A festival Saturday at the nonprofit center will support the fundraising drive to rebuild a barn that was lost to fire.
Deborah Sayer
Biddeford neighborhood set to sizzle
The annual festival remains focused on community.
Professional puppeteer pairs puppets, prose
Nicola McEldowney returns to her home turf in Kennebunk with a show and a kids’ workshop.
Drifters make special appearance
Yvonne Gretta stood trembling on her front porch, clutching an original 45 record of The Drifters’ 1960 hit “Save the Last Dance For Me” that she’d purchased as a teenager. The ink on the just-autographed record was barely dry as the members of the legendary R&B group, founded in the 1950s, pulled away from Gretta’s […]
Library garden event finally set to blossom
Gardening enthusiasts are invited to tour 11 private gardens in Raymond on Saturday and to talk with garden designers about their creative processes in cultivating those spaces. It’s all part of the premiere Raymond Garden Tour, a self-guided outing being held to raise money benefiting the Raymond Village Library’s general operating fund. Elissa Gifford, a […]
Shakers’ history alive and well
Two men work diligently to bring awareness of the Sabbathday Lake village, founded in 1783, to new generations of people.
Norlands overnight immerses visitors in 1800s
The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore has a solution for those seeking respite from our fast-paced digital age. Norlands is accepting applications for a 24-hour Live-In Experience on April 26 and 27. The immersion program is designed to transport participants to a 19th-century farm setting, where texting and Twitter are temporarily shut out in […]
For fitness, kids get in on the ground floor
Tumble Tikes was born in 2009 when a married couple of personal trainers found opportunities for kids lacking.
Church ‘doing for others’ to honor civil rights icon
The First Parish Congregational Church, UCC of Saco began its first Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event in 2009 in response to a question posed more than four decades ago by the late civil rights leader: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’ “ For the fifth […]
Donkey delivers a Christmas ‘miracle’
Despite her negative pregnancy test, an abused animal gives birth at a Bridgton shelter.