LEWISTON — Maine State Music Theatre’s performance of “The Taffetas” at Lewiston-Auburn’s Gendron Franco Center on the evening of Friday, Aug. 25 sold out so fast that a second show is scheduled for the same day at 2 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the center’s box office. All tickets for this demand-performance are $20 each for reserved […]
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Sandy River Players staging 'Greater Tuna'
FARMINGTON — The Sandy River Players will stage “Greater Tuna,” a comedy by Jaston Williams and Joe Sears for the fall productin. It takes the audience through a day in the lives of the citizens of Tuna, Texas, encountering such things as radio station OKKK, UFO sightings, a used- weapons sale, and celebrity murder. The […]
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Beauty, magic and sibling love for young readers
Richard Jackson and Suzy Lee’s “This Beautiful Day” (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy, ages 3-6) opens on a day that seems anything but beautiful: the sky is dark and heavy with layered clouds and rain sluicing down. Inside, tall windows are blurred with rain, the light outside is dim, and three children have apparently exhausted the possibilities of […]
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Looking Back on August 5
100 years ago, 1917Henry Hanson says that D. E. Parlin is the official wrecker at Lake Auburn and is growing wealthy on salvage that he gets for towing damaged craft to port. On the other hand, Parlin says that Henry keeps him quite busy enforcing the rules against swimming in the lake. 50 years ago, […]
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'Room to Play' at Celebration Barn
PARIS — On Saturday, Aug. 12, the Celebration Barn Theater presents “Room to Play” by Rob Torres, an international comedian who can be understood everywhere without saying a word. The show starts at 7:30 p.m,. For the past two decades, Torres has traveled to more than 50 countries performing in theaters circuses, galas, TV and film. […]
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Music fest finale at Deertrees Tuesday
HARRISON — The final concert of the 45th anniversary season of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, Tuesday, Aug. 8, at Deertrees Theater, will be both grand and exuberant in a true sense of celebration. From Beethoven’s divine Quintet for Piano and Winds to Gershwin’s remarkable “Rhapsody in Blue” to Martin?’s delightful Flute Trio to Poulenc’s irrepressible Sextet, this sparkling musical journey will […]
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Up-and-coming Night Tree at Temple Shalom
Night Tree, winner of the top award at the New England Conservatory of Music by unanimous vote, will perform at Temple Shalom, 74 Bradman St., Auburn, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 16. Ranging in age from 19 to 27, the three young women and three young men play new acoustic music with Scottish, Celtic and […]
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Misty Mountaineers at gazebo Tuesday
TURNER — Music for Mavis takes to the hills Tuesday, with the renowned Maine band The Misty Mountaineers, at 6:30 p.m., Aug. 8, at the gazebo on Route 117. Formed in 1975 by Wilf Clark, son of legendary cowboy singer Yodeling Slim Clark, in 1975 on St. Albans Mountain, he is the sole remaining member of the original band. […]
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Poet Sidney Wade to read in honor of Hugh Ogden
RANGELEY — On Sunday, Aug. 6, lovers of poetry will gather at 6 p.m. at the Ecopelagicon nature store, 7 Pond St., to honor poet Hugh Ogden, formerly of Poets’ Island, Rangeley (1937-2006). Sidney Wade of Rangeley and Gainesville, Florida, will read from her work. The event is free to all. Light refreshments will be […]
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Looking Back on August 4
100 years ago, 1917At the next meeting of the Lewiston City Government it is expected that an order will be introduced for the payment of all patrolmen who have been on duty since the beginning of the controversy over the make-up and control of the department. The men need the money, as they have now […]