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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say
Previous research has documented several species of great apes foraging for medicines in forests to heal themselves, but scientists hadn’t yet seen an animal treat itself in this way.
Author Event: ‘Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the Man Behind the Hero’
Zoom event features award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Ronald C. White.
Author Event: ‘Where Maine Reads’
Maine State Credit Union hosts book-signing event with Buddy Doyle.
Movie Review: ‘No Hard Feelings’ script full of unlikely consequences, TV laughs, J.P. Devine writes
Boy meets girl with a script full of unlikely consequences and TV laughs, which happily won this reviewer over.
May 2, 1997: Town officials in Sidney don’t understand why they can’t have their own post office, Vassalboro Community School must rely on bottled water for drinking temporarily, and a ‘planned’ brush fire in Waterville burned out of control yesterday
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USDA to continue classifying potato as a vegetable, not a grain
The decision comes amid updates to U.S. dietary guidelines that generated pushback from Maine lawmakers.
On Music: Lisa Loeb talks about teaming up with Lyle Lovett for Gardiner concert
Two excellent singer-songwriters are teaming up for what should be an exceptional performance as Lyle Lovett and Lisa Loeb prepare to take the stage at the newly renovated Johnson Hall Opera House at 280 Water St. in Gardiner. As soon as I saw that Ms Loeb was going to be coming back to Maine, I […]
May 1, 1981: Officials investigating ‘scuffle’ at Kennebec County jail involving guard and inmate, new 1981 Augusta budget approved last night has no money for city hall repair work or to build new one, and research work beings at Hatch Hill landfill in Augusta
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Utah cat with a fondness for cardboard takes surprise trip to California in an Amazon box
Double-check your Amazon boxes before returning them.