Franklin Savings Bank’s Community Development Foundation has this year awarded $51,000 in college scholarships to 21 students from 11 local high schools and four technical centers. Recipients benefited from scholarships ranging from $1,500 to $3,000. Scholarships awarded to the area high-schools have been specially designated for students with an inclination towards business-related programs, covering areas […]
2023
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Lakewood Theater to stage ‘Anatomies’
“Anatomies” will be staged Aug. 31 through Sept. 9 at Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road in Madison. Performances are set for 8 p.m. Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 and 7-9, 4 p.m. Sept. 3, and 2 p.m. Sept. 6. In haunted Edinburgh, in the 1820s, Dr. Robert Knox, of Surgeons Square, needs fresh corpses to […]
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Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ to be staged in Waterville
Agatha Christi’s “Murder on the Orient Express” will be staged Sept. 1-10 at Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. in Waterville. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1, 2, 8 and 9 and 2 p.m. Sept. 3 and 10. The production is adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig, presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals […]
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Ugly History of Beautiful Things’ and ‘Just East of Nowhere’
Essays on desire and consumption by Katy Kelleher, and a complex and provocative story by Scot Lehigh
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On the Market: Maine homes listed at $380,000
Low inventory has kept Maine home prices high between May and July.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Is it any wonder white nationalist extremism is on the rise?
High-profile incitement of racist resentment, going back years, paved the way to this troubling political climate.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Tom Waddell: Political agendas take aim at LGBTQ Americans
There is nothing wrong with being transgender. It is nefarious, bigoted religious and political agendas that cause the problems transgender people experience. Transgender and cisgender people (a person whose gender identity matches their sex given at birth) are the gender they identify as. Gender identity and sex are not the same. Sex is what you […]