The cast of “Much Ado About Nothing” performs Thursday evening at the top of Dufresne Plaza in downtown Lewiston. The GypsyLew Theater Company’s production of the Shakespeare comedy is part of the Lewiston Public Library’s “Ye Olde Shakespeare Week.” The free, 80-minute production will also be performed at 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. From left: Mary Randall as Beatrice, Christine Doucette as […]
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Lewiston library to screen 'Making Mill Town'
The Bates Dance Festival and the Lewiston Public Library will hold a screening of the documentary film “Making Mill Town” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 17. The program is free, open to the public and will be held in the library’s Callahan Hall. “Making Mill Town” delves into the four-year process of making the immersive dance […]
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Learning about lobster in Lewiston
Judah Paris, 8, of Lewiston picks up a baby lobster Wednesday afternoon at the Lewiston Public Library, during an LPL Kids presentation of Ocean Touch Tank. Children got to handle ocean creatures and learn about them. Patiently waiting for his turn to hold it is Cole Dobbie, 11, of Lewiston. For more information on upcoming […]
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Kids make 'mermaid poop' at Lewiston Public Library
Samari Medrano, 6, of Lewiston, checks out the consistency of the “mermaid poop” she and her mother were making at the Lewiston Public Library on Wednesday afternoon with about a dozen others taking part in the free children’s program. For more information on upcoming events, visit the library’s website at lplonline.org. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)
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Juvenile Justice Panel: Music, dance and crime stats
LEWISTON — The way Rilwan Osman sees it, the more entrenched the immigrant population becomes in Lewiston, the greater their responsibility to make it a better place. “Lewiston is our home,” said Osman, executive director of Maine Immigration and Refugee Services. “We’re not going anywhere, so let’s make our city and state a better place […]
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Marsden Hartley notecards on sale at LPL
LEWISTON — The Friends of the Lewiston Public Library are selling notecards at the library featuring the Marsden Hartley painting, “Shady Brook.” Hartley, a Lewiston-born artist, presented the library with this Maine landscape in 1907 and for most of the past 109 years, the oil painting has been on display at the library. The painting […]
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Library debuting book discussion series on 14th Amendment
LEWISTON — The Lewiston Public Library will host a reading and discussion series this fall titled “Violence and Belonging: The 14th Amendment and American Literature.” The series will meet at 6 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month through January, beginning Sept. 6. “Violence and Belonging” is the newest of several book discussion programs […]