FARMINGTON — Maine Audubon wildlife ecologist Sally Stockwell will give a one-hour presentation, “What’s Happening to Our Birds?,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9. The talk — originally scheduled as an in-person event at UMF — will be broadcast instead as a live webinar due to COVID-19 restrictions. Check the website, www.western.maineaudubon.org/events/, prior to the […]
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The Oshima Brothers kick-off live music series ‘DAC at the Drive-In’
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Brooksville Library offers online poetry workshops
BROOKSVILLE — The Brooksville Free Public Library is offering two poetry workshops with Bea Gates to take place over Zoom free. Space is limited. From 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays, Sept. 3 and 10, a workshop will celebrate the work of Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States who writes incantations that […]
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‘Staycation’ travel series continues with Lewiston Auburn area presentation
CAMDEN — Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Shanna Cox will deliver an online presentation on the Lewiston Auburn Community at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, through the Camden Public Library. The program is part of the library’s Maine “Staycation” travel series. The program will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Email […]
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Auburn embraces public art projects
AUBURN – The City of Auburn is embracing public art in a big way. City leadership has recently approved two public art projects slated for unveiling in 2021. The first project is the finalist from the Maine Arts Commission grant awarded to LA Metro Chamber of Commerce and L/A Arts. Maine sculptor Hugh Lassen’s work, […]
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Maine author wins 2020 International Book Award for children’s fiction
LOVELL — Lovell author Elizabeth Atkinson’s book, “Fly Back, Agnes,” has won the 2020 International Book Award for Children’s Fiction at the American Book Fest. Jeffrey Keen, president and CEO of American Book Fest, said this year’s contest yielded over 2,000 entries from authors and publishers around the world, which were then narrowed down to […]
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Winners announced for this year’s Nordica Scholarship
FARMINGTON — The Nordica Memorial Association has announced the winners of this year’s Nordica scholarship. It is awarded to a student of singing in Maine who aspires to a career in singing. This year’s contest resulted in a tie, with Kaleigh Hunter of Saco and Emma Jones of South Portland as winners. In “normal times” […]
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Documentary to help raise funds for Vienna Union Hall
VIENNA — There are 17 towns in the USA called Vienna. Jasmin Al-Kattib and Richard Kromp of Vienna, Austria, decided to travel to the USA and visit some of those Viennas. In the summer of 2017, they started their journey in Vienna, Maine. They met with the Vienna Historical Society for lunch, they were guided […]
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Looking Back on Aug. 18
100 Years Ago: 1920 At a committee meeting held recently at Stevens Mills Grange Hall it was decided to hold the annual Grange field day at Macomber’s Beach on Taylor Pond, on Saturday. Members are requested to bring a basket lunch, and ice cream will be on sale. A general good day is being planned […]
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Gallery 302 welcomes new exhibiting artist
BRIDGTON — Sandra Lee Kimball is a new exhibiting artist at Gallery 302. Kimball has been a creator and artist as far back as she can remember. When she was 5, her dad gave her a jack knife of her own after she kept asking to use his to carve wood and plaster of Paris. […]