WISCASSET Sheepscot Valley Chorus is inviting interested singers to sing with them as they begin rehearsals for their spring semester on Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Wiscasset. The Chorus will be preparing music of English composer Benjamin Britten, including “Te Deum in C” and “Rejoice in the Lamb.” The […]

ROCKLAND On Jan. 21 at 6 p.m., the Rockland Public Library will host a talk with Camden author Nancy Harmon Jenkins. For the better part of the last half century, Jenkins has made a second home in Italy — living, working, gardening, cooking and eating while also raising two children and writing steadily about her […]

BATH The Kill the Chill winter concert series continues in the annex of the Chocolate Church Arts Center with Steve Watt performing Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Steve Watt is a guitarist and singer/songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland. The show starts with acoustic guitar music, featuring the songs of Robert Burns and other traditional Scottish songs alongside […]

HALLOWELL The Harlow Gallery, located at 160 Water St. in Hallowell, is hosting its Supply Rummage Sale on Jan. 15-16 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Donated new and used items will be sold. Proceeds will benefit programming during 2016 at the Gallery. Examples of items available at the sale include: canvases, panels, […]

FREEPORT Freeport Players invites the community to don a hat and join their annual potluck party and short annual business meeting Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at Freeport Library, 10 Library Drive. At the event, prizes will be given for notable hats. Attendees may bring food or non-alcoholic drinks to share; the Players will supply […]

TOPSHAM “Thoughts on Making: The Pursuit of Art,” a presentation by Museum Technician Robert Colburn of the Farnsworth Art Museum, will take place Jan. 21 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. for First Light Camera Club at the Topsham Medical Building, 4 Horton Place, Topsham. Members of the public are invited to attend; the event is free for […]

WISCASSET On Friday former WCSH6 Weatherman Kevin Mannix will talk about his recently released book, “Weathering Shame,” coauthored with his social worker wife, Linda Rota. His talk will begin at 3:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase and signing by Mannix. “Weathering Shame” is a joint autobiography about Mannix and Rota’s individual experiences with […]

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 […]

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 […]