NEW GLOUCESTER — Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village will offer a series of traditional craft workshops and educational nature walks Saturday, Sept. 17. Traditional craft workshops include Natural Dyes for Wool with Mary Elkin of A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm. She will take participants through a full day of learning to dye wool skeins with plants […]

100 years ago, 1916Roy Fuller, representing a New York firm, was in Lewiston yesterday. As part of his advertising equipment he had with him a live raccoon that, attached to a chain, attracted much attention. That a raccoon is a rare animal to some people was demonstrated by the words of one woman who passed […]

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LEWISTON — Museum L-A will hold a “one-of-a-kind” sale  from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, at the atrium in the Bates Mill Complex, 35 Canal St., next to the museum. The museum must make room for its collections so other things must necessarily be “let go.” No artifacts or any part of […]

AUBURN — The 2017 Emerge Film Festival will be held April 27-30 and will return to favorite venue locations like the Franco Center, Community Little Theatre, Bates’ Olin Arts Center and Bates’ Schaeffer Theater, the group announced Friday. The Emerge Film Festival has also announced that film submissions are now being accepted for the 2017 event […]

AUBURN —Auburn Public Library will present “No Laughing Matter: The Pulitzer Prize and the Art of Editorial Cartooning,” a lecture series on editorial cartooning in September and October. The series will feature talks by two award-winning cartoonists and the former Director of Maine Archives and Museums, and an exhibit of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoons from years past. […]

Adam Tice is L/A Arts’ current exhibitor in the Art & Ale window at Gritty’s for the month of September. A Lewiston resident, Tice is self-taught and has a studio in his home. The paintings are of richly lit scenes, locally as well as scenes from the coast of Maine. The dramatic rocky coast first […]

Looking for musicians who playflute, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto and tenor sax, French horn or tuba AUBURN — Rehearsals for the Auburn Community Concert Band holiday concert season will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 14., from 7 to 9 p.m. at the High Street Congregational Church, located between High and Pleasant Streets, in Auburn.  The band has a […]