LEWISTON — The University of Southern Maine Franco-American Collection will host a talk about poet, translator and editor A. Poulin Jr. on Sept. 18. It will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in Room 170 at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College, 51 Westminster St. George Blouin, Mary Rice-DeFossee and Denis Ledoux will be […]
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Author Monica Woods to give talk at Cumston Public Library
Cumston Public Library in Monmouth invites the public to a talk by Maine author, Monica Woods, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12. Woods is a novelist, memoirist and playwright. Her most recent novel, “The One-in-a-Million Boy,” has been published in 20 foreign editions and won a 2017 Nautilus Award (Gold) and the New England Society […]
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Trinity Jubilee Center director to address L-A Rotary
AUBURN — Erin Reed, executive director of the Trinity Jubilee Center in Lewiston, will address the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Club on Thursday, July 19. The club will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Village Inn, 165 High St. Reed has been involved in the Jubilee Center since 2004. She also serves as the Center’s […]
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Farmington Grange lecture series returns
FARMINGTON — Farmington Grange’s lecture series on the rural arts returns at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 21, with a talk by local herbalist Janet Edwards. Her topic is “Gathering Wild Plants — All Season.” Edwards, or “Mountain Mama of Maine,” has spoken at the grange on lavender and on making herbal cosmetics. For more than […]
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Mark LaFlamme: International House of What, now?
Where the wild things are So at the suggestion of many of you yahoos, I went out the other day in search of the mighty multi-colored zebra that was being painted on the side of a downtown Lewiston parking garage. Unfortunately, when I started this safari, I didn’t bother to ask for a location. You […]
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Childhood education talk at CMCC
Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce talks about the importance of early care and education for children at the first Early Childhood Education Highlights Celebration held recently in the new Education Lab at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. Joyce and other Maine police chiefs and prosecutors are involved with the national Fight Crime – Invest in Kids […]
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Historical society hosts talk on WWII infantry unit
MECHANIC FALLS — The Mechanic Falls Historical Society recently hosted a talk by Capt. Jonathan D. Bratten, command historian for the Maine Army National Guard. He spoke on the 103rd Infantry Regiment and the unit’s involvement during World War II, particularly on the Pacific front. Bratten said many members of the regiment who began training […]
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MacMahons to discuss New Zealand in Food For Thought
LEWISTON — USM-LAC Senior College will host Mary and David MacMahon speaking on New Zealand at the Food For Thought luncheon on Friday, April 13. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m. and the talk will begin at noon. In the last five years, the MacMahons have spent 30 weeks in New Zealand. Recently returned, they will […]
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Lewiston youth campaign: Treat All Listeners Kindly
LEWISTON — From President Donald Trump’s lashing out, to Facebook “friends” fighting online, there’s too much meanness, name-calling and nasty attacks, Lewiston students said Tuesday. Hoping to tone it down in their community, the Lewiston Youth Advisory Council unveiled a public campaign called TALK, which stands for Treat All Listeners Kindly. After observing too many […]
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Lewiston youth campaign: Treat All Listeners Kindly
LEWISTON — From President Donald Trump’s lashing out, to Facebook “friends” fighting online, there’s too much meanness, name-calling and nasty attacks, Lewiston students said Tuesday. Hoping to tone it down in their community, the Lewiston Youth Advisory Council unveiled a public campaign called TALK, which stands for Treat All Listeners Kindly. After observing too many […]