A fundraiser Wednesday for the March of Dimes raises close to $30,000.

When I first learned June Fitzpatrick would dedicate the entire year at both of her galleries to drawing, I wondered if that wouldn’t drain the well. But her shows have only gotten stronger throughout the year. “Drawing the Line #8” is a great show featuring seven excellent artists, most of whom have footing both in […]

…and on and on: A new book tells the story of the longest baseball game, who played and who stayed to see the PawSox and the Rochester Red Wings duke it out over 33 innings.

“Summer Friends” marks the ninth novel from warmly regarded Portland writer Holly Chamberlin, and, as you might expect, the experience shows. This time, Chamberlin gives us more than a seasonal story of Maine’s beautiful southern coast. “Summer Friends” tells an insightful story about people and the different social environments in which they choose to spend […]

Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. “Diversity,” multi-artist show featuring blown glass, acrylic, oil and encaustic paintings, ceramics and pottery, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. 712-1097. Through Oct. 30. “The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States,” drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints, […]

BRUNSWICK — The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra begins its 2011-2012 Topsham season at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 23 at Orion Performing Arts Center at Mount Ararat Middle School. Music Director Rohan Smith leads the orchestra. The program is designed to provoke passion, laughter and melancholy with Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” […]

Town residents watched with interest as the Inn at Brunswick Station, a 52-room hotel, went up last spring directly across from the historic and prominent First Parish Church and just steps from the Bowdoin College campus. How could the edifice possibly fit into the small lot at this major intersection where a senior center stood? […]

A York Hospital breast cancer program benefits from a party with many parts.