LEWISTON — A small-town diner in Kansas on a snowy night becomes a hothouse for human relationships in Bates College’s production of William Inge’s comic drama “Bus Stop.” Directed by Martin Andrucki, Dana Professor of Theater, performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and Monday, Nov. 3-5 and 7; and at 2 p.m. […]
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Mitchell keynote Thursday at Bates College
LEWISTON — Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell will give the keynote speech Thursday at Bates College as the college holds a week-long event, “Open to the World: Bates Celebrates Unbounded Learning.” Mitchell will talk at 5:15 p.m. Thursday in the Bates College Chapel, 275 College St., following the rededication of the 1890’s Hedge and Roger […]
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A look back at the week’s news
As we approach the flu season, cheers to drafters of new policies that require all health care employees at Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center to get flu shots or wear masks. The move is designed to reduce the chance that already sick and weakened patients will get the flu from […]
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Bates kicking off weeklong ‘Unbounded Learning’ celebration
LEWISTON — George Mitchell, the former U.S. senator who served as President Obama’s special envoy for Middle East peace until last spring, will deliver the keynote address during a weeklong celebration of international and interdisciplinary education at Bates College. Mitchell will speak at 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Bates College Chapel, 275 College […]
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Bates invites public to watch sports, free on L-A Community Day
LEWISTON — Lewiston-Auburn students, their parents and residents are invited to the Bates College campus Saturday to watch a soccer, lacrosse or football game, free. Lewiston-Auburn youth football games will be held in the college’s new multimillion-dollar football stadium Saturday. A harvest fair atmosphere, with pumpkin-carving and face-painting, will be offered next to the football […]
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Civic Forum Series to consider Androscoggin
LEWISTON — The Civic Forum Series at Bates College will offer presentations about the Androscoggin River and about social entrepreneurship during October. Bowdoin College faculty members Michael Kolster, a photographer, and Matthew Klingle, a historian and environmentalist, explore the Androscoggin River’s past, present and future in a presentation at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17. The […]
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Medieval scholars to visit Bates College for ‘Hard Times’ conference
LEWISTON — Bates College will host the 38th annual New England Medieval Conference beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in Room G65, Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). The theme is “Medieval Miseries: Responses to Hard Times.” Conference topics range from the plague to the connection between physical disabilities and royal ambition, from […]
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Bates College presentation to examine humanitarian work at U.S.-Mexico border
LEWISTON — Participants in an effort to provide humanitarian aid to Mexican migrants entering the U.S. will describe their work in a Bates College event at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, in Room G65 of Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). Claudia Aburto Guzman, associate professor of Spanish at Bates, leads this Public Works […]
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Award-winning nature poet to lecture at Bates
LEWISTON — Camille Dungy, an award-winning environmental poet and editor of the first anthology of nature poetry by African-American writers, will present the Otis Lecture at Bates College on Thursday, Oct. 6. The 7:30 p.m. lecture in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., is free, but tickets are required. Call 786-6135 or […]
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Bates concert blends video, music and desert tales
LEWISTON — A Native American musician and visual artist, a singer from a self-described fusion-trance-zouk band, a video artist and an avant-garde composer will join forces for a multimedia presentation at Bates College on Friday, Oct. 7. Brad Kahlhamer, long active in the Lower Manhattan music scene, and vocalist Kelsey Barrett of the Brooklyn-based band […]