MONDAY, Oct. 13 Columbus Day, schools, libraries, government closed. TUESDAY, Oct. 14 LEWISTON — Lewiston School Department Redistricting Committee holding meeting at Martel Elementary School to hear parent feedback on redistricting students when the upcoming new school is built, 6:30 p.m., Martel Elementary School. LEWISTON — Groundbreaking of new Kennedy Park Bandstand, 10:30 a.m., Kennedy Park. AUBURN […]
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Bates grad re-energizing classical music
LEWISTON — Classical music can include new music, new arrangements and feature instruments never imagined by composers with powdered wigs and buckles on their shoes. Without a jolt in classical music’s presentation, its audiences will soon be gone, conductor Andrew Cyr told attendees at a Great Falls Forum lecture Thursday at the Lewiston Public Library. […]
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Special forum to feature ‘Metropolis Ensemble’ conductor Thursday
LEWISTON — A special session of the Great Falls Forum will take place at noon Thursday, Oct. 2, featuring Andrew Cyr, conductor of Metropolis Ensemble orchestra. His talk is titled “Renewing the Source: a New Model for Classical Music.” The one-hour lecture will be in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon St. […]
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Prosecutor presents ‘How to Raise a Dangerous Criminal’
LEWISTON — A federal prosecutor believes Maine’s legal system should shrink parents’ rights to their children, forcing mothers and fathers to prove their fitness. Margaret McGaughey’s reasoning is that too many children grow up abused, blinded by poor role models and cared for by parents who might be indifferent to their most basic needs. “What […]
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Federal prosecutor to address Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — The Great Falls Forum on Friday will feature Margaret McGaughey, appellate chief, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine, speaking on “How to Raise a Dangerous Criminal.” The lecture will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. McGaughey has served as […]
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Teaching adults English exciting, challenging, instructors say
LEWISTON — Audience members at the Great Falls Forum got a lesson Friday in the challenges and satisfactions of teaching English to adults who speak other languages. With paper and pencils at each table of the Lewiston Public Library’s Callahan Hall, about three dozen attendees attempted to copy the swirls of a phrase written in […]
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Great Falls Forum to feature ESOL teachers Kemper, Walworth
LEWISTON — This month’s Great Falls Forum, taking place on Friday, May 16, will feature Anne Kemper, coordinator of Lewiston’s Adult Learning Center, and Joyce Walworth, ESOL instructor with Portland Adult Education. They will present a talk titled, “The Changing Face of Maine: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in Lewiston and Portland.” This […]
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Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair speaks at the Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — An attentive and appreciative audience heard Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair speak on “The Words I Chose” at the Great Falls Forum on Friday in the Lewiston Public Library. McNair told of family struggles from early years without a father and recent years when his mother passed away. Throughout his talk, he suggested […]
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Poet laureate to speak at Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair will present “The Words I Choose” at the Great Falls Forum on Friday. The program will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon St. In March 2011, McNair was named Maine’s fourth poet laureate, adding yet another in […]
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Drawing skilled creatives to Maine topic of Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — “We are not in Maine because we want the perfect job; we are here to create the perfect life.” That’s what a Great Falls Forum audience heard Friday noon in a presentation by Jennifer Hutchins, executive director of Creative Portland. In a talk titled “Art and the Human Ecosystem,” she explained how that […]