Few poets can match the image-making of Union’s Kate Barnes. Her gift with the image is on full display in this week’s poem. April and then May By Kate Barnes April and then May, violets up in the field, the ewes with their twin lambs; time has decided to turn into spring again after all. […]

PORTLAND ‘Two Maines’ authors will read at St. Lawrence Arts Center Local authors Crash Barry and John McDonald will host a reading of their books at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. The event is titled “Two Maines.” Admission is $10. Barry and McDonald will present an evening […]

Julia Spencer-Fleming’s new novel, “One Was a Soldier,” is the best kind of mystery — because it’s not just a mystery. It’s a richly textured story about the lives of several key, interconnected characters. Some of the interconnections are quickly made obvious. But it is what’s beneath the surface — often in the troubled psyches […]

FREEPORT — Tom Crotty is the owner of the Frost Gully Gallery in Freeport. Founded in 1966, it’s the oldest commercial gallery in Maine and shows several artists of note, including 93-year-old Dahlov Ipcar. Crotty is also a talented landscape painter who had a solo exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art in 2003. On […]

OGUNQUIT — The summer theater season opens with the Tony-winning hit “Avenue Q” at Ogunquit Playhouse. The parody that asks the question, “What do you do with a B.A. in English?” is on stage May 25 to June 18. “Avenue Q” won three Tony Awards in 2004 for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book […]

Wednesday was a night to celebrate Junior Achievement and its mission and the new inductees to the Maine Business Hall of Fame.