BATH — A Motown Christmas will fill the Chocolate Church Arts Center with the sounds of Christmas music, rhythm and blues style, Saturday, Nov. 24, at 7:30 p.m. Pat Colwell and the Soul Sensations will present an old-school Christmas Motown R&B revue, complete with female backup singers and a full horn section. The repertoire includes Motown […]
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Mahoosuc Community Band to present Christmas concert
BETHEL — The Mahoosuc Community Band will present a Christmas concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at the West Parish Congregational Church. The band will play “Echoes From the Battlefield” arranged by Darren Jenkins to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. The arrangement features familiar songs from that era. […]
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Breau staging fifth benefit for Pettingill School Park
LEWISTON — Six popular duets from Maine will perform at Denny Breau’s Happy Together concert to support improvements at Lewiston’s Pettingill School Park. The Nov. 25 show will be his fifth to benefit the park project spearheaded by Friends of Pettingill. It will run from 1 to 4 p.m. at The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron […]
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America's wealth floods into already wealthy cities
When Amazon chose a Queens neighborhood across from Manhattan for one of its new headquarters, James Corden remarked on “The Late Late Show,” “I gotta say, I really think this could be the thing that finally puts New York on the map.” That was a joke. New York is already the capital of finance, media, […]
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Georgia's governor-elect won fair and square
In the overtime of the 2018 elections, the left can’t decide whether it opposes casting doubt on election results or insists on it. In the case of the Georgia gubernatorial election, narrowly lost by African-American activist Stacey Abrams, it’s unquestionably the latter. A cottage industry has grown up around declaring the outcome a stain on […]
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Donations sought to fill stockings AUBURN —Bolster Heights Residential Care Facility is in need of donations to fill Christmas stockings for 84 residents. Examples of donations would be unopened and unexpired snack items, cans or bottles of soda, soft candies, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, lotions, bars of soap, individual manicure kits, large-print word search or […]
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Chester Greenwood Day to include gingerbread contest, horse-drawn rides
FARMINGTON — The 42nd celebration of Chester Greenwood Day will be Saturday, Dec. 1, in downtown Farmington. The Franklin County Chamber of Commerce will present the annual celebration of Chester Greenwood, Farmington native and earmuff inventor. The theme this year is “Sights and Sounds of the Season.” Returning this year is the “Taste of Farmington” […]
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Virgo: You will receive valuable advice
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Rachel McAdams, 40; Dylan Walsh, 55; Danny DeVito, 74; Martin Scorsese, 76. Happy Birthday: Make plans that are within reason. Emotional matters will surface if you aren’t up-front about the way you feel or what you expect. Transparency will be in your best interest, and asking direct questions when in […]
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Daughter is last to learn of new love in dad's life
DEAR ABBY: My father began dating four years after my mother passed away from a terrible bout with cancer. He and I have always been close; in fact, I have always considered him to be one of my best friends. But since he started dating he has changed. I just traveled across the country for […]
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Red Claws bounce back to beat Mad Ants
Red Claws’ Walt Lemon maneuvers around Ft. Wayne’s Ike Angibogu for a layup Friday at the Portland Expo. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald) PORTLAND — From across a crowded room, their eyes met. OK, so it was the Portland Expo and they were playing a G League basketball game, but the chemistry between Walt Lemon Jr. […]