By Jon Knepp, Thompson Free Library director DOVER-FOXCROFT — Thompson Free Library, located at 186 East Main St.

By Kim Brawn, Thompson Free Library Travel can be life-changing.

ABBOT — Abbot Village Press announces the release of “Memorials, Monuments, and Memories: From Flanders Fields to Main Street America”, a new book by Maine author and essayist Walter Boomsma.

DEXTER — The Wayside Grange & Theatre is pleased to continue the concert series, beginning in May and going right through October.

Partnering for a seventh year with The 1772 Foundation, Maine Preservation recently awarded grants totaling nearly $131,000 to 20 nonprofit organizations in Maine.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Center Theatre for the Performing Arts and Slightly Off-Center Players community theatre group launched their production of “The Sound of Music” on Friday, May 8.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, “Better Together” — the award-winning coming-of-age adventure film that has captured 22 film festival wins — returns to theaters for a limited engagement this May.

MILO — The Milo Garden Club meets next at 1 p.

A viral video of a freestyle canoeist sent to him during the pandemic led Sam Dunning to write a mockumentary comedy movie script about a group of disparate competitors at a fictional national competition set on Moosehead Lake.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – The Center Theatre for the Performing Arts is proud to announce its upcoming production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s beloved classic, “The Sound of Music.

Photo courtesy of Dexter Regional High SchoolOVERALL WINNER — Rowan Browne was the overall winner for Dexter Regional High School of the “Manie Musicale 2026” competition in the French classes.

DOVER FOXCROFT — The Dover Foxcroft Tractor Supply is providing free garden kits to local children to teach the basics of at-home gardening.

By Kim Brawn, Thompson Free Library “Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.

DOVER-FOXCROFT – The Center Theatre announced a special Mother’s Day Photo Shoot fundraiser from 11 a.

GREENVILLE — The town of Greenville will continue to symbolically change its name to a different color to mark Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month in June.

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, The County Staff A roomful of fidgety second graders fell silent when wilderness author Tim Caverly started the ghostly tale of a 150-year-old lumberjacks’ boarding house along the Allagash Wilderness Waterway.

GUILFORD — Valley Grange of Guilford is sponsoring a blanket-making event from 9 a.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Northern Light Mayo Hospital is pleased to announce a free showing of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” at 3:30 p.