free family film program at The Public Theater
LEWISTON — The Maine Jewish Film Festival will present a special free family film program at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at The Public Theatre. Featuring the animated musical drama, “The Prince of Egypt,” the program is designed for families with children (the film is rated PG). An engaging retelling of the Passover story, “The […]
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Nel and Mike will perform at La Rencontre
LEWISTON — Local favorites, Nel and Mike, will provide the entertainment at the Gendron Franco Center’s monthly luncheon, La Rencontre, on Thursday, Feb. 13. The doors and bar will open at 10 a.m. and the meal will be served at 11:30 a.m. The meal will include baked manicotti, garden salad, dinner rolls and chef’s-choice dessert. […]
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CMMC gallery features works by Jennifer Gammon, Nancy Clark
LEWISTON — The Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery at Central Maine Medical Center is displaying the naturalist watercolor series of Jennifer Gammon and the acrylic landscape paintings of Nancy Clark. Working in many mediums, including oil, acrylic, conte and watercolor, Gammon received her BFA in studio art at USM. In this series of watercolors, […]
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Poet Steven Riel appear as part of LAC’s Franco-American Collection reading series
LEWISTON — Lewiston’s Franco-American Collection is hosting poet Steven Riel on Monday, Feb. 24. Riel is the third featured writer of the FAC’s five Meet-A-Franco-Author programs being offered free to the area’s Francophiles and lovers of fine writing in 2019-2020. Writers in the program series, Franco-America at the Interstice of Identities, explore the conjunction of […]
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Lewiston takes on poverty
Educators and community leaders travel to Harlem to find ideas to help combat poverty in Lewiston’s troubled neighborhoods.
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Volunteers build energy-efficient windows for families in Lewiston-Auburn
Several volunteers met Saturday and Sunday at St. Mary’s Nutrition Center on Bates Street to help assemble window insulating inserts for low-income families in the Lewiston-Auburn area.
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Harlem’s Baby College starts young
Latasha Morgan, director of the Baby College at the Harlem Children’s Zone, makes the Energizer Bunny look like a slacker. Morgan, who has worked for the New York nonprofit for 18 years, said its Baby College is a pretty simple concept: It takes about 75 parents of newborns and has them attend nine consecutive Saturday […]
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Healthy Harlem targets obesity
Since 1980, the rate of childhood obesity in Harlem has quadrupled. While this is part of a national trend, Nadirah Chestnut, director of the Healthy Harlem program run by the Harlem Children’s Zone, the growing waistlines of Harlem’s youngsters are a cause for concern. “Over the long term, it is something that could undermine our […]