The wild blue mussel population on the Maine coast has dropped 60% since the 1970s. Experts believe warming waters and increased predation are to blame.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Don’t add to Maine’s food waste problem. Compost your kitchen scraps
The process takes some time but is straightforward.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Seven ways to highlight maple syrup’s savory side
No knock on pancakes with syrup, but here are tips and recipes for using spring’s liquid gold to its fullest potential. Try it in everything from salad dressing to oyster mignonette.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Home Plates: A foolproof bread helped 1 family get through the pandemic
Four years ago, a home cook in Gray added this bread to her repertoire. It’s versatile, fast and ‘generally delicious.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Maine places inspired new novels by 2 Colby professors
‘Discipline’ by Debra Spark and ‘Bad Animals’ by Sarah Braunstein both came out this month. The teaching colleagues are holding a joint book launch event Thursday in Portland.
Posted inOn this date
March 24, 1996: House speaker Newt Gingrich’s sister lobbies for gay rights at Maple Hill Bed and Breakfast in Hallowell, and wheelchair tennis program in Augusta gaining in popularity among its members
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March 23, 2002: Former CMP chief to buy now-defunct MacDonald Footwear Inc. in Skowhegan, supplemental budget wins OK in State House, and a first-class stamp nationwide now at 37 cents
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors, Uncategorized
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Easter Basket Murder’ and ‘Just Up The Road’
Three exciting murder-mystery novellas, and one year of 100 adventures experienced in Maine.
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March 22, 1977: Augusta school bus drivers to ‘air out their complaints’ at special meeting with Augusta Board of Education, new seafood restaurant ‘Jolly Roger’ to open in Augusta, and more than 20 show up to quit smoking at Department of Human Services
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Movie Review: ‘27 Dresses’ is a terrible movie, writes JP Devine
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. How many times have we heard that cliche? It should, by now, be relegated to the embroidered throw pillow in your grandma’s favorite chair. Here then is 2008’s “27 Dresses” directed by Anne Fletcher (“The Proposal” 2009, and “Hocus Pocus 2” 2022.) So why did a humble reviewer agree […]