STANDISH — Auditions for “Clue, The Musical,” will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, and Tuesday, July 19, at the Schoolhouse Arts Center. Please bring sheet music and come prepared to sing 16 bars of a Broadway-type song along with a quick range check. An accompanist will be provided. Be […]

GARDINER — The Pete Kilpatrick Band will be performing at Johnson Hall’s free Summer Waterfront Concert Series at 6 p.m., Friday, July 8. This is a free concert down on Gardiner’s Waterfront Park. Visit their website at www.johnsonhall.org for a full listing of all of the free Summer Waterfront Concerts. Or visit their box office […]

STRATTON — The Sandy River Ramblers will bring their distinctly Maine-flavored bluegrass act to the Stratton Community Building on Friday, July 8, in a concert sponsored by Rte. 27 Arts. The Ramblers’ 2012 CD, “Cry of the Loon and other original songs about Maine,” has been called “a gift to Mainers” by Maine writer-columnist-sportsman George […]

100 years ago, 1916 Criticism is being made in the way the big washout on the road to Lewiston is being left, and Mechanic Falls people who wish to travel on that road are asking why something isn’t being done. “It was over a month ago that the washout occurred,” said a man today who […]

HARRISON — New England Celtic Arts in collaboration with Deertrees Theatre will present a very special night with three of the region’s master songwriters Wednesday, July 6. Curtain is at 7:30. The Master Songwriters concert will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Deertrees Theatre at 156 Deertrees Road in Harrison. The Theater will launch its Celtic […]

100 years ago, 1916In spite of the rain that rendered the judges decisions difficult, the firemen’s muster which was held on Bates street was an entire success. The enthusiasm, yells of encouragement, argument, and offers to bet ran high. Although the hose-reel race was scheduled to commence at 12:30 it was two o’clock before the […]

FARMINGTON — The Sandy River 3, an offshoot of the popular local Bluegrass band, the Sandy River Ramblers, will perform a free concert, on Saturday, July 9, from 4 to 7 p.m., on the lawn behind Mosher’s Meats and Seafood, 595 Farmington Falls Road.  The trio consists of Stan Keach (guitar), Bud Godsoe (banjo and […]

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MONMOUTH — William Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 8, at the Theater at Monmouth. King Ferdinand and his fellow scholars swear an oath devoting themselves to reading, writing and abstaining from food, alcohol and women for three years. How inconvenient, then, that the beautiful Princess of France and her ladies-in-waiting […]

LIVERMORE — The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore opens for the season on Tuesday, July 5.  Costumed interpreters, who use third and first person interpretation techniques to portray real people who lived in the Norlands’ neighborhood in the 1800s, are ready to greet visitors to each historic building. Visitors may  meet “Aunt Clara” cooking in […]