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July 14, 2005: Winslow hot dog business owner steamed up vendor ordinance town approved this week, new after school program may open in Fairfield, and Maine International Film Festival to offer two-day screenwriting workshop
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July 13, 1982: 113 new laws enacted today by Maine Legislature, including so-called ‘johns’ law punishing the customers of prostitutes, and out-of-state banks are attracted to Maine
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MIFF Movie Review: ‘Daliland’ is about Dali’s journey down spiraling madness, J.P. Devine writes
Once you’re drawn into viewing Harron’s cinematic kaleidoscopic world of “Daliland,” allow yourself to be transported into the work of one of the film world’s most gifted actors, and that’s really why you’re here, J.P. Devine writes.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘To Woo and To Wed’ and ‘Ghost Town’
A delightfully charming and funny Victorian rom-com, and a complex suspense thriller
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MIFF Movie Review: ‘Goodfellas’ the greatest lasagna of Italians ever, J.P. Devine writes
It’s rumored that Martin hated the title of the book, so Pileggi grudgingly changed it to “Goodfellas,” J.P. Devine writes.
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MIFF Movie Review: ‘Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story,’ who was clever, funny and brilliant
Coward was a genius of his art, a friend, a gentleman, and bright star of darker skies, J.P. Devine writes.
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July 12, 1990: More than 100 firefighters from 7 towns fight blaze at an oil distribution office in downtown Newport, Waterville officials given estimate for Two Cent Bridge repair, and Farmington-area judge drops out of race for district attorney
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MIFF Movie Review: ‘The Ghost Trap’ is about trap war with rival lobstering family
The title is a bit misleading, it’s and not even a documentary about lobster fishing, any more than Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not” is about the boat rental business, J.P. Devine writes.
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Blueberry season is starting locally, looks promising so far
One farm opened Wednesday, another plans to do so Monday.