DEAR ABBY: I am a 16-year-old girl, and I’m having a conflict with my mom over my car. Her car broke down and she needed to use mine, which is completely understandable, and I agreed. However, I have a work schedule I have to stick to, and I need my car to get to and […]
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Posted inEncore, Things to Do
Ward Hayden & The Outliers plan Brownfield concert
Ward Hayden & The Outliers (formerly Girls Guns & Glory) will perform at 8 p.m. Friday April 23, at Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Road, in Brownfield. The band was formed as a way to break from the music so commonly found on popular radio airwaves. Hayden’s foray into country music and early […]
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Palaver Strings Beehive Chamber Series: “Beyond the Offbeats” to be staged at Johnson Hall
Palaver Strings Beehive Chamber Series: “Beyond the Offbeats,” will perform a livestreamed concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 24, from the Johnson Hall stage, at 280 Water St. in Gardiner. The concert will feature viola duo Elizabeth Moore and Lysander Jaffe. Moore, viola co-artistic director and programming director, grew up in midcoast Maine and was […]
Posted inEncore
Looking Back on April 20
100 Years Ago: 1921 Rehearsals for the “1921 Minstrel Elks” production are being held every evening this week at 7:30 o’clock In the Elks Home, corner Ash and Middle streets. The production is fast rounding into shape and promises to be the biggest of its kind this year. 50 Years Ago: 1971 A candy sale […]
Posted inSun Spots
AARP has appointments available for free tax return help at Auburn site
DEAR SUN SPOTS: The AARP Free Tax Preparation Program at Sacred Heart Church has appointments available in early May. We want to remind people who filed early and had unemployment income that although the IRS will automatically amend your return and refund the extra taxes you paid, to get your Maine refund of taxes paid […]
Posted inEncore
‘Lucky’ book signing planned in Lewiston
Event part of fundraising efforts for Christy Gardner’s service dog program, Mission Working Dogs
Posted inEncore
John Gawler to perform at Oasis of Music
John Gawler will perform at the Oasis of Music from 12:30-1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Gawler is well-known to Maine audiences as an elder of the Gawler Family, singers and players of traditional and contemporary music, who perform internationally and have recorded several CDs. […]
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Rumford’s Tom Fallon publishes new book ‘Creation Now With Words’
RUMFORD — Rumford author, editor and poet Tom Fallon has published a new book, “Creation Now With Words,” that in his own words “injects an avant-garde direction into the Maine literary scene.” Fallon, an octogenarian and former millworker, is well known in Maine literary circles for his experimentation with words. “Creation Now With Words” is […]
Posted inDr. Roach
There is more than one type of cancer for each organ
DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband recently died from anaplastic thyroid cancer. I always thought thyroid cancer was one of the most successfully treated cancers that exist. Could you please explain the difference between anaplastic thyroid cancer and regular thyroid cancer? Thank you very much. — M.A.S. ANSWER: I am very sorry to hear of your […]
Posted inDear Abby
Family estrangement is hard to explain to kids
DEAR ABBY: I am a woman who has been through a lot. I grew up thinking my grandmother was my mother, my mother was my sister, my uncle was my brother, and my own siblings my nieces and nephews. A “family issue” brought it all out in the open, and now I am estranged from […]