Award-winning journalist and mystery writer Gerry Boyle will will discuss his fascination with murder and mayhem in Maine and the reasons why he thinks the state is the perfect stage for crime fiction at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at the Bailey Public Library in Winthrop. Having just released the 13th book in his […]
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UMF spotlights award-winning author Emerson Whitney in Visiting Writer Series
Memoirist and poet Emerson Whitney joins the Visiting Writers Series as the second reader of the 2023/24 season at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by […]
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Bowdoin International Music Festival launches series with Ying Quartet
A three-concert series presented by the Bowdoin International Music Festival will feature performances by the Ying Quartet at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 23, Feb. 12, and April 29, at Nomad Pizza in Brunswick. The series follows two popular events at Nomad Pizza during last year’s Bowdoin International Music Festival. “Our continued partnership with Nomad […]
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Yard Sauce trio to perform benefit concert at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
A Shaker Meeting Room series benefit concert featuring Jeff Christmas, Chris Moore, and Mitch Reed – also known as Yard Sauce – an acoustic, folk, and Americana Maine-based trio, will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20, at the Brick Dwelling House at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester. Their live concerts […]
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Sports Digest: Dates, opponents set for Cooper Flagg basketball games in Maine
Cooper Flagg, and his twin brother Ace, will play two games in Portland on Jan. 5-6 with their prep team, Montverde Academy.
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‘The Met: Live’ returns to screen at Fryeburg Academy
“The Met: Live in HD,” the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, begins its 17th season with a live transmission of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, a Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove, starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, […]
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Lewiston library to host Halloween children’s program Oct. 25
LEWISTON — A Halloween science extravaganza with Mad Science is set for 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25 in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon St. Those who attend can start off with decorating a trick-or-treat bag and visiting each service desk for a treat. There will be other Halloween activities and a […]
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‘Paint Night’ offers a great girls’ night out at The Public Theatre
The world premiere of “Paint Night,” a hilarious and heartbreaking new play that will speak to women of all ages, will be presented from Oct. 20-29 at The Public Theatre in Lewiston. Audiences will have a chance to meet playwright Carey Crim and share their thoughts about the play during a free post-show discussion following […]
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Farmington Historical Society cleans gravestones over summer
Members of the Farmington History Society met once a month in the Riverside Cemetery to help clean and collect data on the gravestones in the first row by the road.
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Terence Davies, filmmaker of the lyrical ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives,’ dies at the age of 77
The British filmmaker’s best-known movies were inspired by his childhood in postwar Liverpool.