GARDINER — Maine Event Comedy will stage a show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at Johnson Hall in Gardiner. Seats are $16 for adults, $14 for seniors. The show is for persons 21 years of age and older. Tickets are available at Johnson Hall’s box office from noon to 3 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Friday at 582-7144, […]

Mixers Bar, 136 Sabattus Road, will showcase double the trouble with two bands, The Ge3ks and Girls Just Want To Have Fun (an ’80s ladies tribute band) on Friday, May 27. There is no cover charge. Fun begins when the doors open at 6 p.m.; the band starts at 8:30 p.m.  The Ge3ks, Eric Hartmann, Jay […]

Two inventive and entertaining musicians will be appearing at Pedro O’Hara’s, 134 Main St., Lewiston. There is no cover charge for either show. John Hasnip, a singer/songwriter from Yeovil, England, will be appearing from 8-11 p.m. Friday, May 27. Hasnip is a top entertainer with a quick wit and a solid catalogue of songs, great […]

FARMINGTON — SugarWood Gallery Artist of the Month Mark Stofan of Farmington will be feted at an open house from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 3, during Farmington’s First Friday Art Walk. The public is invited. Refreshments will be served. Stofan was born and raised in Farmington and worked for GE Aircraft Engines in […]

100 years ago, 1916It would cost approximately $5,000 to mobilize in Lewiston on the Fourth of July all the military and naval forces of Maine, Adjutant General Geo. McL. Prosson has informed Mayor Brann of Lewiston. This item is now in the hands of a parade committee, which was appointed at a meeting of the […]

Bluezberry Jam, an eclectic mix of blues, jazz, rhythm and jam cooked up by five fun folks from Portland, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at the Village Coffeehouse of New Gloucester, 19 Gloucester Hill Road. Tickets are $10 at the door. This is the last coffeehouse before summer break. For more information, […]

RUMFORD — Nick Lavallee, a New Hampshire comedian who’s opened for Andrew “Dice” Clay, highlights Maine Event Comedy at 49 Frankin’s Mystic Theater, Saturday, June 11.  The show also features David Appleton, Paul Landwehr and host, Mark Turcotte. Lavallee was voted “Best Comedian” in 2010, 2011 and 2014 by the readers of New Hampshire’s Hippo […]

PARIS —  Oxford Hills’ “Early Evening Show” will return for the season with a performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at Celebration Barn Theater, 190 Stock Farm Road, South Paris. New shows are the first Saturday of every month through October. The “Early Evening Show“ is a spoof of late-night talk shows hosted by Mike Miclon.   […]

LIVERMORE — The Livermore Public Library will host an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 5, for author Stephanie Hanson Caisse of Mississippi. Caisse, a native of Portland, Ore., has written two books about the Vietnam War and her effort to find information on her father, Gary Norman Young, who died in […]

100 years ago, 1916Col. Frederic H. Parkhurst of Bangor, seeker for the republican nomination for Governor, was in Lewiston, Thursday afternoon. The Colonel said that he was not here for the purpose of working up political strength, as it did not appear fair to him to come into Androscoggin county and especially Lewiston for that […]