LEWISTON — A Bates College freshman studying in the Shetland Islands died Saturday after going for an evening swim, according to Scottish police who also said in a release that circumstances around 19-year-old Evan Dube’s death don’t appear suspicious. Dube was part of the Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project, in Scotland with nine other […]
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Bowdoin, Bates sales set for June 9, 16
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Always save your column — the best — for last. Can you find out when Bates College will have its annual yard sale this year? Thanks so much! — Bev MacNeill, bmacsquared@gwi.net ANSWER: Bates’ Clean Sweep will be Saturday, June 16, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. DEAR SUN SPOTS: Good morning! […]
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Downtowns ready for ‘College Night in Town’
LEWISTON — Lewiston and Auburn downtowns are getting ready for “College Night in Town” on Wednesday. The May 9 event will offer college students discount dining and the public 30 free musical and dance performances at six downtown venues. Organized by Bates College senior Mikey Pasek and junior Megan Murphy together with the Androscoggin County […]
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Benoit Bourque brings boundless energy to Bates
LEWISTON — Noted French-Canadian folk musician and dancer Benoit Bourque will be joined by family and friends in concert Friday, May 18, and Sunday, May 20, at Bates College. Bourque, a member of the Quebecois band La Bottine Souriante (a multiple winner of the Juno Award, Canada’s version of the Emmy), has plied his skills […]
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A cappella voices lend harmonies to gazebo benefit
Joining them on the benefit bill will be Chase the Fiddlers, an acoustic ensemble playing traditional New England, Celtic, and French-Canadian dance music. The fiddlers are led by the well-known Greg Boardman, who teaches applied music at Bates College. “With this concert” said Turner Public Library Trustee Anthony Shostak, “we provide popular entertainment consistent with […]
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Dragapalooza in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Buckle up! The the 4th Annual Lewistunning Dragapalooza is in the works. The popular benefit for Outright L/A has only grown in its scope and outrageousness since it began in 2009. Staged at the Schaeffer Theater on the Bates College campus at 305 College St., this year’s event takes place on Saturday, May 5. […]
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Bates College, EPA revisit images of Androscoggin
LEWISTON — Four-decades-old images of the Androscoggin River, choking with pollution until it frothed at the surface, are being revisited. A massive pictorial archive of the country’s environmental problems has been unearthed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, posted on the U.S. National Archives website and curated into a traveling exhibit titled, “Documerica.” On Friday, […]
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You weigh in on hot topics in the news
Here’s a look at what some members of our online audience had to say about stories in the news so far this week. On a story about the sentencing of a former Lewiston firefighter who was convicted of assaulting his daughter, Carl Kimball wrote: “Once again we see that a title or uniform isn’t some […]