NORWAY — The Norway Memorial Library announces that an Oxford Hills choral group, Vocal Solution, will perform at the library from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23. Vocal Solution was founded and is based in South Paris. Members are Kristen Searles, soprano I; Pam Merz, soprano II; Karen Chapman, alto I; Jane Morse, alto […]
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Sean Mencher live at Celebration Barn Theater
SOUTH PARIS — Celebration Barn Theater presents Sean Mencher in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25. From Japan to Russia and Carnegie Hall to Conan O’Brien, this American-rockabilly thumb-picking guitar man has played it all. Describing his ’50s honky-tonk and rockabilly sensibility, AllMusic says, “Mencher’s combination of fiddle, guitar, and slap-back echo is infectious, […]
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Edna J. Twitchell
SOUTH PARIS — Edna J. Twitchell, wife, mother and grandmother, passed away at Market Square Nursing Home on Tuesday, Aug. 14. Edna was born to Benjamin F. Philbrick and Elizabeth Alice (Harding) Philbrick on Jan. 4, 1929, in Frye, the youngest of 11 children. During the first year of her life, her mother and sisters moved […]
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Chris Cousins, veteran Maine political reporter, dies at 42
Chris Cousins, a well-respected and veteran political reporter for the Bangor Daily News, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 42. A Maine native, Cousins was a major presence at multiple news organizations in the state during his two decades in journalism. He started out at the weekly Advertiser Democrat in Norway before […]
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Meet and greet, book signing with Claire Starnes
SOUTH PARIS — The VFW Post 9787, 58 East Main St., is hosting a meet-and-greet and book signing with author and Vietnam veteran Claire Starnes from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20, at the Post. This event is open to the public. Starnes’ book “Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories” was published in September […]
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Flora (McKeen) Komulainen
SOUTH PARIS — Flora (McKeen) Komulainen, 91, of South Paris went to be with her Lord and Savior on Aug. 11. She is predeceased by her husband, Gunnar Komulainen, and daughter, Susan (Komulainen) McElravy. She is survived by her sister, Evelyn Campbell; daughter, Pamela Woodworth; sons Danny and Wesley Komulainen; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and four […]
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Pinot & Augustine perform at Celebration Barn Theater
SOUTH PARIS — Celebration Barn Theater presents Happenstance Theater’s Pinot & Augustine at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18. A 45-minute crowd-pleaser, Pinot & Augustine is a classic, family-friendly clown duo inspired by the golden age of circus. Pinot is the authoritarian clown in fancy clothes and white cone hat. Augustine is the appealing red-nosed bumbler […]
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Patricia Ann Bean
SOUTH PARIS — Patricia A. Bean, 82, passed from this life after fighting a courageous battle with cancer. She died Thursday, Aug. 2, at her home in South Paris, with family by her side. She was the daughter of Arthur and Gertrude Coffin, born in Bryant Pond and graduated from Woodstock High School in 1954. She […]
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Howie Day to kick off Paris Hill Music Festival
SOUTH PARIS — The 2018 Paris Hill Music Festival kicks off Thursday, Aug. 9, with Maine native Howie Day. A native of Bangor, Day began playing piano at age 5 and guitar at age 12. By 15, he was writing his own songs and performing across New England. Shortly after graduating high school, Day became […]
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Steven Ragatz at Celebration Barn Theater
SOUTH PARIS — Celebration Barn Theater, 190 Stock Farm Road, presents Steven Ragatz’s “Under the Umbrella, Life is a Circus,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11. Steven Ragatz has been entertaining audiences with his juggling, physical comedy, circus arts and general antics for the past three decades. As a 10-year veteran of the French Canadian […]