Director Cynthia Jennings of the Stewart Free Library in Corinna reports there are lots of activities planned for community members this holiday season.

For example, throughout the day Friday, Dec. 1, pupils from Corinna Elementary School will visit the library to decorate the balsam fir donated by Finestkind Tree Farm in Dover-Foxcroft. While there, they will tour the library and hear holiday stories.

Caroling, cookies and punch are all part of the annual Tree Lighting led by Cub Scout Pack 65 at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at the library.

At 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, and again at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, you can enjoy the Levi Stewart Community Theater Holiday Show presentation, “A Storybook Christmas.”

Tickets are $6 and will be available at the door.

Jennings also is happy to report that the 195th Army National Guard Band will return for a Holiday Concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at the library.

The concert features the 195th Woodwind Ensemble and Brass Quintet, and refreshments provided by the Corinna Literary Club.

A bonfire and sleigh rides, beginning at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, greets Santa Claus when he comes to town and later, if you wish, you can participate in a Central Maine Trailblazers ATV Club lighted ride-in at 6 p.m.

Finally, Jennings urges those who decorate their homes for the holidays to enter the library’s Christmas lighting contest, which runs throughout December.

For more information about an opportunity to be a Christmas lighting prize winner, call the Corinna town office, 278-4183.

Tickets are still available for the Kruger Brothers concert to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, at the Bangor Opera House on Main Street.

Proceeds from this performance, which is a preamble to a June world premiere event featuring the Kruger Brothers and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra at Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, benefit the BSO’s education outreach program.

Tickets for Thursday’s concert are $20 for adults and $8 for youths and can be ordered online at penobscottheatre.org or by calling the theater at 942-3333.

The Mount View Chamber Singers, directed by David Stevenson, present Carols in the Round at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at Hampden Highlands United Methodist Church.

Jackie Frisk reports the group is composed of 16 students from Mount View High School in Thorndike “who are chosen by competitive audition” and sing “a cappella music of all ages, languages and genres.”

Carols in the Round is a candlelight concert with the singers encircling the audience.

The public is invited. An offering will be taken to help with the group’s expenses, and CDs of the singers’ music will be for sale.

The singers have performed at Winchester Cathedral in England, the Crystal Cathedral in California and the White House, and spent a week in El Salvador where they appeared on national television.

Now through Sunday, Dec. 24, volunteers are participating in the American Red Cross Pine Tree Chapter’s 16th annual Holiday Gift Wrapping Booth at the Bangor Mall.

Volunteers are needed to staff the booth and wrap gifts for the program sponsored by the Bangor Mall and Northeast Cardiology Associates.

Working in three- or four-hour shifts, volunteers wrap for what chapter organizer Hillary Roberts describes as “a great cause: The Pine Tree Chapter’s disaster and emergency services program to help local fire and flood victims.”

She suggests you “bring your partner or a group of friends” to volunteer with you, making it a fun and fulfilling effort.

“We can work out a day and time that works for you,” she said.

To reserve your gift-wrapping shift, call Roberts at 941-2903.

Ann Carter of Charlotte hopes folks will support the Pembroke Historical Society’s annual Craft Fair, which is 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at Pembroke School on Route 1.

Former building contractor and Bangor businessman Richard Fye, 52, of Glenburn is at home after being hospitalized with complications of bypass surgery.

Additionally, he recently was rediagnosed with a recurrence of melanoma that has been in remission for seven years and is undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

Hearing from old and new friends would be a great boost to his spirits at this time.

Cards and letters of encouragement can be sent to Fye, who owned Eastside Market in Bangor, at P.O. Box 7011, Glenburn 04401.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.