100 years ago, 1916Workmen at the Foss-Packard Shoe Shop were told yesterday that they could keep on working as the shop would not close down. This came as a surprise to many of the men and some of them had new positions engaged but it is understood that nearly all of them will stay on […]

100 years ago, 1916(Advertisement) The Atwood Market, E. H. Timberlake, prop., 177 Lisbon St., Tel. 6, Auto Delivery. Lobsters Today at the Old Price. The prices on lobsters have advanced but today we shall sell at the old prices. Lobsters boiled per lb, 32 cents; Lobsters Live per lb, 20 cents. 50 years ago, 1966The […]

TURNER — Satori, a folk rock/jazz band, will play at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, at the Turner gazebo. Satori brings a mix of original compositions and interpretations of rock and jazz-rock classics from Jeff Beck, Alphonse Mouzon, Eric Johnson, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, David Grissom, Steve Khan, Bill Frisell, Deep Purple and others. Laurent Brondel […]

PARIS — Celebration Barn Theater will present two shows July 23 featuring over a dozen performances from over 20 artists in its biggest event of the season. At 2 p.m., the Big Barn Family Show provides young audiences with a variety of performers in a kid-friendly environment designed to give them a chance to learn about the arts. The […]

ROCKLAND — The 23rd North Atlantic Blues Festival is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, at Rockland Public Landing. The nationally acclaimed festival was winner of the 2002 Keeping the Blues Alive Award for promoters of the year. Last year, over 15,000 blues fans attended. Show begins at 11 a.m. Saturday and […]

DENMARK — Denmark’s Reader’s Theatre will present an evening of new work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, July 20, 21 and 22. Reader’s Theatre is a special performance style in which the actor/readers do not memorize, but read from their scripts, talking to each other as if in a mirror at the back […]

GREENE — Singer-songwriter Max Ater, an up-and-coming pop/soul artist from southern Maine, will perform at 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, July 22, at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial. His father, comedian Johnny Ater, will join him at 7 p.m. for a music/comedy combination show. Max Ater, 23, is best known for winning Maine’s Got Talent! in […]

        WATERVILLE — The  major summer exhibit at the Colby College Museum of Art includes 48 of the 100 etchings by Pablo Picasso known collectively as “The Vollard Suit.” The collection was named for Ambroise Vollard, the important Paris art dealer who comissioned the works. These etchings, made between 1930 -1937, are […]

100 years ago, 1916The public utilities commission today issued a supplementary order that the proposal of the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville Street Railway to restore the original five-cent limit at Harris Hill Road for persons riding between that point and Mechanic Falls . . . in this case be approved, so that the distance between […]