Sponsored by Pine Tree Hospice and the Maine Humanities Council, this book club offers a wide range of readings that will make you think about the subject of tenderness as you never have before. Join this engaging book club that is facilitated by Greg Winston, a professor of English at Husson University. The group will provide a platform to read different, distinctive works that will fascinate and intrigue. Read, discuss, or feel free just to listen – and enjoy this experience. Members need not attend all events.

Dexter Dover Area Towns in Transition (DDATT) is sponsoring a free artisan bread-making workshop from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 12 at the Universalist Church kitchen on Hall Street.

A near-capacity crowd filled the Center Theatre on May 4 for opening night of “Disney's Lion King Jr.” They were treated to a local all-youth cast performance that brought them to their feet in a standing ovation. The play, directed by Ben Layman with vocal direction by Emily Allen, is a production of the Center Theatre and Slightly Off-Center Players.

Tisbury Manor Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) held its first meeting of the year on April 22. At this meeting Colleen Taylor, left, was awarded her 10-Year Membership Certificate. Taylor served as Tisbury Manor registrar for six years and she is currently the chapter historian.

As you likely already know, the Maine Legislature adjourned in the early morning hours of April 19 with a great deal of work left undone. We returned on Wednesday, May 3 to act on various bills that the Governor had vetoed. That day I voted to extend the session one day to take up some important bills. The vote failed.

Once again the media and the political establishment have anointed who they think should be the candidates, explained to the voters why we should just except their established infallibility, and just embrace the inevitable by voting the way they indicate. So again, it's the same old, same old. Two candidates, who the “powers that be” have foisted upon us, to which we are expected to accept without question.

Is the proposed citizen initiative question legal according to the Maine Constitution?

The Dexter Regional High School boys finished fourth among a field of seven teams during a May 4 meet at Bucksport High School. The Tigers scored 66 points.

On the morning of Saturday, April 28 hundreds of participants took part in the Abbot-based JD Foundation’s third annual 5K Walk/Run to Wake the Silence, raising funds for the organization, honoring those who have died by suicide and supporting survivors and families impacted.

Area youth are invited to a Hooked on Fishing Not Drugs event from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 19 at the (Dover-Foxcroft) Kiwanis Park Pond behind the Piscataquis Regional YMCA -- those stopping by are asked to bring bait and tackle. The session is sponsored by the Maine State Police, Dover-Foxcroft Police Department and Will’s Shop ‘n Save.