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Folk musicians will team up for Lovell concert

LOVELL — Folk musicians and composers Heather Pierson and Davy Sturtevant will perform solo and together on Thursday, Aug. 4, at the Brick Church for the Performing Arts. They will sing a varied repertoire of original songs and well-known music that touches the heart. Pierson was born on the edge of the American West and […]

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‘Funny Thing’ showcases young talent

LOVELL — “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Circus”  will be presented by the Picket Fence theater camp troupers at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at the Brick Church Performing Arts Center. This little folks’ circus is so poor, it has been reduced to performing in one-half a ring. A culmination of […]

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Word is out, Lovell will hold its first poetry slam

LOVELL — Poetry slams have been called “the democratization of verse.” Also, “no place for wimps.” On Thursday, July 14, the Brick Church for the Performing Arts will present the town’s first poetry slam, courtesy of poet Krista Mosca and the team that will accompany her to Boston next month to compete in the National […]

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Moore will ‘surprise the listener’ at Brick Church

LOVELL — Keyboardist Dan Moore, who has played at the Mount Washington Hotel since 1999, will give a solo concert at the Brick Church for the Performing Arts on Thursday, July 7. Moore will move from harpsichord to piano as he weaves a musical story from the early years of keyboard composition to modern, and […]

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Listeners can share in the storytelling

LOVELL — Do you like to make up tall tales? Guess who’s telling the truth? Relax and laugh at human foibles? The Brick Church for the Performing Arts will open its 2011 season on Friday, June 17, with a new kind of storytelling festival — one in which audience members can join in the storytelling. […]

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Brick Church’s season will offer poetry, steel drums and more

LOVELL — The Brick Church for the Performing Arts’ sixth season will offer several firsts — a  poetry slam, children’s theater camp, steel drum band and musical birthday party. The season will open on June 17 with a variation on BCPA’s traditional storytelling festival: an evening of moving, hilarious and mostly true stories by community […]

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Lovell author writes second children’s book

NORWAY — Tom Merriams of Lovell will be at Books N Things on Saturday, Dec. 18, to sign copies of his second children’s book, “Barnstorming,” as well as his first, “Yak Attack.” “Barnstorming” is a colorfully illustrated story about a biplane that flies over, around and upside down. The signing will be from 11 a.m. […]

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Lovell woman charged with drug trafficking

BRIDGTON — A 46-year-old Lovell woman was arrested Thursday on charges that she illegally sold prescription drugs near an elementary school earlier this year. Connie M. Scott of Christian Hill Road was charged with one count of aggravated trafficking in Oxycodone and one count of trafficking in Oxycodone. Both charges stem from the same alleged […]

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Keyboard virtuoso to perform at Brick Church

LOVELL — Dan Moore, who has played piano several nights a week at the Mt. Washington Hotel over the past 10 years, will perform Saturday, Aug. 7, at the Brick Church for the Performing Arts. Moore has been playing professionally since junior high school. He attended Montclair State College and received his bachelor of fine […]

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Military note – Adia Comeau

Army Pvt. Adia J. Comeau has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, Comeau studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle […]