BRUNSWICK Thornton Oaks Retirement Community presents Just Pastels, an exhibit of pastel works including portraits, landscapes and seascapes by Mary Waters Jacobs. The exhibit opening is Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. Jacobs will talk about her work and respond to questions. Jacobs currently lives at Thornton Oaks and specializes in pastel portraiture. She has studied […]

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BATH Local author Greg Latimer will join the Lighthouse Legends and Lore Cruise scheduled for Sept. 30 hosted by Maine Maritime Museum and conducted by Red Cloak Haunted History Tours. Latimer is the author of two books featuring area haunts, “Ghosts of the Boothbay Region” and “Haunted Damariscotta.” The books include chapters on a number […]

FREEPORT The Freeport Fall Festival, now in its 18th year, attracts thousands of people to Freeport for a day of art, music and fun. This year the festival will be held Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. More than 120 artists will exhibit works ranging from photography, oil, watercolor, mixed media, fine […]

BATH An opera for the space-ages opens this weekend at the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath. “One Way Trip to Mars,” written by husband and wife duo Peter Alexander and Johannah Harkness of Phippsburg, combines the story of one man’s epic journey to Mars, and his wife’s desperate attempt to chase after him. “One […]

PHIPPSBURG Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons will perform in concert at the Phippsburg Congregational Church on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The Seattle-based duo blends pre-blues a cappella field hollers, fiddle and banjo breakdowns, and duet distillations of early jazz. In January, they released their second album and were awarded first place at the 26th annual […]

ARIES Mar. 21 – Apr. 20 Aries, you may find yourself on the path to some exciting places if you surround yourself with the right people this week. This is a great time to break out of your comfort zone. TAURUS Apr. 21 – May 21 Taurus, you may be looking for a new adventure […]

WISCASSET Author Ron Chase will discuss his book on the life of Bernard Patterson at 5 p.m. on Sept. 28 at the Wiscasset Public Library, located at 21 High St. Patterson was a Vietnam War veteran who got away with $177,000 in a 1971 bank robbery in his hometown of Mars Hill, Maine. He then […]

HALLOWELL On Friday beginning at 7 p.m., the Harlow Gallery will present “Maine Speaks!” featuring poets Tom Lyford, Susann Pelletier, Kevin Sweeney, Marcia Wall Simmons and blue-grass musician Stan Keach. These five performers will be reading poems and playing music with Maine roots. Lyford hails from Dover-Foxcroft, a 1964 graduate of Foxcroft Academy and a […]

NEWCASTLE On Sept. 26, photographer Dave Higgins will share his artwork, featuring photographs of Midcoast Maine, at The Lincoln Home in Newcastle. The public is invited to view them from 3- 4 p.m. Higgins combines both photography and painting in the computer. His images start with a photograph then he uses digital brushes and various […]