MECHANIC FALLS — The Pine Tree State Country Music Association will hold the 2020 annual competition on Sunday, April 5, at the Silver Spur. There are categories with several age divisions for bands, vocalists, vocal groups, duets, solo artists, gospel and bluegrass vocalists and instrumentalists. The deadline for registration is Thursday, March 20. There will […]
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Country music award show at the Silver Spur
MECHANIC FALLS — Down East Country Music Association, Inc. presents the 38th annual Award Show Sunday, Aug. 26, starting at noon at the Silver Spur, Route 11. The day of music and awards will also have a 50/50, raffles and food concessions. Support local artists and see the people who qualify to go to Tennessee […]
Oxford Hills Chamber renames award to honor Suzanne Grover
After 41 years of presenting the Community Service Award to local residents, the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce is renaming the award in honor of Suzanne Grover, who passed away in January. John Williams, executive director of the chamber and a friend of the Grover family, said that Suzanne and her husband Rupert received the […]
Buckfield’s Zack Grover goes for the alley-oop in Austria
BUCKFIELD — Organizers of this week’s fundraiser to help send a local basketball player overseas to further realize his sports dreams hope it’s a slam-dunk. Fifteen-year-old Zack Grover of Buckfield is a sophomore at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School and was one of 15 players chosen from across the United States for the Student Athlete United World […]
Keith Sawyer
AUBURN — Keith Sawyer passed away at the Hospice House in Auburn Sunday, Sept. 13, at the age of 82. He was born in Lewiston, the son of Charles and Marion Rollins Sawyer. He grew up in West Minot and graduated from Edward Little High School in 1951. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and […]