HALLOWELL The first Harlow Gallery Second Sunday event of the new year will be Nature Journaling, lead by Andrea Lani on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. at Harlow Gallery, located at 160 Water St. in Hallowell. Spend an afternoon creating a family nature journal. In this workshop, participants will practice observing with all the senses, learn […]
2016
Bath Antiques Show and Sale
BATH The Bath Antiques Show and Sale continues its 27th season at the Bath Middle School in Bath Maine on Sunday. While some folks are heading south for the winter, the Bath show continues on with a wide selection of antiques and collectibles from established dealers from across New England. The show is expected to […]
Portland Fine Craft Show invites artists to apply
PORTLAND The Maine Crafts Association invites members and non members to apply for the second annual Portland Fine Craft Show, to be held rain or shine on Congress Street in downtown Portland on Aug. 27. PFCS 2016 will feature 100 juried exhibitors from the greater New England area. Artists may apply to show in the […]
Natalie Cole, master of past and present styles
LOS ANGELES She began as a 1970s soul singer hyped as the next Aretha Franklin and peaked in the 1990s as an old-fashioned stylist and time-defying duet partner to her late father, Nat “King” Cole. Natalie Cole, who died Thursday in Los Angeles at age 65, was a Grammy winning superstar honored and haunted by […]
Works by Janet Lawrence at Freeport Community Library
FREEPORT During the month of January, local artist Janet Lawrence will have an exhibit of her watercolor and graphite drawings in the main reading room at the Freeport Community Library. As a child, Lawrence began drawing the cartoons she watched on TV and spent a lot of time sketching people and things around her. Originally […]
Maine governor sorry for remark about ‘young white’ girls
AUGUSTA Republican Gov. Paul LePage apologized Friday for his remark about out-of-state drug dealers impregnating “young white” girls, calling it a slip of the tongue and saying he didn’t mean to inject race into discussion of Maine’s heroin epidemic. LePage blamed reporters for unfairly focusing on the slip-up in which he described the drug dealers […]
LePage: Drug dealers impregnate ‘young white’ girls
PORTLAND — Blunt spoken Republican Gov. Paul LePage said out-of-state drug dealers are impregnating “young white” girls, and his remarks were quickly denounced by critics on Thursday as racial fear mongering. LePage, talking about the state’s heroin epidemic, described out-of-state drug dealers as “guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” and said “half the time […]
Woman charged in Wells charity scam
WELLS — A Christmas fundraiser at a local diner has resulted in criminal charges against a New Hampshire woman after it was revealed she fabricated a story about a homeless family battling cancer, authorities say. Jodie St. Pierre, 33, 31-4 Everson Ave., Rochester, New Hampshire, was summonsed for theft by deception on Monday following an […]
McDonough expected to become interim principal at Saco Middle School
SACO — Saco Middle School Assistant Principal Mark McDonough has been given preliminary approval to be interim principal of the school following the December resignation of Principal Laurie Wood. Wood resigned effective Jan. 8, but took the last two days as vacation days, said Saco Superintendent of Schools Dominic DePatsy. DePatsy said Wood left the […]
Springvale man charged in 7-11 robbery
ALFRED — A Springvale man has been indicted in connection with an October robbery of the local 7-11 convenience store. Keith L. Hammonds, 27, was arrested in Belgrade at the home of his mother two days after the Oct. 25 robbery. A York County grand jury handed up a Class A felony robbery indictment earlier […]