Sage bested 6 other finalists to claim the best in show award at the United States’ most illustrious canine event.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World
Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92
The Canadian author was revered for her thoughtful characters and her ability to ‘accommodate an entire epic complexity …. in just a few short pages.’ She was admired without apparent envy, placed by the likes of Jonathan Franzen, John Updike and Cynthia Ozick at the very top of the pantheon.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Nation & World
There’s bird flu in U.S. dairy cows. Raw milk drinkers aren’t deterred.
The FDA and the U.S. CDC call raw milk one of the ‘riskiest’ foods people can consume.
Posted inOn this date
May 14, 1986: After 15 years in healthcare in central Maine, this Winslow man and his wife are moving to Vienna, Austria, 8th arrest made in Waterville ‘sex ring’ case, and owner of Waterville’s Post Office square threatens legal action in longstanding dispute
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May 13, 1983: Reagan gives Sen. William Cohen a commitment to his ‘build-down’ nuclear arms reaction scheme, finance commissioner says Maine’s fiscal crunch ‘tightest’ in 30 years, and first-in-the-nation elderly housing project coming to Gardiner
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Posted inFood & Dining
Sushi from Yosaku, ajo sauce from Maiz and more: Maine moms’ first bites after giving birth
For Mother’s Day, we talked to experts about the latest nutrition advice for pregnant woman and to moms about what they craved.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
A Bowdoin graduate’s murder shapes the suspense novel ‘The Engagement Party’
In Darby Kane’s higher-order horror/thriller hybrid, six thirtysomethings get stuck on a private island in Maine with a vengeful killer.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Home Plates: Two-for-one dal and rice recipe is her mother’s legacy
Tanuja Desai Hidier’s mother taught her to cook during the pandemic.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Move over, roses. Here’s what you should plant for a fragrant garden
Herbs, lilies and lilacs are among the options.
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May 12, 1995: Cat trapped in lobster trap in Harpswell for three weeks saved from starvation by dog, Waterville paint store owner abruptly flees town permanently, and a buyer is eyeing Sugarloaf/USA as majority owner
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