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'Noises Off' auditions at Gaslight Theater

HALLOWELL — The Gaslight Theater announces auditions for “Noises Off” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 19, and Monday, March 20, in the Hallowell City Hall Auditorium, 1 Winthrop St.  The play by Michael Frayn will be directed by Linda Duarte.  Auditions will involve cold readings from the script  “Noises Off,”  is a 1982 play by the English playwright Michael […]

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What's wrong with this picture?

If you were president of the United States, would you: Skip intelligence briefings, but go ahead and approve a raid on Yemen? Absent yourself from the situation room while that raid was ongoing? Settle a lawsuit for $25 million and consider yourself innocent? Deny major news networks access to your press conferences? Turn your back […]

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Vicki A. Ross

LEWISTON — Vicki Ann Bernier Ross left us unexpectedly Friday, March 10. She passed away peacefully in her Lewiston home with her husband, Jeff Ross, by her side. Vicki will be missed by many: her husband, Jeffrey Mark Ross of Lewiston; one brother, Victor (Buster) Bernier Jr. of Lisbon; one son, Joseph Michael Ambrose and […]

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Myrna Day Henry

TULSA, Okla. — Myrna Day Henry, 76, of Broken Arrow, Okla., passed away Wednesday, March 8, at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., after a battle with cancer. She was born Dec. 22, 1940, in Toledo, Ohio, to Earl Hammond and Mary Elizabeth (Rang) Day and graduated from Montpelier High School in 1958. She graduated […]

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Cuomo's plan won't end poverty in Brooklyn

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to spend $1.4 billion of New York’s resources to solve the persistent problem of poverty in central Brooklyn. If he wins legislative approval, Cuomo, a Democrat, intends to spend the money on affordable housing, job training, anti-violence programs, recreational space, even obesity. Some cynics suggest the proposal is targeted at boosting […]