The public is invited to kick off summer with an evening of big band jazz from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, June 21. Local favorite Mondaynite Jazz Orchestra (MoJO) returns for a free community concert in the Camden Amphitheatre. Bring a chair or blanket, a picnic supper, and your dancing (or tapping) feet. If one […]
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Looking Back on June 17
100 Years Ago: 1921 “Well, the bridge is saved,” laughed the Lewiston police officer. “This is the first fire I’ve had this week, but last week I had four.” The fire he referred to was a smouldering blaze in the hard-wood planking of the southerly footwalk of the North Bridge, which he had just extinguished […]
Full-scale Wiscasset Art Walk to return June 24
Wiscasset Art Walk — a summertime celebration of art, music, performance and community, entering its ninth year — returns this month in full force with the participation of village galleries, shops, and restaurants. The village becomes a festival with sidewalk activities, community art projects, and special features. Art Walks are held from 5 to 8 […]
Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival slated for this weekend
LITCHFIELD — Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival is celebrating its 54th festival at the Litchfield Fairgrounds, 30 Plains Road. After taking 2020 off due to the pandemic organizers are excited to welcome everyone back to the festival to bring the rich bluegrass music back to the Kennebec Valley. “The festival location has that ‘Welcome Home’ country […]
Looking Back on June 16
100 Years Ago: 1921 The alumni of Jordan high School will tender a reception to the graduating class of 1921 In Lewiston City Hall on the evening of Friday, June 17. Following the program of music and speaking, the evening will be spent in dancing, music being furnished by Chandler’s twelve piece orchestra. The Hon. […]
‘Four Old Broads’ to be staged
“Four Old Broads” will be staged for the next two weeks at Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road in Madison. Performances are set for 8 p.m. June 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26; 4 p.m. June 20; 2 and 7 p.m. June 23. Retired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton desperately needs a vacation — and NOT […]
Looking Back on June 15
100 Years Ago: 1921 The parade of hurrying boys with paper suit boxes under their arms and girls with small packages in their hands reminds us that another group of high school graduates will receive their diplomas in the next few weeks. 50 Years Ago: 1971 A large truck almost plunged 200 feet down a […]
Royal Family Productions presents one-woman shows of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Parts I & 2
Community Little Theatre