100 years ago, 1916Two Auburn boys were marooned on the island below Lewiston Falls Saturday afternoon. They had rowed up river and stopped on the island to rest. The boat, tho pulled up on the edge of the island, was set adrift by the swift waters and the first the young men know it had […]

AUBURN — Maine singer and recording artist Louis Philippe, a favorite of Central Maine music fans, will grace the stage — the altar, that is — at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at Sacred Heart Church, 8 Sacred Heart Way (off Western Avenue) in Auburn. The concert will benefit the Sister Elizabeth Platt Pipe Organ Fund […]

The Rangeley Friends of the Arts is sponsoring a day of music and dance folk history at the Rangeley Lakes Regional School with Old Grey Goose on Wednesday, April 27. In a series of daytime workshops, they will play old-time dance tunes on a variety of acoustic instruments; singing songs of love, work, diversity and […]

Wicked Illustrations Studio and Gallery, 140 Canal St., Lewiston,  hosts its 8th Annual Student Art Show during the month of May. The show will include works by Wicked Illustrations’ students, as well as K-12 art at students of the Lewiston Public Schools. The opening reception is from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 2.  Honorable mentions […]

LEWISTON — Colby College anthropology professor, Catherine Besteman will be talking about her latest book, “Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at the Lewiston Public Library, Tuesday. The program will also include a conversation about the work between the author and two leaders from Lewiston’s Somali Bantu […]

TURNER — Kathy Bennett and Thom Perkins will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Nezincot Farm, 284 Turner Center Road. Pizza and light refreshments will be served at 6 p.m. The pair perform an eclectic blend of original music and a wide variety of works by songwriters around the world. They seek out […]

100 years ago, 1916Going up Pine street in Lewiston one cannot fail to observe the home of Charles Herbury. In one of the large front windows is hung an American flag. It is no ordinary, small of size, made expressly for decorative purposes. Not a bit. It is a full grown edition of the stars […]

Friday, April 22, Greg Jamie, who sings and plays guitar for the projects O’Death and Blood Warrior, shares songs from these projects as well as some new material. Joining him on the bill are Roy Orbitussin (Max Hansen of Mouth Washington) and Wesley Hartley.  The show begins at 8 p.m. There is no cover. FMI: call 376-3344. 

Saturday night, April 23, the classic rock band The Veggies returns to Fusion night club at the Ramada Inn, 390 Pleasant St., Lewiston. The band will play music of the ’80s, ’90s and today. Music starts at 9 p.m. No cover charge.

100 years ago, 1916On an average there is handled at the Lewiston post office 20,000 separate pieces of mail matter a day. This includes letters, postcards, newspapers and other periodicals and various parcel post packages. In spite of this vast amount of business, the errors do not average one a day, and many of these […]