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Frantasia Festival breaks musical ground

JAY — If you were to walk into Jay’s Otis Mill in August 1913, your ears would have been greeted by the sounds of the country’s third-largest paper mill, busy with work. One hundred years later, the 10th annual Frantasia Festival of Out Music and Arts filled the mill with sounds of a different variety […]

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Rumford Heritage Festival to kick off Thursday, continue on Saturday

RUMFORD — Residents will have the opportunity to celebrate their heritage after the Rumford Heritage Festival 2013 kicks off Thursday, Sept. 12, and continues at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, in conjunction with the Crossroads International Celtic Festival. According to Envision Rumford member Tammi Lyons, the group is working on “putting the finishing touches on the […]

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Facetime: The divine voice of Nicole LePera

Nicole LePera has a heavenly voice. It’s kind of ironic because for the past year or so, I’ve been walking by her newsroom desk every day while singing my fool head off. What she must think of me. It turns out Nicole is one of those natural-born musicians, a fact I discovered when I stumbled […]