PARIS — The Swingin’ Bears Square Dance Club will hold its June dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at Oxford Hills Middle School, 100 Pine St., South Paris. Caller Darrel Sprague will call a mainstream and plus dance. Bernie Porter is the cuer. Refreshments will be available beginning at 8 p.m. There […]
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Looking Back on June 6
100 years ago, 1916As a demonstration of what highway improvement means, all one has to do is to take a look at Campus Avenue. Up to this year it has been one of the worst in the city. Every rainstorm has left it a mud porridge. Last year the public works department went to work […]
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Looking Back on June 4
100 years ago, 1916In making ready for projected expansion of the Cushman-Hollis shoe factory plant in Auburn Wednesday, John Greenleaf Sons Co. punched a hole towards the Far East antipodes about 40 feet, in order to test the quality of the far-below foundation. About 40 feet below the surface they found quicksand, such as emerged […]
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Author to speak on autism at SeniorsPlus
LEWISTON — Maine businessman and author Derek Volk will read from and discuss his memoir “Chasing the Rabbit: A Dad’s Life Raising a Son on the Spectrum” from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, June 9, at the SeniorsPlus Education Center, 8 Falcon Road. The event is part of the center’s Maine Author Series. A question-and-answer […]
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USAF Langley Winds to play at Bethel, Farmington
The United States Air Force Langley Winds of the USAF Heritage of America Band will perform free, public concerts at Telstar High School in Bethel at 3 p.m., Sunday, June 12, and at the University of Maine at Farmington at 7 p.m, Tuesday, June 12. Langley Winds is a pioneering woodwind and percussion ensemble offering […]
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Molly Gawler’s ‘Droplet Dance’ staged at Celebration Barn
PARIS — Celebration Barn Theater will present a fusion of dance, circus, story and music with Molly Gawler’s “Droplet Dance” at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 11. Gawler grew up on Buttermilk Hill on a small farm in Maine. She has studied ballet, modern and improvisational dance and eventually began working with Pilobolus Dance Theater in 2006. […]
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Kohler is featured artist at Wicked Illustrations
LEWISTON — Ryan Kohler is the featured artist of the month for June at Wicked Illustrations Studio and Gallery, 140 Canal St. Kohler makes art that is both playful and serious, light-hearted with disastrous undertones. He is obsessed with paradox. His subject matter focuses on the inventions of mankind. He paints them boldly, in bright […]
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Looking Back on June 3
100 years ago, 1916The “Clean-up Committee” of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce met Wednesday night at the rooms of the chamber. Many suggestions were made regarding the conduct of the work and it was voted to ask the street department, or board of public works, to provide galvanized iron barrels for waste paper, banana peels […]