ALNA — The Historic Head Tide Church will celebrate its 175th year with a benefit concert by the Moose Mountain Jazz Band, a seven-piece band specializing in Dixieland. Moose Mountain Jazz Band is Lance Maclean on banjo, guitar, vocals; Bob Pillsbury on clarinet, sax, vocals; Bob Modr on cornet, vocals; Wayne Mogel on trombone; David […]

TOPSHAM — Monica Wood, acclaimed Maine author of “When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine”, “Any Bitter Thing” and “Ernie’s Ark” will visit Topsham Public Library for a talk and book signing Sept. 4. Monica was born in Mexico, Maine, where her father was an employee of the Oxford paper mill during […]

BRUNSWICK Is the Brunswick area Hollywood on the Androscoggin? Not quite, but a burgeoning cast of young filmmakers is making a coastal Maine version of it. Over the summer, film projects were filmed in the Mid-coast region by three young artists who hoped to parlay local knowledge and technical training into films incorporating Maine themes […]

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The agreement calls for annual fixed payments to the town of $15.2 million, plus nearly $3 million upfront.

After two failures, Baxter Academy passes its third inspection, meaning it will open with 135 students next week.

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NEW YORK For much of the nine years that Shane Salerno worked on his J.D. Salinger documentary and book, the project was a mystery worthy of the author himself. Code names. Hidden identities. Surveillance cameras. Until 2010, when “The Catcher In the Rye” novelist died at age 91, only a handful of people were fully […]

BOOTHBAY — A charming love story, delightful comedy and memorable music will bring The Boothbay Playhouse’s 2013 season to a close with the world’s longest-running musical, ”The Fantasticks.” It is a timeless tale — full of magic and moonlight — of a young boy and girl who fall madly in love but soon grow restless […]