PORTLAND The fourth annual Portland Brew Festival (www.portlandbrewfestival.c om) is set for August 29 and 30, and event organizers promise a broad array of brewers, activities and exhibits and tempting food offerings. The 2014 event, which returns to the Portland Company Complex at 58 Fore Street in Portland, will feature about 40 brewers with more […]

Arts are Elementary is pleased to announce that this Saturday, August 23rd there will be a showing of the musical Robin Hood at Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, at 3 p.m. Directed by Joe Godburn and Paul Lewis of the Missoula Children’s Theater, this show will be the culmination of a week of hard work […]

BATH Patten Free Library is launching a new service for teen readers called “Book Match.” After Labor Day, young adults will be able to create personalized reading lists with the assistance of library staff. The service is free and open to any student in grades seven to twelve residing in the library’s service area or […]

Robert Fuller still considers a 2008 invitation to Oklahoma the biggest honor of his professional career. “That’s when I was inducted into the cowboy Hall of Fame, something I never dreamt would happen,” said Fuller, referring to what is now known as the Hall of Great Western Performers in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage […]

DAMARISCOTTA — Meet author Pat Higgins at 11 a.m. at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta for a fascinating “tour” of the mid-coast area. From the Age of Discovery and the earliest settlement of America, Midcoast Maine has played surprising roles in America’s history. Europeans might not have survived in the New World without […]

YARMOUTH — On September 7, 317 Main Community Music Center presents the 10th Annual Henryfest, outdoors at beautiful Skyline Farm, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth, Maine. This family friendly music festival features music from headliner Tim O’Brien, the internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist. The full schedule includes Don Roy & Friends; Sly-Chi; Joe Walsh, Brittany Haas, & […]

DAMARISCOTTA — Get ready: The bewitchingly talented Katherine Howe, author of NYTimes best seller, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and will be our guest on Friday the 22nd at 7 p.m. She’ll be reading from and discussing her new novel, Conversion. It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy and school is a pressure cooker. […]

WESTPORT — It looks there will be fair weather for the upcoming 10th Annual Westport Island Shore Run 10K Road Race, that will take place on Sunday, August 24, 2014, beginning at 9 a.m. (The “Fun Walk” starts at 8:30a.m.) This is always an exciting race on bridge-accessible Westport Island, on a beautiful USATF-certified course […]

For only three days in August the Friends of the Zorach Fountain, an organization dedicated to preserving and interpreting William Zorach’s Spirit of the Sea, a sculptural fountain in Bath’s City Park, will present a special exhibition of Zorach’s watercolors at the Georgetown Historical Society. Georgetown was a special place for William and Marguerite Zorach […]