RANGELEY — The Rangeley Friends of the Arts will present the Westerhoff Family Foundation Concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 2614 Main St. Admission is by donation. A reception to meet the performers will follow the concert in the church undercroft. Since 2005, Helga and Gary Westerhoff have […]

AUBURN — Café LA will host its first Ladies Comic Showcase at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, at 49 Spring St. Host is Angela Merrill of Maine Street Comedy. Mandy Appleton, Noreen Lacoy, Catherine Goding and Casey Sturgeon will get the laughs started. Krystal Kamenides and Ali Simpson, both recent performers in the Portland Comedy […]

WINTHROP — Nationally acclaimed Maine writer Monica Wood will speak at the Bailey Library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, as part of the library’s ongoing Winthrop Lakes Region Forum. Wood will discuss her new novel “The One-in-a-Million Boy.” Wood is the author of “When We Were the Kennedys,” the nationally renowned bestseller that recounts […]

100 years ago, 1916By a vote of 166 to 113, the employees of the various divisions of the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway at a secret meeting held at Auburn Hall, last evening, went on record in favor of the organization of a union. A committee, representative of the divisions — Lewiston, Augusta, Freeport. […]

100 years ago, 1916Booze by the keg, half barrel and barrel, marked for Lewiston parties, has been seized at Yarmouth by Cumberland county deputy sheriffs. A Portland paper said, “The brazen boldness of Boston booze shippers was never more clearly demonstrated than when they shipped in an open car, routing it through ‘safe’ territory, an […]

WELD — A free jazz concert featuring the Charlie Jennison Trio will be held Sunday, July 31, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the Weld Town Hall as part of the town’s bicentennial celebration.  The members of this talented group have collaborated in many ways over the past several decades, the most recent being their […]

MONMOUTH — To begin, give a big, blustery comic role to Bill Van Horn, popular 14-year-veteran at the Theater at Monmouth Then, match him up with Lucas Calzadas, third season with TAM, to play Figaro, a wily rogue who assists a couple of young lovers. That’s the recipe for a laugh-filled production of “The Barber […]

100 years ago, 1916Agnes Connor, the little nine year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Connor, of the Perkins Ridge road, Auburn, is the proud possessor of a pony which she earned in a magazine contest. During the spring and summer she has been taking subscriptions for the Women’s Home Weekly sending in a […]