DEAR SUN SPOTS: Your help is needed again. There was a place that took used birthday and Christmas cards. Could you tell me if it is still in business? — No Name, Hebron ANSWER: The charity St. Jude’s Ranch for Children is indeed still accepting those cards as well as selling the resulting product. You […]
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Science journalist will give ‘night sky’ lecture at Bates
LEWISTON — Science journalist Babak Tafreshi will give a talk about exploring the importance of the night sky on Monday, Oct. 22, at Bates College. Tafreshi is founder of The World At Night (TWANight.org), promoting world peace and environmental stewardship through an exhibition of photographs of the night sky over prominent Earth-bound landmarks. His “The World At […]
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TED talk at Bates College slates speakers
LEWISTON — Coke and Mentos performers EepyBird and a local architect promoting a server farm at Bates Mill No. 5 will be among the speakers featured at the TEDxDirigo:Villages. The daylong event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 20, at Bates College. People interested in attending should apply for an invitation on the Internet at http://tedxdirigo.com/request-an-invitation. […]
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Canoeists ‘saved by Batman’
AUBURN — Walking away from the boat launch after rescuing a Bates College senior and her father Saturday afternoon, Dick Vautrinot snickered, “they were just saved by Batman.” Vautrinot owned and operated Accurate Wildlife for 20 years, where he developed exclusive techniques specifically for bat and bird exclusions. BATMAN is the vanity plate on […]
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Bates campus somber; respects paid to student
This weekend is parents weekend at Bates. As parents and their students walked to and from campus buildings, students remembered Pappas. Freshman Nicole Cueli said she talked to him off and on during the first month of school. “He’s a sweetheart,” she said. “He graduated in the top 10 in his class. He’s a genius, […]
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Bates student still critical after Saturday’s fall; police investigate
LEWISTON — Local police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fall of a Bates College student who was listed Thursday in critical condition. Lt. Michael McGonagle said police are talking to witnesses and visited the stairwell of Parker Hall where Troy J. Pappas, 18, of Eliot fell down a stairwell. “We want to find out […]
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Couple of concerts: Acclaimed chamber musicians, rhythm-and-blues powerhouse will perform at Bates
LEWISTON — The first two weeks of October will bring some of the nation’s most respected chamber musicians and a powerhouse rhythm-and-blues singer to the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College. On Saturday, Oct. 6, six musicians representing the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will play music by Bruch, Brahms and Dohnanyi. About […]
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Bates to present masterwork by pioneering choreographer
LEWISTON — Early next month, Bates College dancers will give two performances of widely diverse repertoire, including the influential masterwork “Tensile Involvement” by Alwin Nikolais. Featuring the Bates Dance Company, student dance clubs and faculty performers, these performances on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6-7, the college’s parents and family weekend, are open to the public at no […]
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Bates student injured in fall in stairwell
LEWISTON — A Bates College student from Eliot was seriously injured over the weekend after falling down a stairwell. Troy J. Pappas, 18, a first-year student at the college was taken to Central Maine Medical Center for treatment after he fell down a stairwell Saturday at about 9:30 p.m. in Parker Hall, an on-campus student […]
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Bates College panel to discuss history, future of Clean Water Act
LEWISTON — One of the landmark environmental laws developed by the late U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie, the Clean Water Act turns 40 in mid-October. Bates College, from which Muskie graduated in 1936, will present a panel discussion exploring the history and future of the Clean Water Act at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, in the […]