PORTLAND — The nonprofit Make Music Portland will celebrate the summer solstice by opening up public spaces around Portland for musicians for a day full of free concerts, musical lessons and group jam sessions in June. This fourth annual event will take place as hundreds of other cities around the world also celebrate the solstice […]
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Looking Back on March 8
100 years ago, 1916The furniture store of Ballard Chandler Co., Lisbon Street, have personally offered to the committee of the Better Baby contest, a beautiful reed baby carriage, finished natural, to be given as a prize to the best physically developed baby from the age of one month to one year, after the judges have […]
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Author to speak about India’s environment
LEWISTON — Nonfiction writer Meera Subramanian will read from and discuss her book on India’s environment at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at Bates College. The book is titled “A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis From the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka.” In this, her first book, Subramanian […]
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Work by local artists on display at CMMC
LEWISTON — Paintings by Irene Duplissis and photographs by Scott Ainsworth are on display throughout March at the Central Maine Medical Center Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery. The works are in the main lobby hallway near the 60 High St. entrance. Duplissis has been painting professionally for many years. She has devoted much time […]
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Looking Back on March 7
100 years ago, 1916The next lecture in the George Colby Chase course will be given at the Chapel, Bates College, Monday evening. March 18th. It is believed that this lecture by Robert Frost will make a fitting climax to the series of strong and popular lectures that have been given this season in the course. […]
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Bears host St. Patrick’s Day dance March 12
PARIS — The Swingin’ Bears Square Dance Club will hold a St. Patrick’s Day dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at Oxford Hills Middle School, 100 Pine St. Walt Bull and Gracie Bull will call mainstream and plus dances with Carol Arsenault the cuer. Refreshments will be served starting at 7:45 p.m. […]
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Looking Back on March 5
100 years ago, 1916Plans are being completed for the bird house exhibition in City hall the last of March under the direction of the Androscoggin County Humane Society. It is expected that the Auburn boys will have a fine exhibit of about a hundred bird houses and the Lewiston boys about one hundred twenty-five. 50 […]
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‘AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY’ CLT to hold next auditions March 13, 14
AUBURN — L/A Community Little Theatre announces upcoming auditions for the June production of Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County.” Auditions will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 13, and Monday, March 14, at the theater, 30 Academy St., Auburn. A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston […]
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Squid Jiggers at UMA on Sunday, March 13
AUGUSTA — The “Concerts at Jewett” Series sponsored by the University of Maine at Augusta College of Arts and Sciences, and the UMA Senior College, will feature Dave Rowe with The Squid Jiggers at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 13, at Jewett Hall Auditorium. A snow date is set for March 20. This concert will include […]
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Humor, compassion wittily woven into TPT’S next play
‘What Rhymes with America’penned by woman who writes for ‘House of Cards’ LEWISTON — “What Rhymes with America” is the poignant and funny play coming to The Public Theatre stage March 11- 20. The New England premiere of a 2012 Off-Broadway hit, this play explores the lives, the dreams and heartbreak of a recently divorced dad, his […]