The annual event, organized and put on by the town of Richmond, brought people out to celebrate summer with games, food, music and a dip in the Kennebec River Saturday, after a two-year break.
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Red Cross seeks to visit prison where Ukrainian POWS died
Ukrainian and Russian officials continue to blame each other Saturday for Friday’s deadly rocket attack.
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Federal tourism aid funds gas stations, trash cans, jazz
Hundreds of tourism projects nationwide are collectively getting about $2.4 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding.
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Democrats seem headed for climate, health win after ups and downs
Approval of the Inflation Reduction Act would let President Biden and his party claim a triumph on top priorities as November’s elections approach.
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Local teams wrap up summer with Central Maine Football Skills Challenge
Seven teams compete in “summer sendoff” ahead of hands-off period.
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In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID
Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine could leave millions of people in Africa unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease.
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Pope says he’ll slow down or retire: ‘You can change the pope’
Pope Francis says he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments.
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U.K. inquiry urges immediate payouts to tainted-blood victims
Thousands of hemophiliacs and other hospital patients were infected with HIV or Hepatitis C during the 1970s and ’80s through tainted blood products.
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Video of fatal attack on African immigrant shocks Italy
A man has been arrested in the murder of a Nigerian street vendor whose brutal beating death was filmed by onlookers without any apparent attempt to intervene physically.
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Tennis notebook: Unvaccinated Djokovic still hopes to play at U.S. Open
The United States does not allow unvaccinated noncitizens to enter the country, but Novak Djokovic is holding out hope for some sort of exemption.