NANTUCKET, Mass. — President Biden on Thursday delivered at least half a dozen pumpkin pies to Massachusetts firefighters during a Thanksgiving Day show of appreciation and his toddler grandson walked away with a red fire hat topping his blond curls. “Oh wow,” Biden was heard to say upon seeing Beau Biden, who is nearly 3, emerge from […]
November 2022
Winter holiday celebrations debut Friday in central Maine
Starting Friday, central Maine’s winter holiday season gets underway, bringing lights, parades, gingerbread and Santa.
Runners hit the road in Augusta for the annual Gasping Gobbler 5K
Hudson Delisle finishes with top overall time of 15:52.55.
2022 boys soccer wrap-up: Some central Maine teams encounter postseason success
Winslow falls just short of another Class B title game; Mt. Abram falls to Waynflete in C South final.
High mortgage rates send homebuyers scrambling for relief
As mortgage rates rise, they can add hundreds of dollars to monthly mortgage payments.
Small businesses, and shoppers, return to holiday markets
For some small businesses, the markets are a welcome respite after a punishing couple of years.
After Russian retreat, Ukrainian military plans next move
Two weeks after retreating from the southern city of Kherson, Russia is pounding the territory across the Dnieper River with artillery.
‘The Wonder’ is a miracle of a film
This is the best piece of work you’ll see this year, perhaps any year yet, writes J.P. Devine.
Nov. 24, 1910: Whitefield man drowns in pursuit of deer, ‘aeroplane’ altitude record set, and H.G Barker Co. in Augusta has ‘best models’ of overcoats
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‘Julia’ changed the way America, and possibly the world, looked at food, especially French cuisine
“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” — Julia Child Julia Child was born Julia McWilliams, on Aug. 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California. The eldest of three children, at 6 feet 2 inches, Julia wasn’t the tallest of her siblings. Her sister was 6 feet 4 inches, and her […]