DEAR SUN SPOTS: Jay Baptist Church, at 29 Smith St., in Jay, will serve a free public supper Saturday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The menu will include baked beans, hot dogs, chili, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, rolls, desserts and beverages. — Kay, Jay ANSWER: A baked bean supper is a Maine tradition. I hope […]
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The Harp Twins bring their fall tour to Rumford
The world’s only identical twin professional harpists, the Harp Twins — Camille and Kennerly Kitt — will kick off their Autumn tour with a return performance at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 49 Franklin’s Mystic Theater in Rumford. The sisters were trained classically (with university degrees in harp performance) but have a passion […]
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Don and Cindy Roy bring fiddle music to Oasis of Music
The Oasis of Music will present the fiddle music of Don and Cindy Roy beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at Trinity Commons in Lewiston. The Roys are the premier fiddle and piano duo of Maine, whose music has been dubbed “the aural signature of the pine tree state.” They direct the acclaimed […]
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Gilbert & Sullivan make a triumphant return to Theater at Monmouth
Theater at Monmouth opens A Celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan featuring “Cox & Box” as their fall show with remaining showtimes at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, and at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24. Then, after the interval, journey through Gilbert & Sullivan’s musical catalogue with an Original Revue written by Adam P. […]
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Author Jennifer Lunden to discuss latest book at Denmark Arts Center
Author Jennifer Lunden discusses her most recent book, “American Breakdown,” at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24, at the Denmark Arts Center. Her wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James — ultimately […]
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Lynne McGhee returns with ‘Dead Girls, the Musical’ at Denmark Arts Center
Musical theater vocalist Lynne McGhee is back with “Dead Girls, the Musical” a musical tribute to iconic pop queens who have left us at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 22, at the Denmark Arts Center. Vocalist/comedienne Lynne McGhee and the Dead Girls Band salute divas from the great beyond: Patsy Cline, Cass Elliot, Karen Carpenter, […]
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Looking Back on Sept. 19
100 Years Ago: 1923 Mrs. Evelyn B. Levine of Waterville, a member of the Massachusetts Bar, was admitted to the Somerset bar by Judge Philbrook. Her name was presented by County Attorney James H. Thorne. Her husband is an attorney in Waterville. 50 Years Ago: 1973 Wednesday State police were attempting to track down a […]
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Birth mother holds no responsibility for adoptive parents
DEAR ABBY: Would it be wrong to reach out to my biological mother for financial help? I was adopted when I was just 2 months old. I was lucky to have wonderful parents, but they are in poor health, and it’s affecting both of them physically. I’m going into debt helping them out financially. They […]
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Pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis comes years after losing left lung
DEAR DR. ROACH: In the 1950s, I worked for a plumber covering pipes with asbestos. In 1976, I lost my entire lung on the left side, operated on at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. From that moment in 1976, I never had a problem with my other lung until about three months ago, when […]