Prepare your funny bone for a night of laughs at Smitty’s Cinema in Topsham.
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From the Chocolate Church: Blues band performance to raise funds for CCAC
Another band, Road Waves, was scheduled to take part in the show but has had to postpone its appearance until Oct. 4.
Bowdoin College holds first graduation ceremony under new president
The senior class, started high school under a global pandemic, celebrated its commencement ceremony on May 25.
River Arts in Damariscotta opens new show celebrating beauty of Maine
A solo art show by Mark Malinowski titled “Maine Moments” opens in the River Room at River Arts in Damariscotta Thursday and runs through June 19. The show features Malinowski’s latest works celebrating Maine’s special places and the beauty, light, color and the wonder of living here. An opening reception with wine and a charcuterie […]
Grammy-winning banjoist to perform at the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor
One of the most multifaceted minds in roots music, Alison Brown is a Grammy-winning musician, Grammy-nominated producer and co-founder of the renowned Compass Records Group. Brown will take the stage at the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor with her band on June 7 for a show that will make the audience believe in the sound […]
Cooking at the Cove: Summer salad and a refreshing smoothie
This salad is my new obsession. I’m not exaggerating when I say I could eat it every day. Packed in a mason jar, it’s my favorite take-along lunch when I’m going to be away from home midday. (I bring along a big soup spoon — my preferred eating utensil for this.) Here you have the […]
Brunswick man charged with drug trafficking
Police arrested and charged Travis Storer with drug trafficking after they executed a search warrant last week.
Dick Polman: Sam Alito bets his flag gets flushed down the memory hole
MAGA troll Sam Alito, having signaled his solidarity with Donald Trump’s insurrectionists by flying (or allowing to have flown) an upside-down American flag at his home, is disgracing the U.S. Supreme Court with his mere presence. That sentence barely scratches the surface. I need to elaborate. As the southern writer Flannery O’Connor said long ago, […]
Elwood Watson: A troll in Congress
To state the 118th Congress is an exercise in debasement, dereliction, and dysfunction would be an understatement. But what happened on the House Oversight Committee last week took things to a new low. House Republicans were advocating for holding Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt of Congress — an action the committee chairman, Rep. […]
Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Perfection on the Machias River
I started paddling multiday expeditions on the Machias River 45 years ago. In my opinion, it’s the finest river trip in Maine, arguably the eastern United States. About 20 years ago, I began organizing spring Penobscot Paddle & Chowder Society trips on the Machias. I schedule them for late April or early May because my […]