WEEK OF SUN, SEPT. 6 ARIES Mar. 21 – Apr. 20 Aries, you are ready to move in new and unexpected directions. Your boss or supervisor may appreciate any new ideas you have and your willingness to try new things. TAURUS Apr. 21 – May 21 Many fun things are expected to unfold this week, […]

ROCKLAND Author Jim Krosschell will be at the Rockland Public Library at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, for a talk about his book “Owls Head Revisited” and a book signing. Along the coast of Maine, fame and fortune abound — but the town of Owls Head has little of either. Its people occupy a peninsula […]

DEAR ABBY: I am a 63- year-old man living with a 28-year-old woman. She has three children — ages 2, 6 and 7. They live with us every other weekend. I have fallen in love with them. We are planning on getting married soon, and I want to be sure the kids are secure when […]

WISCASSET The Sheepscot Valley Chorus continues their 35th Season celebration with Vivaldi’s “ Gloria.” “ Gloria” will be performed with professional soloists and instrumentalists. For two centuries after Vivaldi’s death, the “Gloria” lay undiscovered until the late 1920s, when it was found buried among a pile of forgotten Vivaldi manuscripts. It was not performed until […]

BATH The Mustard Seed Bookstore, at 74 Front St. in Bath, has announced its Author Events for September. Books will be available for purchase and signing at each event. Food blogger and author Elissa Altman will begin the month from 7- 8:30 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 10. Her new book is titled “Poor Man’s Feast: A […]

NEW HARBOR “New Beginnings,” the theme of a show opening Friday at Saltwater Gallery, represents different steps in the lives of each of the five artists whose work will be featured. The cooperative gallery, located at 3056 Bristol Road in New Harbor, invites the public to visit its seven rooms of painting, photography and fine […]

DAMARISCOTTA Damariscotta artist Will Kefauver will exhibit his paintings at Savory Maine Dining and Provisions from Sept. 8 through Oct.19. Will Kefauver, of the Kefauver Studio and Gallery, is an award-winning oil painter specializing in landscapes. He returned to painting after many years in the publishing industry as an illustrator, graphic designer, art director and […]

Artist Tom Curry is right at home in the tiny village of Brooklin on the remote Blue Hill peninsula. With degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale and long stretches in both Hawaii and Boston behind him, Curry is now most content painting the islands and peninsulas of Down East Maine. The […]

East Boothbay artist Andrea Peters’ world is outside her windows — salty inlets, mossy ledges, towering spruces and abundant flower and vegetable gardens — a quintessentially Maine landscape. Perhaps the late arts writer Phil Isaacson, an admirer of Peters’ work, said it best: “Peters’ Maine coast wriggles with color. Hues pile up in layers and […]