LEWISTON — Works by two photographers are on display at the Central Maine Medical Center Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery throughout April. A collection of photographs by Kevin Lyons and Nancy Greindl are on display and may be purchased through the WHA Gift Shop,  adjacent to the Main Lobby. A percentage of sale proceeds […]

100 years ago, 1916At the risk of his own life, Ludger Doucette, an employee of the L. A. and W. St. Ry., crawled out on the thin ice at Tacoma Lake, last Saturday afternoon. and rescued a man who had broken through and who was struggling in the icy water. Another man who attempted the […]

GARDINER — The 17th year of the Early Evening Show, hosted by Maine’s own Mike Miclon, will get underway at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at Johnson Hall. This late-night talk show spoof has improvisation, sketch comedy, music, lots of special guests and surprises. No two shows are alike. The cast brings their warm personalities […]

Pianist Kathy Kienitz will perform the music of Bach, Chopin and Rachmaninov at the Oasis of Music, Trinity Church in Lewiston, Wednesday, April 13, from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Admission is free. Kienitz is organist at Grace Lutheran Church in Auburn, as well as a pianist versed in solo and chamber music repertoire. Her program […]

LEWISTON — On Wednesday evening, April 13, at 6:30 p.m. Morgan Callan Rogers will speak on her recently published novel, “Written on My Heart.” The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session,  a book sale and signing. Rogers grew up in Bath, and spent her summers in a small cottage with her parents and […]

LEWISTON — Concert artist David Fung returns to the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston, Friday, April 15. The recital begins at 7 p.m. and will feature works by Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninov and Fung’s arrangement of Ravel’s “La Valse.”  Doors and bar open at 6 p.m. The concert is from 7 to 9 p. m. The playing of this Steinway artist has […]

100 years ago, 1916There is considerable interest in the motorcycle contest now being carried on by the Liggett & Myers Company in which the person securing the most coupons and cigarette fronts from the Fatima, Perfection, Piedmont and Oasis cigarettes, also the coupons from the packages of Dukes Mixture and Velvet tobacco, is to receive […]

RUMFORD — The Pennacook Art Center will open a new art show at 60 Lowell St., showing paintings, drawings and photographs by local artists. The River Valley Growth Council and Pennacook will host a public reception to meet the artists in the tech center lobby,  from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, April 14. This show […]

It took Herman Melville 135 chapters to get to the part in his 1851 classic “Moby Dick” when the massive sperm whale and the peg-legged Captain Ahab finally do battle. No spoiler here: Moby Dick wins, smashing his enormous head into Ahab’s ship, the Pequod, and sinking it. But it took 165 years for an […]