WAYNE — Cary Library’s 7th Annual 5K Walk/Run/Race is set for Aug. 4. The race starts at 9 a.m. at the Wayne Elementary School, 48 Pond Road. Registration begins at 8:15. The race course is primarily flat and fast, with one good hill. There will be an official timer, and prizes for the top finishers. […]
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Civil War veteran to receive headstone
WAYNE — A gravestone for Civil War veteran Benjamin F. Burgess will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, at Beech Hill Cemetery on Strickland Ferry Road off Route 219. The public is invited to attend. The stone, which comes 116 years after Burgess died in 1902, will be placed beside those of his […]
Amy Bass book signings at Wayne library and Norway bookstore
The Cary Memorial Library in Wayne and The Tribune bookstore in Norway will each be hosting Amy Bass, author of “One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together,” for a meet-and-greet and book signing. She will be at The Tribune, 430 Main St., Norway, from 1 to 3 […]
Author to speak on debut novel focused on Saudi women
Kay Hardy Campbell is a scholar on the Middle East, who now lives in Maine WAYNE — Maine author and Middle East specialist Kay Hardy Campbell will be the guest of Wayne’s Cary Library for the Meet-A-Maine-Author Series. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18. Campbell will discuss changes currently facing Saudi women […]
Ann E. Stanfill
CALIFORNIA — Ann Evans Stanfill, 88, of Wayne, passed away peacefully Monday, March 19, while she was visiting in California, with family at her side. Ann was born in 1929 in Short Hills, N.J., and grew up in New York City. She left to go to college at Northwestern University. She graduated from Northwestern with a […]
Simons and Goodwin in concert at Cary Memorial Library
WAYNE — The musical duo Bob Simons and Renee Goodwin will be in concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at Cary Memorial Library. Simons and Goodwin have known each other for more than 40 years, meeting when they were both involved in the great folk music scene of the ’60s. They embraced the acoustic […]
Community sale
WAYNE — The First Saturday at the Williams House, 14 Old Winthrop Road, will include a book sale and boutique breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 3. There will be new donations, including a matching set of 12 crystal wine glasses, 11 flutes and 12 water goblets, and yarn is available at a reasonable price. […]
Sandy River Ramblers in concert in Wayne
WAYNE — On Saturday, Jan. 27, the Sandy River Ramblers will present a concert of bluegrass music, emphasizing original songs about Maine, at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Ladd Center, 26 Gott Road. Doors open at 5 p.m. Homemade soups and desserts will be for sale. Songs from the Ramblers’ 2012 CD, “Cry of […]
Maine strawberry farmers happy with crops
WAYNE (AP) — Strawberry farmers in Maine are expecting a good yield this season. Tom Stevenson, of Stevenson’s Strawberries in Wayne, told the Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/2rDCwCJ ) that snowstorms helped his crops. Stevenson says the snow insulates strawberries from the cold. Farmers elsewhere in the state say winter has helped with timing. David Handley, a […]
Charging lawnmower causes fire that destroys Wayne home
WAYNE (AP) — A lawnmower that exploded as it was being charged is to blame for a fire that destroyed a home in the Maine town of Wayne. Officials say the fire on Friday started in the garage where the homeowners were charging their lawnmower. The fire spread from the garage to the home. The […]