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Looking Back on April 7

100 Years Ago: 1921 The Stick-to it Club will give a complimentary Bird evening in the Greene Town Hall on Monday evening. They have fortunately secured Rev. A. E. Wilson of Boston to give a Bird talk. Mr. Wilson stops on his way home from a lecture given in Belfast on a previous evening. There […]

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Johnson Hall to stage Capital City Improv

Johnson Hall in Gardiner will livestream Capital City Improv — Up the Stream! at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 10. Capital City: Up the Stream is a live, interactive comedy show broadcast over the internet from the stage of Johnson Hall. Using live audience members and video streamers alike, Capital City Improv uses suggestions and stories to […]

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Looking Back on April 6

100 Years Ago: 1921 H. Tremblay of Lewiston obtained the contract Thursday from the SS Kresge company of Detroit, Mich., for remodeling the store on Lisbon Street, formerly occupied by the Novelty Cloak Store. Work has already begun. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The area’s newest bed and breakfast is gearing up for its first full […]

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Looking Back on April 5

100 Years Ago: 1921 The police have a little of everything to do in their line of work. Early this week a woman’s hat blew into the canal. Later in the day the hat was rescued by a member of the Lewiston police department. It is now resting quietly at the police station, awaiting Identification […]

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Looking Back on April 3

100 Years Ago: 1921 Dr. E. P. Goodrich of Lewiston, District Health Officer, is kept very busy these days. He returned Friday from a business trip which took him pretty well over the state, to find an urgent call waiting for him to go immediately to Stratton, where several  cases of Scarlet Fever have broken out. He left […]

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Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition on view

ORONO — The University of Maine Department of Art will present the 2021 Juried Student Art Exhibition, “Here and There,” that features work by current students in studio art courses. The exhibition will be on display through April 30 in Lord Hall Gallery. The venue provides an opportunity for undergraduate students at all levels to showcase […]