BLUE HILL — Got a busted chair, bicycle, earring, sewing machine, food processor, pair of eyeglasses or other utilitarian items that you don’t want to throw out? The Blue Hill Public Library’s Assistant Director Hannah Cyrus has enlisted eight community members possessing practical skills from woodworking to electrical engineering to help people repair and attempt …
MILBRIDGE — Thirty years ago, Sue Hubbell and her German shepherd, Tazzie, climbed into a red Ford F-150 and set out from Washington, D.C., on Route 60 in search of the perfect pie. The pair’s quest, of course, was not just about sampling pies, but exploring our vast country and revealing the landscape and its …
ELLSWORTH — Downtown Ellsworth with be abuzz with creative activity from glass-blowing and green wood-carving to sewing and silversmithing at the second Art of Ellsworth Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 11-14. The festival is being held in synch with Maine Craft Weekend. On and around Main Street, Atlantic Art Glass, SevenArts Gallery, One Woman Studio, (Kōt) Contemporary Craft, …
By Letitia Baldwin PORTLAND — A life-changing teacher who nurtured him and boosted his confidence is how one former student described New Surry Theatre founder Bill Raiten, who received the Maine Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement Friday at the Maine International Conference on the Arts at the University of Southern Maine. The Maine Arts Commission, …
SULLIVAN — You are standing atop a mountain. A sweeping view of wooded islands unfolds below. A brisk breeze blows. Clouds race and billow up. Sailboats are trimmed close to the wind. The sea seems driven every which way. Spruce trees sway on the steep slope. That’s the scene Philip Frey conjures in his oil …
DEER ISLE — Red lentil curry soup, garlicky eggplant and tomato spread, turmeric chicken with sumac and lime and rice with black eye peas and dill were among the Persian dishes flowing onto the dinner table early last month at a cooking class taught by Iranian chef Louisa Shafia at the newly renovated Eggemoggin Schoohouse …
BLUE HILL — Gouldsboro’s Delaney Woodward sang her heart out, winning the first-place prize of $500 at The Grand and the Blue Hill Fair’s joint “Hancock County’s Got Talent!” show staged last Thursday night at the fair. Kiana and Seneca Maddocks-Wilbur of Ellsworth landed second and share a $250 prize while Trudi Clark of Ellsworth …
HANCOCK — Warm applause Monday morning filled the Hancock Grammar School gym, where Sen. Brian Langley (R-Hancock County) presented the 2018 Hancock County Teacher of the Year Jennifer Farnham with a legislative sentiment recognizing officially her work and dedication spanning more than 20 years. The staff and students, numbering 224, Hancock and Lamoine School Superintendent …
MILLINOCKET — Joyous, funny, touching and thought-provoking characterized the nearly 30 middle and high school performances last weekend at the Maine Music Educators Association’s 2018 Maine State Vocal Jazz Festival held at Stearns Junior/Senior High School in Millinocket. Hosted by the Maine Music Educators Association, the festival’s Division 1 State Champion was the Mount Desert …
“The net was nearly full when it came out of the water, a shimmering, writhing mass of finger-sized fish,” reads a passage in “Rolfe Brook Smelt Run,” one of 20 stories in New Hampshire writer Daren Worcester’s “Open Season: True Stories of the Maine Warden Service” (Down East Books, 2017, $16.95). “Nat waited. At the …
EAST SULLIVAN — Mary Welsh was due last month to begin teaching an eight-week drawing class, but the 90-year-old Sullivan artist suffered a stroke and died on Feb. 6 at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth. In the Feb. 10 class, the warm, free-spirited Mary would have put her students at ease and shown them …
BLUE HILL — Seventeen-year-old violinist Brandon Aponte last week was named as the sole musician to represent Maine on the nation’s 2018 National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, which is bound for Asia this coming July. Under the auspices of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Aponte will join 105 other teen musicians …
