BRUNSWICK The Rotary Club of Brunswick is searching for local talent for the fifth annual “Midcoast Maine’s Got Talent!” The program will be held on April 8 at 7 p.m. at the Crooker Theatre in Brunswick. All ages and all types of talent are welcome to apply with no entry fee. Cash prizes will be […]
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Open mic night at Savory Maine March 9
DAMARISCOTTA Savory Maine Dining and Provisions, 11 Water St., Damariscotta, will host its monthly open mic on March 9 from 6:15-8:30 p.m. In case of snow, open mic will move a week to March 16 at the same times. Savory Maine open mics are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Doors will open […]
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Oratorio Chorale in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK The Oratorio Chorale winter 2016 concert, “Dvorák Mass in D,” featuring organist Ray Cornils, will take place in two Brunswick performances on Sunday. The program will also include “Bright Mass with Canons” by contemporary composer Nico Muhly, whose work includes commissions from Carnegie Hall, the Tallis Scholars, and the Metropolitan Opera. Both works were […]
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‘A Trilogy of Art’ on view in Topsham
TOPSHAM This month’s exhibit in the Crooker Gallery, Highlands Room and main library at Topsham Public Library is a trilogy of art. The show features works by rug maker Sue Perless, fiber artist Catherine Worthington and potter Harold Roberts. The show will run through March 29. Additionally, the annual juried photography show “Joy of the […]
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Midcoast high school students compete in Poetry Out Loud
AUGUSTA The Maine Arts Commission is presenting the 2016 Maine State Finals for Poetry Out Loud, a National Poetry Recitation Contest, on March 15 at 3 p.m. at the Waterville Opera House. The competition, presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, is free and open to the public. […]
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Bowdoin College Museum of Art events in March
BRUNSWICK The following events take place at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art throughout the month of March. • Lecture: Sebastian Smee: “Manet Slash Degas: Friendship, Rivalry, and Marriage in Ninteenth- Century Paris” March 4, 4:30-6 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. Sebastian Smee will speak about friendships between artists, the theme of his current […]
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Where Are The Uniters?
You’ll forgive us if we seem jaded in advance of this weekend’s Democratic and Republican caucuses. According to the Associated Press, Maine “typically has had little influence in the presidential primary because of its small population and late position in the primary calendar.” In other words, we’re a bit of an afterthought. When Maine Democrats […]
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Texas US Sen. Ted Cruz Ted Cruz wins Maine’s GOP caucuses
LEWISTON Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz won nearly 46 percent of the vote to beat New York businessman Donald Trump in Republican caucuses in Maine, where strong turnout and consolidated voting locations contributed to overflow crowds on Saturday. Cruz finished with 8,550 votes to Trump’s 6,070, followed by 2,270 for Ohio Gov. John Kasich and […]
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan dies at 94 in California
Nancy Reagan, the helpmate, backstage adviser and fierce protector of Ronald Reagan in his journey from actor to president — and finally during his 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease — has died. She was 94. The former first lady died Sunday at her home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles of congestive heart failure, […]
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Lawsuit against DHHS over Lyman daycare allowed to progress
AUGUSTA — A bill that would allow a civil complaint filed against the Department of Health and Human Services by several York County families over abuses at Sunshine Child Care and Preschool in Lyman earned initial approval to move forward Thursday in the Maine House of Representatives. The 80-62 vote was largely along party lines, […]