Life & Culture

Back in February I chatted with a couple of comedians, Mark Turcotte and Tuck Tucker, and really enjoyed it, and with the way the world is swirling around, I figure that laughter is something we all need right now. So I contacted a gentleman I talked with a couple of years ago to get another […]

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April 4, 1988: First Maine caribou of 1988 to be named after town of Canaan, committee in Fairfield to study use of $1.9 million ‘nest egg’, and 250 ‘youthful minds’ in China explained their inventions to audiences at a convention recently

Comedian Juston McKinney always working on new material

April 3, 1991: Is a cruise line coming to the Kennebec River as early as next month? Also, we meet a couple of students holding down jobs while still in high school

April 2, 2004: No decision yet on merger of MaineGeneral Health’s Waterville and Augusta hospitals into one facility, possibly in Sidney, and 2 former executives at Maine Biological Laboratories plead guilty to trying to smuggle chicken virus into country from Saudi Arabia

Julia Gagnon of Cumberland secures top 24 spot on ‘American Idol’

April 1, 1975: Waterville man fired from Augusta Mental Health Institute following his conviction of rape & sodomy, Maine Supreme Court allows forest excise tax, and Gov. James Longley appears to be winning the battle of the budget

Washington County libraries are preparing for the future

Anniversary milestone for the guy with the greenest thumb around

March 31, 1996: Hundreds pay respects to Maine elder statesmen Edmund Muskie in Arlington, Va., GOP & Democrats hoping issues won in Augusta help them in election, and Augusta & Waterville emergency rooms aren’t what you see on TV’s ‘ER’

March 30, 1988: Former teller at Key Bank at Turnpike Mall in Augusta accused of stealing $10,000 from bank, discussions about Belgrade’s landfill to come, and striking International Paper workers protest exclusion from mill inspection in Augusta