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Preserve your produce: Cooperative offers canning classes
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Do you know of any classes or workshops in our area that teach canning of fruits and vegetables? — Wendy, Sweden. ANSWER: Several food preservation classes are being offered by Maine Adult Education this spring. The Adult Learning Center, 486 Turner Center Road in Turner, will offer a Preserving the Harvest class […]
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Lisbon Street tenant charged with arson
LEWISTON — Police charged a 24-year-old Lewiston man with arson, after a Sunday night fire that investigators say started in his Lisbon Street apartment and left more than 15 people homeless. Christopher Violette told police he’d been “planning on throwing himself into the fire but decided against it,” according to a police affidavit. Firefighters had […]
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Fuel The Arts, Art & Tattoo Expo at Ramada, March 16-19
LEWISTON — The 5th Annual Fuel The Arts Art & Tattoo Expo will be held at the Ramada Inn, Thursday, March 16, through Sunday, March 19. More than 50 working tattoo artists and vendors from all over New England will be there. Tattoo contests, raffles, prizes, paint-and-sip, comedians, and much more will take place over the course […]
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Comedian Bob Marley at UMF Thursday
FARMINGTON — On Thursday, March 16, at 6 p.m. in Nordica Auditorium at UMF, Maine comedian Bob Marley will be perform. Tickets, which are $20 for community members and $5 for students with their student ID are on sale in the Olsen Student Center from 5:45 to 7 p.m. until Tuesday, March 14. Tickets will be sold at the door […]
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Middle school string orchestra to perform at Oasis of Music
The Lewiston Middle School String Orchestra is scheduled to perform Wednesday, March 15, at the Oasis of Music, from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 247 Bates St., Lewiston. Twenty-two student musicians playing violins, violas, cellos and basses, led by director Greg Boardman, will play music from Handel and Coldplay, with traditional Jewish, […]
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CLT names cast for 'Gypsy'
AUBURN — CLT is announcing the cast of their next production, “Gypsy,” being brought to the stage this April. This classic Broadway smash chronicles the story of Gypsy Rose Lee, America’s most famous striptease artist. The story is told from the perspective of Gypsy’s mother, Mama Rose, who is a hard-driving show business mom. Rose […]
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Shawnee Peak racers go to the mattresses
Adam Armington of Lovell, Maine, right, holds on as his team goes airborne as they cross the finish line during The Mattress Race at the Shawnee Peak ski area, Saturday, March 11, 2017, in Bridgton. The annual late-season event had a theme of “a tropical vacation,” but racers had to deal with mid-winter conditions and […]
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Four treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in Jay
JAY — Four people showed signs of carbon monoxide poisoning Friday night and were taken to a hospital, Fire Rescue Chief Mike Booker said Monday. A furnace technician was called to work on a furnace malfunction at the residence and when he finished he noticed signs of CO poisoning in the people there and called […]