GARDINER — Jonathan Edwards will perform at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center on Water Street. Four decades into a stellar career of uncompromising musical integrity, Edwards delivers songs of passion, songs of insight, songs of humor — all rendered in a pure and powerful tenor. These days, Edwards is […]
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Lisbon Street will SPARKLE Sunday with artists, artisans
Event reminiscent of hustle-bustleof the Lisbon Street of yesteryear LEWISTON — Downtown Lisbon Street will be alive with holiday activity for last minute shoppers at the 3rd Annual Sparkle Sunday, Dec. 17. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. between Poise Yoga Studio and J. Dostie Jewelry, 20 venues will be open featuring artisan gifts, face […]
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Looking Back on December 13
100 years ago, 1917The attendance at the Lewiston Daily Sun’s wartime Cooking School which opened yesterday afternoon in New Odd Fellows Hall, Auburn, was very gratifying. It was a gathering of housewives eager to learn all they could along the line of food conservation, and from the enthusiastic comments heard on every side, they all […]
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Carol Bailey String Band to give free Christmas concert
Carol Bailey String Band, directed by Pat and Jon Bailey of Litchfield, will perform a free Christmas concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Hope Baptist Church, 726 Western Ave., Manchester. The Heritage music in the program is from around the world. The band is a group of fun-loving folks age 65 and up […]
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Chocolate Church to present 'Scrooge! The Musical'
BATH — The Chocolate Church Arts Center announces their 2017 holiday production as “Scrooge! The Musical.” Based on the 1843 novella Charles Dickens, this is the timeless story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy miser who hates Christmas, but who is transformed into a caring, kindly person through the visitations of four ghosts. This production featuring […]
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Museum L-A launches online store
Items are printed with patterns of unique Bates Mill designs LEWISTON — Museum L-A is pleased to announce the launch of its new online store featuring home and personal decor that is printed with historical artwork designed by the mill workers from Bates Mill. The unique patterns are from the Museum L-A collections that were […]
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Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 49 Franklin comedy depicts town nuttier than 'FrUiTCaKeS'
RUMFORD — Mix together a batch of fruitcakes, three dozen Christmas trees, 10,000 outdoor Christmas lights, a chicken pox epidemic, two southern spinsters, an estranged old man, a lost cat named Tutti-Frutti and a Christmas hog named Buster and the result is a story of alienation, understanding and reconciliation. Into this world will come Jamie, […]
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Powerful young fiddler at Oasis Wednesday
LEWISTON — The Oasis of Music is proud to present fiddler Owen Kennedy of Winthrop this Wednesday, Dec.13, from 12:30-1 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 247 Bates St. This program will include maritime and Celtic fiddle music, as well as some festive holiday tunes. Owen Kennedy is a12-year old violinist and fiddler, who currently studies […]
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Capital City Improv at Johnson Hall
GARDINER — Capital City Improv will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center on Water Street. Doors open at 7 p.m. Using audience suggestions and interviews, Capital City Improv creates unique, on-the-spot comedy shows that live for one night only. Since coming to Maine in 1998, Dennis Price, […]
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Looking Back on December 12
100 years ago, 1917Lewiston has been without streetlights for a week because its credit, in the opinion of the Holyoke Machinery Co. of Holyoke, Mass., isn’t worth $20. Material necessary to effect repairs on the broken gears at the municipal plant is now on the way here and the lights may be in order by […]