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Camden Opera House’s SoundCheck series of audience-free livestreams continues Friday, Jan. 29, with a 7:30 p.m. concert by the Wayne DeLano Duo. The SoundCheck show will be streamed from the opera…
Somehow we got through 2020, though it wasn't easy ... and now on to better things in 2021. We hope everyone gets a vaccination soon, and we can get well on our way to opening as soon as it's safe…
Two local Maine authors met at a local pub, King Eiders in Damariscotta, to exchange their newest publications.
Laurie Apgar Chandler, from Newcastle, just published her second book “…
Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Days Festival – what’s not to love? Visiting schooners, schooner tours, fireworks, boat and street parades, Blessing of the Fleet, music, games and activities for…
Maine Art Gallery Wiscasset
As we work our way through a new year, gallery owners and boards, event planners, store owners, lodging and attraction businesses are all taking the 2021 season one day at a time. The Maine Art…
On Jan. 14, 2021, at the annual meeting of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), the organization kicked off a year-long celebration of MOFGA’s 50th anniversary by unveiling…
The Camden Conference, Penobscot Marine Museum, and the Belfast Free Library will present Charles Lagerbom speaking on “Maine Whaling: To the Arctic and Beyond.” This event takes place on Thursday…
Y Arts has done it again! Twenty-five of our local youth worked together to create a competition piece for this year's Junior Theater Festival and received high honors winning the award for…
Reliving Wiscasset’s past
Let us travel back in time to before Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, television and radio. We’ll stop the clock 200 years ago at 1820. If you lived then, you got your news by word-of-mouth and from…
New York City-based Food Insider, a lifestyle publication from Business Insider, has included Wiscasset’s famous food stand Red’s Eats in the video, “The Most Iconic Restaurant In…
Meanwhile ... back in the studio
When I gave Sawyer’s Island-based artist John Butke a call this week, he and his wife Jill, an accomplished weaver, were enjoying a bit of down time. Yet, even while enjoying a respite, there is…
The Maine Photography Show (MPS), deadline for submissions is drawing near ... like next Friday, Jan. 22.
And the categories are ... Black and White, Color, Student, and the Special…
It’s a new year, one that will, hopefully, mark the return of the events in and around the region this summer. This is the time to get your calendar listings ready…
This January’s winter tale at Oak Point Farm is truly one to stir the imagination of every child, no matter how old.
In Kate Messner’s story, “Over and Under the Snow,” winter is explored…
Harbor Theater
Oscar season is here, although the Academy Awards ceremony has been pushed up to April 25. This time of year most of the top contenders are being shown at Harbor Theater, so we plan to recommend…
Projected opening date: Jan. 16
DAMARISCOTTA—Faced with the food limitations necessary for their own family, a baker and her husband have decided to open a completely gluten-free bakery and cafe at 77 Main Street in downtown in…
The Camden Conference and Camden Public Library present Judith Bing and J. Brooke Harrington on Zoom on Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 6:30 p.m. Their talk, “Arctic Architecture,” is open to all. Please…
The Strand Theatre continues to present new release films to stream from their website. Three of the films available throughout January are “The Weasel’s Tale,” “The Reason I Jump,” and “Kill It…
Jason Thurston is a Northport artist, using his drawing skills to draw Midcoast scenery on shells.
The idea to create art on shells came a few years ago when Thurston’s wife, Hana, was in…
The Waldo Theater
The Waldo Theatre’s next virtual concert is a multimedia performance from Halcyon & Friends: “A Winter Celebration,” streamed live from The Waldo stage Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m.
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Heartwood welcomes 2021 with new programming, small group educational workshops for students of all ages.
“Utilizing our easily accessible studio space, we’re offering six winter…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
It was one sold out event after another at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor in 2020 – mind you, last year an audience of 50 equaled a sell out show. It was the year of a pandemic most of us had…
The Camden Conference and Rockland Public Library present Dr. Madison Smith, Thursday, Jan. 7, at 6:30 p.m., on Zoom. This event is free and open to all. Please email pking@rocklandmaine.gov for a…
The Maine Photography Show (MPS), has been the annual premier juried gallery show of photography in Maine for 16 years. Deadline for submissions is at the stroke of midnight on Friday, Jan. 22.…
Local author Marilyn Beardsley Heise recently launched retail sales of her newly published book “Perilous Pills, Protecting Yourself from Fluoroquinolone Injury” at Sherman’s stores in Boothbay…
Now that the holiday rush is behind, there is time to settle in and enjoy Heartwood Theater’s free online event, celebrating the arts, winter and the Christmas Season, with 30 performers from both…
New dreams, new hopes, new experiences and new joys come with the dawning of the new year as musicians, songwriters, storytellers and a bit of fundraising converge from the safety of our homes at…
Sarah Sherman is well-known for her commitment to preserving the experiences of veterans. She wrote “Southport: The War Years, An Island Remembers” in 1996, “Heroes Among Us: A History of Boothbay…
Maine State Music Theatre has elected one new member to their board of trustees. Cherie Scott of Boothbay is eligible to serve on the Board of Trustees for two three-year terms.
Scott was…
Author Kathleen Collins, daughter of Jim Collins of Wiscasset and Judy deGraw of Boothbay, has written her third book, “From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole, A Life with Television.” The book is a…
Artists from Mobius’ Creative Opportunities program opened an exhibit at the CLC YMCA at 525 Main St., in Damariscotta, on Oct. 15. The “Art From The Heart II” has extended the run until Jan. 15…
Damariscotta’s historic Lincoln Theater is preparing for a change in leadership. At their most recent board meeting, the Lincoln Theater Board of Directors voted to approve an executive…
This holiday season may have lights, lots and lots of them, twinkling and sparkling in Woolwich. Voting will soon begin to decide which resident did the best job decorating their home for the Yule…
“Thank you for doing this.”
“Thank you for being a highlight of the holiday season.”
"This is my kids’ favorite event and they were worried that it…
Salt Bay Chamberfest
While the pandemic meant the cancellation of Salt Bay Chamberfest’s 2020 summer season, the wonderful music for which the organization is known could not be silenced. Four videos that pair solo…
Heartwood Theater presents a free online event, celebrating the arts, winter and Christmas, with 30 performers from both near and far. No tickets, no fees, no registration. Simply click “A…
The book world rarely sees a new book with such an unusual history as “Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith,” published by Down East Books…
Weeks into Wiscasset Lights of Hope, the response has been great, Wiscasset schools’ athletic director and Wiscasset Middle High School Assistant Principal Warren Cossette said.
“The…
Watercolorist Kathleen Horst, Damariscotta, has a new credit to add to her list of accomplishments: “As seen on HGTV”! Horst was approached this past summer to paint a portrait of a newly…
Love art but you are short on cash? At Boothbay Region Art Foundation, the Art in the Square Show and Sale has just kicked off its 16th year. All canvases are 12” x 12” and just $125 a square!…
Join us at Damariscotta River Grill for a week of dinner specials the week of Dec. 15-19 to celebrate art and the holidays. The Pemaquid Group of Artists new show will be on display just in time…
In light of what is currently happening locally with the coronavirus, Lincoln Theater has decided to remain closed longer than we had hoped.
We will not reopen on New…
The Friends of Westport Island History is excited to announce the inaugural series of Westport Island notecards based on local paintings just in time for holiday giving. The images are of selected…
Into these darkest days of the year, Heartwood Theater and many performers are about to shine some light, presenting a warm evening of poetry, music and short stories, available online at …
On Nov. 14, eight voice students from the voice studio of Beth Preston participated in the Maine NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Musical Theater Auditions.
In the…
Join the DaPonte String Quartet for Happy Hour Fridays! Every Friday at 5 p.m. the Quartet gather together (virtually) to chat about music, listen to each other’s plans, or discuss upcoming events…
Maine Chapter of NATS
On Saturday, Nov. 21, the Maine Chapter of NATS - the National Association of Teachers of Singing - concluded its annual Musical Theater Festival.
Traditionally held…
There is a Christmas display in Edgecomb which would even make the Grinch’s heart grow three times its size. The Fuller family has erected a “Whoville village” display at their River Road home…
Bay Chamber Concerts, in partnership with Down East Singers, will premiere a free virtual concert on Sunday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. conducted by Anthony Antolini, featuring members of Down East Singers…
