RANGELEY — Eight films from the Maine International Film Festival will be shown at MIFF in the Mountains July 30 through Aug. 2 at the Rangeley Friends of the Arts Lakeside Theater in Rangeley. A different film will be shown at 5 and 8 p.m. each evening over the course of four nights. Also […]
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Looking Back on July 11
100 years ago, 1917Following weeks of negotiation, conductors and motormen of the Lewiston & Waterville Street Railway company, with headquarters in Lewiston, are to receive an increase of four cents an hour. The new agreement provides a graduating wage scale of from 27 to 31 cents an hour, depending on years of service. 50 years […]
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Looking Back on July 10
100 years ago, 1917The Petit Journal, one of Lewiston’s French papers, printed on Sunday a sensational story in which it charged that “Le Petit Canada,” the great district comprising River, Oxford and Cedar streets, south of St. Mary’s Church, and inhabited largely by Franco-Canadians, is the most dangerous, so far as the fire hazard is […]
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Maine Jazz Camp free concerts begin Sunday
FARMINGTON — Beginning Sunday, July 9, Maine Jazz Camp offers free, public, faculty performances Sundays through Thursdays starting at 8 p.m. in C131 in the Roberts Learning Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. The camp ends Saturday, July 22. Under the direction of jazz vocalist Christine Correa, the Maine Jazz Camp offers students the opportunity […]
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Looking Back on July 7
100 years ago, 1917The Dover soldiers, Co. F., who have been stationed at the old Webster grammar school in Auburn, and on patrol duty at railroad bridges, left by the lower Maine Central at 6:45 Thursday morning, bag and baggage. They will go into camp at Augusta, Camp Keyes, with other units of the Maine […]
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Veggies at Crooked Hook
Saturday night, July 8, the classic rock band The Veggies returns to Crooked Hook Tavern, 5 North Main St., Mechanic Falls. Music starts at 8 p.m. No cover charge.
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The Depths at Mixers
Playing classic rock to New Age, The Depths performs Friday, July 7, at Mixers, 136 Sabattus Road, Sabattus. The band plays a wide range of covers, including: One Republic, Def Leppard, Billy Squire, Alanis Morrisett, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Jett, Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum, Chris Stapleton, Michael Jackson, Daft Punk, Poison, Grace Potter, Cheap Trick […]
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Early Mornings' rock-blues at Guthries
On Friday, July 7, The Early Mornings will perform at Guthries, 115 Middle St., Lewiston. The Early Mornings are a Portland-based rock-blues band with Andrew LaVogue on guitar, Jonathan Moore on drums, vocals by Brit Martin, and Nicholas Clark on bass. The group’s debut album will be released in September. The show begins at 8 p.m. There is no […]
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Open house for Ann Woolsey at SugarWood Friday
FARMINGTON — SugarWood Gallery artist of the month, Ann Woolsey, will be feted at an open house reception Friday, July 7, from 4 to 7 p.m. The public is invited. Refreshments will be served. Woolsey’s mother, Lena Fellows Woolsey, who grew up in Farmington, but raised her family 500 miles south in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, saw to it […]
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Looking Back on July 6
100 years ago, 1917Henry W. Oakes of Auburn has been nominated to be the first Judge of the newly created Androscoggin superior court. The appointment is for seven years, and the new tribunal, which come legally into existence Saturday, is practically the same in its jurisdiction and in its offices as the superior court at […]