BATH — The Chocolate Church Arts Gallery announces an explosion of visual styles when the exhibit “New Perspectives,” featuring the work of Jack Gable and Anne Gable Allaire, opens in August. The opening reception, held from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, is open and free to the public. Gable, a contemporary realist painter and muralist, […]

BETHEL — The Mahoosuc Community Band will offer a summer concert at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1, at the West Parish Congregational Church in Bethel. The band has new music for this concert including a song by Neil Diamond and a Sousa march. Scott Hynek has built a vibraphone specifically to play for the band. […]

Ale House String Band will perform at 6 p.m. Friday, July 29, at Waterfront Park in Gardiner. The concert is part of Johnson Hall’s free Summer Waterfront Concert Series. The Ale House String Band was a happy accident. Oren Robinson is a classically trained vocalist, Brian Dunn is a wandering soul who picked up music […]

100 years ago, 1916Auto trucks are doing a rushing business this summer carrying parties to Taylor Pond. The bathing facilities at this resort are excellent and many are the people of the two cities who take advantage of this chance to cool off. And swimming is not the only attraction if one is to judge […]

  PARIS – There will be a lot of clowning around going on at the Moore Park Art Show as part of a full day of live entertainment 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, July 31,. The rain date is Saturday, Aug. 6.  Organizers are pleased to partner with the Celebration Barn Theater to present […]

MONMOUTH —  Tony Kushner’s most joyfully theatrical play,  “The Illusion,”  freely adapted from Pierre Corneille’s original, opens at 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 29, at the Theater at Monmouth. An anxious father seeks to reunite with his estranged son and enlists the services of a powerful sorcerer. Visions reveal the romantic, adventurous and perilous life the son has […]

FARMINGTON — The public is welcome as the Emery Community Arts Center on the University of Maine at Farmington campus offers music under the stars with a summer concert on the lawn Thursday, July 28. Those wishing to attend should bring blankets and lawn chairs and kick back with a picnic lunch to listen to […]

100 years ago, 1916As a team in which were a man and woman came down Main street, Saturday afternoon, and approached Park street. the right forward wheel collapsed and the man was nearly thrown from the team. He was apparently under the influence of liquor and was indifferent to his misfortune. A bystander finally led […]

100 years ago, 1916It is reported that Lewiston restaurants are about to go up on the prices of ham and egg sandwiches, coffee, and one or two other staples of the quick lunch business. There has already been an increase in several Massachusetts and one or two Maine cities. 50 years ago, 1966Two Sun-Journal photographers, […]

          ROCKLAND — The only way to describe the new Center of Maine Contemporary Art is breathtaking.      It is probably the only building in Maine that would make Frank Lloyd Wright jealous.  It is spacious, compact, and exciting. Its sweeping vistas and spacious galleries show art to its best advantage. The building […]