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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
A Mainer took refuge in her garden during COVID, then wrote about it
In the understated and evocatively written ‘A Gardener at the End of the World,’ Margot Anne Kelley muses on time, pandemics and plants.
June 30, 1995: Gardiner couple renews 60-year-old wedding vows, Gov. Angus King signs $3.5 million budget, and fourth of July doesn’t mean a holiday for all
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June 29, 1989: Puzzled residents want to fix ‘slipped’ boundary on the Madison-Skowhegan line, Plymouth disaster drill brings surprise, and abortion opponents expect mixed court ruling in Augusta
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Photos: Like father, like daughter, 2 generations run the trails in Augusta
Scout Boudreau was only 19 months old in 2011 when her father completed a 5K trail run at Bond Brook Recreation Area while pushing her in a stroller. This week, she returned to complete the course under her own power.
La Fogata Mexican Restaurant in Skowhegan is off to busy start
The Mexican restaurant at 60 Waterville Road opened about two weeks ago after about four months of floor-to-ceiling renovations to the space.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Fire Exit’ and ‘Art of Penobscot Bay’
A debut novel from a masterful writer, and a magnificent tribute to Maine art
June 28, 1978: Augusta woman accused of firing gun at Gardiner dispatcher & threatening Waterville officer pleads guilty in court, residents come together to help Monmouth theater, and it’s strawberry season at a farm on Rices Rips Road in Waterville
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June 27, 1990: New ‘secret’ way of voting for town of Wayne has some folks up in arms, new state rules will prevent summer cottage conversions, and plans underway for new DMV on Piggery Road in East Augusta
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Movie Review: Jessica Lange reigns as Queen of Broadway in ‘The Great Lillian Hall’
There is a touching scene on a park bench where Lillian’s dead husband (Michael Rose), who has been floating just out of touch in her feverishly apparitions, holds her.