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Maine’s first Black chamber of commerce takes shape amid mixed reactions

by Kelley Bouchard July 24, 2023July 23, 2023

Joshua Brister, owner of a semipro women’s basketball team, has launched the Maine Black Chamber of Commerce to promote interests of the state’s Black-owned businesses.

Maine, Maine Crime, News

Couple accused in theft from site of Bowdoin shootings also suspected in identity theft operation

by John Terhune July 24, 2023July 24, 2023

A search of the Bowdoin home of Michael J. Hall and Jeanne I. Doughty revealed not only items reported stolen from the site of 4 fatal shootings, but fake checks, fake IDs and a list of more than a dozen stolen identities.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Commentary: ‘Oppenheimer’ is here. Is Hollywood still afraid of the truth about the atomic bomb?

by Greg Mitchell Los Angeles Times (TNS) July 24, 2023July 21, 2023

In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less). Yet for over seven decades, only two other major movie dramas about this epochal event emerged from a studio. Now that […]

Business, Maine, News, Politics

Millions of dollars in foreign campaign funds pour into Maine as lawmakers push to ban them

by Randy Billings July 24, 2023July 24, 2023

Lawmakers say they will try to override Gov. Janet Mills’ veto of the foreign spending ban, but it won’t prevent foreign-owned companies from pouring money into Maine politics this fall.

On this date

July 24, 1999: After 25 years, the Hi-Hat Drive-In continues to survive and thrive in Farmingdale, low Kennebec River dries out fire hydrant that services three local businesses in Augusta, and driver says he did nothing wrong in Stephen King accident last month in western Maine

July 24, 2023July 21, 2023

Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.

Community, Kennebec Journal

Whitefield plans Fourth of July parade, festivities

July 24, 2023June 22, 2023

The Whitefield Fourth of July parade is set to start at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 4. Participants should gather at 9:30 a.m. on Route 194. The parade winds down Route 194 in Kings Mills, which is part of Whitefield, to the turnaround in a neighbor’s driveway. where floats and firetrucks make the turn to end […]